DECENTRALISATION OF MANAGEMENT
 

fr. Louis xavier, national. Secretary, jesuit educational association of india, sterling road, nungambakkam, madras (9.11.1990)

- our past experience of bringing educational institutions under such non-academic agencies as panchayati raj institutions/local bodies has not been a happy one. The jurisdiction of such agencies had led to politicisation of the administration and the academic community and the institutionalisation of corruption. It is more desirable that "the education complexes" should evolve their own internal auditing and monitoring systems with appropriate checks and counter-checks.

- Freedom of institutions to experiment and innovate at different levels is a "must" for implementing the reforms suggested in the paper.

Dr. V.e. Moray, advocate, supreme court, "maduban", g-19/4, dlf qutab enclave phase-I, gurgaon (12.11.1990)

- education should be left to local bodies alone. At district and state levels there should be supervisory bodies.

- There should be an apex body at the national. Level to coordinate the activities of organisations like ncert, niepa, ugc etc.

- A statutory national commission for education should be established.

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Dr. S.n. Tripathi, secretary, teachers association, ajitmal, etawa (u.p)

- private management in higher education should be abolished. The system of autonomous colleges should also be abolished. The management of universities and colleges should be democratised. The recommendations of the gnanam committee regarding management of colleges and universities should be rejected.

Shri rajpal tyagi, secretary, all. India democratic teacher's organisation, central office-88 b.b. Ganguly street, calcutta-700012

- democratic decentralisation is required in educational management. Management of schools, colleges etc. Should be handed over to an organisation of teachers, parents and students.

Shri kameshwar prasad bahuguna, camp - takkar bappa chhatravas tehri- tehri garwal

- education sector should be free from government control.

Shri lajja ram tomar, all india organising secretary, vidya bharati akhil bharatiya shiksha sangathan, saraswati kunj, nirala nagar, lucknow-226020

- control of education system should be decentralised.

- Administration of education should be degovernmentalised.

Dr. Shreekrishna misra, general secretary, madhya pradesh shikshak sangh, state office 69/1, south tatyatope nagar, bhopal

- an autonomous high power institution should be set up for bring improvement in education.

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Shri h.k. Thakur, president, vanavasi seva kendra, p.o. Adhaura, distt. Rohtas, bihar

- education should be decentralised.

Dr. Rajendra kumar awasthi, secretary, teachers' association, janta college, bakewar, itawa

- the management of universities and colleges should be entrusted to elected governing bodies.

- Gnanam committee recommendations about management of universities should be rejected.

Shri thimmanagouda patil, head master, govt. Model higher primary school, munirabad, distt. Raichur, karnataka (3rd november, 1990)

- involvement of community in planning and financing the system of education is to be welcomed but community management is likely to politicise the entire system. Hence, management of educational institutions should be by the government.

Shri om shrivastava, astha sansthan, 109 kharol colony, udaipur, rajasthan (27th october, 1990)

although decentralised planning is suggested there is need to create systems so that allocation of funds cannot be manipulated. There may be a need to create a directorate for education for tribal areas. We may have to institute an education cadre, may be called "rural education service" with other provisions to improve the quality. More funds may be needed to develop facilities within such backward areas - I.e. School buildings, laboratories, teachers quarters etc.

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- Decentralised school management is an important idea which needs be developed with the teacher community as well as community at large in phases. This may revolutionise the education enterprise. Academic inter-relationship within and among different educational organisations with limited resources at hand may provide quality education.

Shri shatrughna prasad singh, mlc, general secretary, bihar secondary shikshak sangh, jamal road, patna (9th october, 1990)

- education clusters be formed with one college, one high school or a complex of high schools, middle schools and primary schools. It should be the responsibility of the cluster to manage and develop these institutes. Government should bear the financial burden.

Shri gandrao harwani aldak, headmaster, hindi main board primary school, chhindwara (26th september, 1990)

- administration should be decentralised but panchayats should not have direct control over educational institutions.

Shri k. Ramamoorthy, additional chief secretary, government of gujarat, education department, sardar bhawan, sachivalaya, gandhinagar-382010 (26th october, 1990)

- it is not true to say that there has been increasing tendency to centralise and bureaucratise initiatives. It is necessary to distinguish between mass educational programmes and individual programmes. In the field of elementary education, for instance, which is a mass education programme, a repetitive and recognised administrative procedure ensuring that the routines are also observed is absolutely necessary and need for inspecting machinery therefore should not be minimised.

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- The question of participative management needs further study as a subject since certain aspects of education and administration are autonomous in nature and should not be left to the mercy of populism.

