Baran – Rajasthan

District Profile 2

Learning Level as per NAS NER Literacy Rate Others

National Rajasthan Baran
74 74 Pupil Teacher Ratio
66 67 67 87.77% 67.48% 20:01
62
58
55
49
100% School have Girls
Toilets 1218/1218

School have Electricity

100%
91 65 School have safe
drinking water facility
100%
3rd 5th 8th Primary Upper Primary (932/932)
District Prabhari from Central Government - Mr. Yaduvendra Madhur District Prabhari from State Government - Mr. Rohit Kumar

Delta Rank (May’18) - 29 Delta Rank (Jan’19) - 6

Human Resource Vacancy
• DIET: 67% (14 posts) are vacant
• Teachers: 1047 teachers have applied for
transfers in their home districts
Poor Teacher Training & Coaching
• 67% of trainings planned were executed
• 50% teacher attendance in trainings
• Teacher Cluster meetings are focused on
information exchange
Social & Geographical challenges
• Migration: 200+ students of 4 villages in
Chipabarod block migrate for 3 months
• Tribal population: 37% “Sahriya” population
in Shahbad and Kisanganj migrate 4 months

*Data Source: U-DISE 2016 – 17, NAS 2017, NITI Aayog Statistics, 20-day District Diagnosis sprint
Delta Ranking
 Block Profile BARAN, RAJASTHAN 4

Blocks Shahbad, Kisanganj and Chipabarod accounts for 47% of schools and enrolment and needs special attention to
improve district’s scenario.

Shahbad
166 SCHOOLS
Secondary enrolment
125 SCHOOLS Kishanganj dropped by 320, while
Anta primary improved
Baran
175 SCHOOLS
196 SCHOOLS Low Learning Outcome:
4500+ students in D and E
category in 7 weekly test

Atru
148 SCHOOLS

Primary enrolment dropped by 660 Chhabra

Primary enrolment dropped by
and 129 in last 2 years
197 SCHOOLS 52 and 294 in last 2 years
Low Learning Outcome: 3500+ Chippabarod
Low Learning Outcome:
students in D and E category in 3600+ students in D and E
211 SCHOOLS
last 7 weekly test category in last 7 weekly test
 Piramal Foundation in Aspirational Districts -Baran Rajasthan
District Transformation program aims to improve student learning outcome and enrolment in Govt. schools by aligning
stakeholders, developing facilitators & coaches and improving critical processes over 4 years

To improve Student Learning Outcomes and Enrolment

District team Action Strategy

Develop
Alignment Improve
Network of
100+ 15+
2500+
stakeholders Critical
Volunteer
& officials Processes
Network

• To improve enrolment • To create learning enviourment • To transform school/classrooms

• To develop shared vision • To improve school process • To improve child services
• To execute change initiatives • To improve school readiness

*Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership

Baran mitigated challenges by adopting innovative steps such as leveraging DIET , Alignment and Creating Volunteer network (For developing
child centric eco system )and strengthening ties with other district leaders to maximize impact from available time
Socio – Economic -
Political
• Election diverted focus
• Migration
Geographic
• Low attendance of vulnerable
block students
• Lack of awareness for
education
Education Administrative
• NITI as driver causing fear
• Deficiency in DIET faculty
Challenge Mitigation
• District leadership was involved in organizing
Engaged with second line
elections which restricted the accessibility to officials
officials and involved 2500+
• Agriculture is base of the district economics. Flood is
youth volunteers to deliver
common problem and due to this tribes migrate from and create awareness
the district.
• First generation learners from red zone block were Leveraged Local NGO and
not coming to school as they did not see value in sharia communities to
doing so improve school system.
• Low transition ratio in red zone blocks and learners do Developed network of 2500
not retain after enrolment. volunteers (NYK/ Scout/Bed
& STC intern)
• Officials viewed PFEL as an extension of NITI here for Maintained regular
monitoring and evaluation which resulted in rigidness review. Co created
for in implementation of interventions implementation solutions.
• Due to lack of available manpower DIET performs only Leveraged DIET to select
50 percent of actions with low attendance and due to cadre of coaches &
this DIET ranking is very low. facilitators
 District Stakeholders
Stakeholders initial Shift in stakeholders
behaviour and approach Actions
Meetings behaviour and approach
towards PFEL taken
towards PFEL
Central • Viewed us as a developing partner Planned an • Regular updates lead to official asking to
but never tried to inquire about our 2
Prabhari interventions.
exhibition know more about our interventions.

District • Initially, he was not ready to give us Fortnightly / • Aligned with PF. Welcome us and view as a
Collector time and was sceptical about our 40 Monthly update expert partner on education in the district.
program. and idea sharing

CDEO • Views us as monitoring organisation Report sharing,

• Enthusiastic. View us as strategic partner
who can report to senior officers is 25 meetings, joint
and consult us before any critical meeting.
state and Niti Ayog visits.

