Guidelines

DISTRICT BACKGROUND AND PROFILE

1 Introduction

Malappuram is a phase 1 district in the implementation of District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in Kerala.   It deserves the credit of successful implementations of all the interventions conceived in the project.  90% of the total outlay of EFC cost has already been utilised so far is an indicator of the achievements.  Planned activities under civil work components have achieved 100%.  Generally,  in the field of enrolment & retention the goals arrived at have been more or less achieved, especially enrolment and retention of girl children.  District has made a major leap forward in the area of community involvement in primary education. With proud and pleasure this district can claim the very many success stories of convergence.  The Grama Panchayaths are voluntarily taking the initiatives for incorporating Primary Education Programmes in their annual plans.

 Trends indicate that the renewal process launched by the project in Primary sector has made a vitalising impact in initiating such changes in preprimary and upper primary,  which are the two ends of Primary sector.  In short, the project succeeded in making primary sector is a major agenda of the public with wide acceptance.

2. District Profile

The Malappuram District which was formed in 1969 is the largest populated district in Kerala comprising an area of 3550 Sq.Kms.  According to 1991 census the total population of the District is 3096330. The Sex ratio is 1054 female to 1000 males.  The district is a Muslim dominated area and is renowned for its social amity and religious harmony.   The total population of SC and ST are 8.3 and 0.34 percent respectively.  The total literacy is 71.9% and female literacy is 69.48%.  As many as 295558 pupils are studying in 1102 schools.  There are 100 panchayath and 5 Muncipalities, comprising two Edl. District i.e., Malappuram and Tirur.  There are 765 primary schools having std. I to IV  61 schools having std 1 to V , 249 schools having std 1 to VII and 22 schools having std 1 to X .  In addition to the above 10 MGLCs have been opened mostly in tribal areas and 237 children are admitted in these centres.  10 schools have been started functioning in 1995-96 under Area intensive of centrally sponsored schemes.

There are 8 un-aided schools.  3 types of Pre primary schools namely Anganwadies run by social welfare Dept, Pre-primary schools, attached to Govt Primary schools and run recognised  nursery schools managed by private agencies are functioning.  16 nos of Alternate schools have been opened during 99-2000 in order to enrol the pupils between the age group of 6 to 14 who have not enrolled in other schools.  There are 17 sub districts as follows.

Total no of teachers in primary school is 9770.  Though 24% of the project cost have been spent for civil works a considerable no of schools in the District are still lacking accommodation facilities.  There are 15 BRCs and 225 CRCs, VECs are functioning effectively in 101 panchayaths and 5 Muncipalities.

The Block wise no of pupils , teachers, CRCs and VECs are mentioned below

Malappuram District at a Glance

Table- 1 B

Enrolment of children  - All communities

 Table- 2

Percentage of Girls Enrolment in Primary

 Table- 3 A

Enrolment of SC Children in Primary in Std I to IV

 Table- 3 B

Enrolment of ST Children in Primary in Std I to IV

  Table- 4

Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR)

  Table- 5

Repetition Rate in Primary Classes

B=Boys,  G=Girls

Table - 6

Enrolment of Status of MGLC and AS of ST Children  2000-2001

3.  Administrative Strengths & Constraints

Before the introduction of the Project the PTAs were functioning only for namesake in almost all schools.  Now the PTA/MTA in all the schools have been made fully functional and they are taking  a keen interest in the welfare of the schools as a self-managing system.  The SSGs also have a key role in carrying out and monitoring the school level activities.  Apart from this the SRGs are entrusted with the duties of looking into the academic activities of the school. There are 225 CRCs in the District.  One of the CRC heads is holding the charge of VEC secretary. There are 15 BRCs under the administrative control of Dist. Project Co-ordinator.  These BRCs are the main nerve centres  for providing Training to teachers.

  In order to assist the BRC co-ordinator for academic support one DIET faculty member is disignated as Academic co-ordinator and deployed in each BRC.  The BRC staff includes  trainers, I clerk and 1 Peon also.  There is a Block Advisory Board in each BRCs headed by Block Panchayath President as chairman.  There is a Block level monitoring cell.  There is shortage of trainers which is a major hindrance for rendering OSS.

 ¨      The delay in the flow of fund for the state has created certain lags in the implementation of different programmes time boundly.

¨      The existing project vehicles are being utilised for other purposes by the District authorities has hindrance the regular monitoring programme.

¨      The loss of actual working days of schools due to many reasons have presented the successful implimentation of pedagogical initiatives.

 The Dist, Project Office is functioning at Down Hill, Malappuram  adjacent to DDE Office Malappuram with 24 staff.  The details of sanctioned posts and staff position are given in Table 1 appended. The clerks in the Dept. are seems reluctant to come over on deputation .

  There is a District Advisory Board and District Implimentation Committee headed by District Panchayath President and Dstrict Collector as chairman respectively.

Planning  Process

DPEP  is a quality improvement programme in primary education targeted to be realised in a fixed time period. After the project period, the schools should be made able to continue and improve their own initiative and efforts. So our vision about the process of annual plan preparation is to make effective schools in all aspects hence we adopted a participatory planning process for developing the fresh plan for the following year.

 The planning process was done in two phases,

 Phase1 -  Preparing the ground