Public Provisioning for Elementary Education in India

This book analyses the magnitude of public expenditure on education, the composition of such expenditure, the flow of funds from the Centre to the districts, and the bottlenecks in the process, with a focus on elementary education. Most of the existing body of work in this area concentrates on Central Government's budgetary provisions instead. The significance of this research lies in that it dwells on the major challenges confronting the States with regard to these issues.

Praveen Jha is a faculty member of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Subrat Das is Research Scholar at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharal Nehru University, New Delhi Siba Sankar Mohanty is Research Officer at the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi Nandan Kumar Jha is pursuing his doctoral studies in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA)