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- Government of Madhya Pradesh made a radical break and promoted the Education Guarantee Scheme in 1997 to reach primary school facility to every child in the State.
- It is an effort at community-centered and rights-based education to provide primary education to all children in a quick and time-bound manner.
- Under EGS, the Government gives a guarantee to provide a primary schooling facility to the children in a habitation where there is no such facility within a kilometer within a period of 90 days of receiving a demand for such a facility by the local community.
- It operates on a decentralised basis through collaboration of the state government, local body/panchayat and the community.
The EGS created a three way partnership to ensure the right to primary education:
Community
- Raises demand
- Identifies local resident to be guruji/teacher
- Provides startup space for school
Local Government (Panchayat)
- Appoints teacher
- Oversees school functioning
The State Government
- Supports the school through grant for teacher's salary
- Arrange training of teacher
- Provides teaching-learning material
- Academic supervision
- Provides all inputs for quality
- EGS gives children a school on demand.
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Government, Local Government, Community and You!
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Created a primary schooling facility in every habitation of the State
through a partnering of state government, local government (panchayat)
and the community between 1997-1998.
- Reached out to the unreached in the quickest possible time.
- Demand-based, time-bound strategy to universalise access demonstrated.
- Now in Madhya Pradesh "any community without a primary schooling
facility within 1 km. and with 25 children can demand schooling facility
and the Government guarantees to provide it within 90 days".
- A new paradigm of community-centered primary education in a rights-based
framework has been operationalised.
- The fact that 40 primary schools opened every day of 1997 showed
the demand that existed.
- Madhya Pradesh reached a facility to every habitation by August
1998.
- Eliminated historical backlog in 18 months at one-third cost.
- Not just physical access provided. But access for social equity.
- Target group consists mainly of scheduled tribes (indigenous people)
and girl children.
- EGS has become a national model for community based primary education
in India.
- It won the first Commonwealth
International Innovation Award for Public Service of CAPAM in 1998.
 
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