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Unit 17: District Primary Education Programme

17.5 Major Achievements of DPEP Notes

(i) DPEP has so far opened more than 1,60,000 new schools, including almost 84,000 alternative
schooling (AS) centres. The AS centres cover nearly 3.5 million children, while another
two lakh children are covered by Bridge Courses of different types;
(ii) The school infrastructure created under DPEP has been remarkable. Works either complete
or in progress include 52758 school buildings, 58,604 additional classrooms, 16,619 resource
centers, 29,307 repair works, 64,592 toilets, and 24,909 drinking water facilities,
(iii) The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) for Phase-I states was around 93 to 95 per cent for the
last three years. After the adjustment for the Alternative Schools/Education Guarantee
Centers enrolment, the GER in the 2001-02 works out above 100 per cent. In the districts
covered under subsequent phases of DPEP, the GER including enrolment of AS/EGS was
above 85 per cent;
(iv) The enrolment of girls has shown significant improvement. In DPEP-I districts, the share
of girls enrolment in relation to total enrolment has increased from 48 per cent to 49 per
cent, while this increase in the subsequent phases of DPEP districts has been from 46 per
cent to 47 per cent;
(v) The total number of differently bled children enrolled is now more than 4,20,203 which
represents almost 76 per cent of the nearly 5,53,844 differently-abled children identified in
the DPEP States;
(vi) Village Education Committees/School Management Committees have been setup in almost
all project villages/habitations/schools,
(vii) About 1,77,000 teachers, including para-teachers/Shiksha Karmis have been appointed;
(viii) About 3,380 resource centers at block level and 29,725 centers at cluster level have been
set-up for providing academic support and teacher training facilities.
Self Assessment
2. State whether the following statements one ‘True’ or ‘False’:
(i) Mobilization, participation and school effectiveness are cardinal elements of the
programme.
(ii) The framework of the DPEP programme envisages initiating and completing the process
of planning first at the state level.
(iii) The district plans are generally seen as a process of region alisation of national and state
plans.
(iv) Village education committees/school management committees have not been setup in
all project villages/habitations schools.
(v) Grad completion rate (GCR) is an indicator of school efficiency.

17.6 Summary

• In this unit we have discussed about District Primary Education Programme in wide
aspect. We will look the whole unit in a quick glance. Distric Primary Education Programme
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.
• The objectives of the programme are: (i) to provide access to all children to primary
education through formal primary schools or its equivalent through alternatives; (ii) to
reduce overall dropouts at the primary level less than 10 percent; (iii) to increase

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