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Development of Education System Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 17: District Primary Education Programme

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
17.1 District Primary Education Programme
17.2 Objectives of DPEP
17.3 Features of DPEP
17.4 Management Structure of DPEP
17.5 Major Achievements of DPEP
17.6 Summary
17.7 Keywords
17.8 Review Questions
17.9 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to discuss about the district primary education programme (DPEP).
• to discuss about the objectives of DPEP.
• to describe about Features of DPEP.
• to explain about Management structure of DPEP.
• to discuss about Major achievements of DPEP.

Introduction

DPEP is a programme conceptualized and evolved on the basis of varied experiences the country
possesses and supplemented by the experiences of various international agencies directly
involved in the funding of primary education projects in the developing countries. Over a
period of time, the sources of funding got diversified and the approaches to plan primary
education and to the DPEP became more specific concrete and unified.
The DPEP is an attempt to initiate a process of planning from below. The framework of the
programme envisages initiating and completing the process of planning first at the district
level. The state level intervention strategies and plans are meant to facilitate the successful
implementation of the district plans. It can be seen that looking at linkages between state and
district plans in this framework changes the relative roles to be played by agencies at different
levels. This process of planning ensures that state plans cannot be prepared unless and until the
district plans are complete and the state level plans are nothing but efforts to achieve district
level targets.

17.1 District Primary Education Programme

Right to Education provide the Centrally-Sponsored Scheme of District Primary Education
Programme (DPEP) was launched in 1994 as a major initiative to revitalise the primary education
system and to achieve the objective of universalisation of primary education.
DPEP is an externally aided project. 85 per cent of the project cost is met by the Central
Government and the remaining 15 per cent is shared by the concerned State Government. The
Central Government share is resourced through external assistance.

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