• Weekly •
DEEO Perceived us as monitoring
60 meetings, Joint
Trusting our team and view us as a team
organization who can report to senior of passionate, confident and expert
officers in state and Niti Ayog Visits, people . Engage in regular discussion
• Perceived us as monitoring Influence to
ADPC organization who can report to senior 40 own enrolment • View us as asset to the district and play
campaign role of spokesperson for our work
officers in state and Niti Ayog
• Influence DIET to • View us as advance partner. Takes actions
DIET principal He was supportive from the start and
65 own Library and introduces new ideas and tries to
was always nice to us, but did not
Campaign implement them on the ground.
take decisions for any new initiatives.
 Phase 1 – Jan Andolan 2018-19 2017-18

New Enrolment 169247 147545

Increase in Enrolment 14.70% 6%

People Participated 10000+ 0
Photo 1
Officials aligned on DTR 30+ 0
Officials aligned on BTR 10+ 0

Best Practices

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Best Practices
 Phase 2 – Interventions

Achieved vs Percentage
Best Practice
Targets Completed

Total 210 Demo school (30 per block) selected after 2 rounds
Demo Schools 210/200 105% of meetings at block & district level
SLO Baseline conducted by using EI tool in 67 sample schools

BaLA 50/50 100% Developing awareness for print rich in schools among district
and block level stake holders

Capacity building Workshop with 228 librarians and incharge

Library 570/285 200% with support of DIET
Developed “Apna Pustkalaya “ module

STR 850/1218 Workshop with 221 PEEO for understanding on STR

69.78%
Successfully launched STR format in schools on 15th Aug

B.Ed & D.Ed Capacity building Workshop with 800 interns and align them on
interns 865/1000 86.05%
4 school processes.

Capacity Building- Capacity building Workshop for 271 coaches (PEEO’s) on Niti
271/200 135.05%
Coaches indicators, OCA, roles and responsibilities.
 Library

Establishing Libraries

Challenge
• Poor infrastructure, lack of rooms
• Non availability of books
• No library period allotted in timetable
• No librarian posted in schools
Intervention
• Problem Identification followed by several individual meetings and alignment workshop with DIET
officials was conducted.
• Joint Meeting with DIET officials, District administration and other education stake holders.
• Developing detailed plan of launching library campaign in ownership of DIET.
• Selection of Library campaign “District Prabhari” from DIET.
• Several meetings followed by follow-ups regarding library campaign and library module writing were
scheduled.
• Providing ownership to DIET for running Library campaign, building active library module and
conducting workshops around leveraging library to the best.

Outcome
• DIET conducted capacity building workshop for 228 librarians
• DIET launces module on effective library
• Task force of 40 librarians formed, district officials conducted joint visits
• 560 schools equipped with functional library
• 500 teachers trained for enabling functional libraries
 B.Ed. Intern Orientation
Challenge
• Shortage of teachers in schools
• Large number of Internship candidates go to school without any orientation and plan

Intervention
Aligning the idea with district authorities to plan one day orientation of the interns
Planning and executing the orientation with interns across all blocks

Outcome

Orientation of interns conducted in Baran ,Shahbad, Kishanganj, Chipabarod , Chabra ,Ataru and
Chipabarod blocks
A total of 737 B.Ed./BSTC future educators interns attended the workshop.

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250 190 198

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 Volunteerer Orientation

Challenge
• First generation learners from red zone block were not coming to school as they did not see value
in doing so
• Low transition ratio in red zone blocks and learners do not retain after enrolment.

Intervention
Leveraged Local NGO and sharia communities to improve school system.
Developed network of 2500 volunteers (NYK/ Scout/Bed & STC intern)

Outcome

• Conducted workshop with 100 NYK youth from Kishanganj & Shahbad block to align with
attendance campaign and create community awareness.
• Conducted workshop with 200 Scout Volunteer Kishanganj & Shahbad block to align with
attendance campaign and create community awareness.
• Conducted workshop with 259 tribal youth from Kishanganj & Shahbad block to align with
attendance campaign and create community awareness.
• Engagement/ Orientation with 400 SHG women to leverage them to improve enrolment,
attendance & create awareness in community and establish them as a support system for Govt.
schools
 A Step towards large success

Transforming DIET –Role of Leading Institute -DIET, [Baran] Rajasthan

Challenge
DIET and its officers were not active part of education system. District administration and Education
stake holders consider DIET as inactive and unproductive department. District stake holders had a
mind-set that DIET officers do not perform duties assigned to them.

