ASER Manipur 2008

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ASER 2008 Manipur
- Annual Status of Education Report -

Material By:- Deepak Shijagurumayum *

I've attended the ASER MANIPUR 2008 discusssion at Hotel Christina, Poana Bazaar. So, I'll be very thankful if it is possible to upload those files which I have attached in this email. Because I want all the Manipuris to know the literacy rate of Manipur.

Deepak Shijagurumayum

Download Materials:

Annual Status Of Education Report (ASER) 2008 Manipur RURAL here (PDF 709 KB)
ASER 2008 Manipur Powerpoint Presentation here (PPT 1.3 MB - You will need to have Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation s/w to view this)
(if you do not have Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation s/w ) - download the PDF version of this presentation here (PDF -400 KB).
A press release docket for this presentation here (PDF 68 KB)

ASER 2008 Manipur

Every Indian citizen pays 3% educational cess towards the univerlization of the elementary education in the country. Therefore, it's our citizen's rights and responsibility to know how our children are /learning in the schools or how our money is being utilized.

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a unique large scale effort undertaken by citizens of India to understand and to help in improving the status of elementary education in the country. ASER is an annual effort. It will go on until December 2010 - the deadline for achieving quality universal elementary education as declared by Government of India.

ASER MANIPUR 2008 is conducted by the people of Manipur with the help of ASER Centre ( Assessment Survey Evaluation Research), New Delhi, which is facilitated by PRATHAM
Dedicated volunteers (NGOs, Institute/Individual) carried out the survey in their respective districts last year.
Coverage: All 9 districts, 223 Villages, 5232 households and 11046 (age 3-16) children in the state.

Some of the key findings in ASER 2008 are given below.

With 40.3% of 3-4age children, Pre school enrollment in the state is very low. Proper attention should be emphases to sure none of the child in that age group are being neglected from the educational privilege.
With 63.7% of children (6-14age) more than half the children in the state are enrolled in Private school.
2.6% of children (Age 6-14) are out of school in Manipur. In India as a whole the drop out rate is 4.3% for age group 6-14.
96.7% of children in Std 1-2 could read letters, words or more. Manipur occupies 3rd placed on the national chart.
19.7% of children in Std 3-5 can not read Std 1 level text. Mizoram is higher than Manipur by 6.9% point.
19.8% of children in Std 3-5 are not able to do subtraction or more. In India, the percentage of children in Std 3-5 who could not do subtraction or more is 45.1%.
In Std 3-5, 36.7% of children cannot tell time of both clocks and 9.7% of children in Std 3-5 cannot solve currency task or currency related question.

Contact: ASER2008 team at 011-26716084/46023612
Email : [email protected]
Address : ASER Centre
B4/54, Safdarjang Enclave, New Delhi 110029

*** ASER 2005, ASER 2006 & ASER 2007 REPORTS in full detail are available on www.pratham.org.
Each report carries lists of district partners and supporters. Also see the ASER Discussion Series on the same website. All donations to ASER are tax-deductible.

* Deepak Shijagurumayum(An Engineering student) contributes regularly to e-pao.net . He can be contacted at deepak_korn111(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in
This article was webcasted at e-pao.net on 02nd June 2009.

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