Intervention
• Problem Identification followed by several individual meetings and alignment workshop with DIET
officials was conducted.
• Joint Meeting with DIET officials, District administration and other education stake holders.
• Developing detailed plan of launching library campaign in ownership of DIET.
• Selection of Library campaign “District Prabhari” from DIET.
• Several meetings followed by follow-ups regarding library campaign and library module writing were
scheduled.
• Providing ownership to DIET for running Library campaign, building active library module and
conducting workshops around leveraging library to the best.

Outcome
DIET has overcome with its negative image and come up with active, Productive leading institute
image in the district. PEEO and Teachers started taking active participation in DIET workshops and
training programs and till now DIET has actively established 560 functional libraries in the schools
within the district and they are highly motivated and committed to actively established functional
libraries in 70% schools within the district by 26th January, 2019
 Conducted diagnostic study , Aligned middle manager, launched Jan Andolan and identified education
intervention to improve educational indicators in the district.

Preparatory Phase Action phase Education intervention

Aligned multiple stakeholders Launched Library campaign and Identify 6 key Intervention
and create excitement through Co created School Transformation to improve learning
large scale events. Initiated Roadmap with community outcomes and Transition
Enrolment drive members rate.
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53 Jun 41 July 31 Aug 01 Sept 01 Oct 01 Nov

Alignment Phase Generating Momentum Super action phase

Aligned Middle managers, and Conducted youth volunteers Created School Transformation
Created District Transformation workshops, Generated 2500+ roadmap in 65% schools, setup
Roadmap with District youth/Scout/NYK volunteers. library in 572 schools, BaLA in
Administration Librarian workshop 50 schools .Selected 210
schools Demonstrative school
 Next 6 month Strategy
Strategy Processes Intervention Plan of Action

Alignment with 50 NGO and 20 Media Houses to

Enhance Ecosystem Alignment for Demo developed child centric eco system and awareness
Andolan

school Innervation within the district

Jan

Attendance Capacity Building of 300 SMC members to improve

Momentum
improvement student attendance
creation

100 facilitators will be trained on SIQE ,NCF, School

Development

Teacher training Facilitator selection

Manager

processes to lead teacher development in the district

Middle

Teacher coaching Workshops with DIET with total number 800 of teachers
Coach Development on SIQE

Establishing library in rest 570 Schools, establishing

Bala in selected 210 schools and joyful corner in 100
Establish Library & BaLA
Improvement

School readiness Anganwadi centres to improve enrolment attendance

Process

and transition

School transformation 1000 Schools will created School Transformation

District Readiness roadmap Roadmap for 1 year
 OCA Roll Out- Coaches capacity Buiding workshop

Conducted capacity Building workshop of PEEO (Coaches)to create sustainable learning enviourment and its effect on learning outcome

271 PEEO/HM Participate in Workshop

PEEO Workshop Attendance Capacity Building On Processes
Chhipabarod-Chhbda
97.10% 67
69 OCA
Growth (learning NVC LAP
mindset Channels)
96.61%
57
Anta
59

94.66% 71
Kishanganj-Shahbad
75

92.68%
76
Baran-Ataru
82

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 Developing BALA-Building As Learning Add

Developing BALA (building as learning Add ) to develop learning enviourment in schools and its effect on learning outcome

Initiative Taken By DM and Principal Secondary school-Bohat (Anta)

 BAL SABHA

Establishing BAL-SABAHA Culture in Schools to provide platform to students and developing Leadership skills

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Week-1
16th February- 2019 23rd February-2019
9 February 2018
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 District level Strategic Planning and Review Meeting
Establishing District level weekly DM –Piramal team and education stakeholders Review meeting culture in district to plan and review
innervations
Joint review  meeting DM :- Baran district have established weekly joint meeting process with DM and Department stake
holders.DM. This month 4 review meeting were conducted.
Key insights
 
 Community Radio and Discussion on deployment of funds for Community Radio. Key highlight of meeting was that Baran is going
to establish community radio in the district. Process of establishing community radio centres have been discussed in the
meeting.  15 lacs coasting of each centre is identified by administration out of which DM will deploy 7.5 lacs rupees from his fund
and rest will be deployed by CSR Partner (NTPC) for each centre.
 DM sir requested our team to conduct surprise visit in random schools and prepare report on NITI indicators status As Our team
has conducted visit in 30 schools and report submitted to DM
 Discussion on BALA initiative.DM sir suggested to develop guide line for BALA and to select 2-4 schools from demo schools to
initiate BALA .Our team submitted the list and guide line.DM sir is ready to deploy funds from source of panchayat and CSR for
BALA
 DM sir took initiative to write letter to Sectary education for deploying funds for library in elementary setup schools.

Glimpses of Review meeting

Glimpses of media coverage 20