- Shri anil biswas, editor, ganashkti, muzaffar ahmad bhawan,31, alimuddin street, calcutta-700016 (27th october, 1990)

- the idea of decentralisation is correctly be upheld. But operational aspects of the model have not been worked out.the effectiveness of the model "educational complex" thus remains indeterminate.

- The idea of autonomy to colleges and school complexes is preposterous and should be abandoned.

Prof. Atiq a. Siddiqi, co-ordinator, curriculum development centre, department of urdu, aligarh muslim university, aligarh-202001 (24th october, 1990)

- the idea of decentralisation of schools management is quite attractive but experiences have shown that the school managed by the local bodies are the worst.

Prof. Krishnaji, chairman, indian institution of maharishi vedic science and technology, maharishi nagar 201 304 (1st november 1990)

- the entire management and control of educational institutions should be with local people including women.

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Shri p.n. Panicker, state resource centre, kanfed, saksharatha bhavan, trivandrum, (panel discussion hold at thiruvananthapuram on 1st november, 1990)

- the educational complexes proposed to be developed must come under the control of local government institutions and be accountable to them. The management of educational institutions must be the job of professionals in the locality

shri h.p. Biswas, programme officer, deptt. Of adult and continuing education, university of delhi, delhi (one day discussion held at bangalore oft 3rd november 1990)

it is doubtful whether the panchayati raj institutions can help in decentralisation in any way because their role should to be clearly restricted to certain areas of management.

Human resources development centre for teachers, rashtreeya vidyalaya teachers college, jayanagar, bangalore-110011 (discussion held on 8th october, 1990).

- The proposals on decentralised management are good but the modalities of operation should be legally defined to protect good academic efforts from being rejected by vested interests.

Bangalore city south district secondary schools head master's and pre- university college principal's association, kalasipalayam, bangalore- 560002 (recommendations made in a special committee meeting held on 11.10.90)

- we have to be cautious in implementating the recommendation on decentralised planning and management. Local bodies mostly consist of non-academic persons who matter in society and the voice of the academician in local councils will not have the weight it should have. As is done in english, we can have local authorities in charge of education but only academicians and professionals should

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have the last word in fixing priorities, objectives and other modalities in education.

Rajya vidwat parishad, rajasthan, adarsh vidya mandir, shiksha kahavidyalaya, raja park, jaipur-302004 (recommendation made in seminar held at jaipur on 13-14th october, 1990

- before transferring the responsibility and accountability of management of education to the local bodies, their competence to manage the affairs need to be developed and strengthened so that the experiment becomes a success. Decentralisation should be done in a phased manner.

- Proper care should be taken in identifying the heads of the educational complex institutions and their training for discharging the additional responsibility envisaged in the paper. A special cadre of heads of institutions should be developed. This will add to the success of decentralisation at the implementation stage.

Southern regional centre of the council for social development, hyderabad and indian university association for continuing education, new delhi (one day discussion held at hyderabad oh 22nd october, 1990)

- in the context of decentralisation, community participation, teacher participation and learner participation in education become critical. The community must itself fix its targets and work towards their achievement.

- The local community must finance, man and manage schools. Local institutions of self-government must be involved in the planning and management of schools. Teachers and homes have not been sharing the burden to the extent they should; learning transactional

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interaction between the pupil, the teachers and the home should not be disadvantageous to the pupil.

Shri ranjeet singh, general secretary, bhartiya shikshan mandal, uttar pradesh, 2-a/411-a, azad nagar, kanpur

- at village level schools be managed by education committees, representatives of panchayats, mohalla samities, students, parents and government departments should be the members of these committees. The terms of members should be 5-6 years. Such committees should be constituted at block levels for secondary education and at district levels for college education. These committees should have the power to open new institutions and to grant them recognition.

- Autonomous educational councils should be set up in states for development of higher education.

University of madras and indian university association for continuing education (views expressed in one day discussion held in madras on 21st october, 1990)

- the concept of decentralisation is very good in principle. However, institutions would require additional resources to respond to decentralisation.

One day discussion organised by the centre for adult education and extension, university of kerala in collaboration with the indian university of association for continuing education at thiruvananthapuram on 27th october, 1990

- a role differentiation process must be evolved for sharing of roles between centralisation and decentralisation. The process of raising community assets must be handled in a decentralised manner through

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a monitoring role only to the central agency. State could be the basic unit of decentralisation, rather than the district. The state could 'pioneer a culture of decentralisation at district or block and mandal levels.

Indore discussion group, indore.

- The school curriculum should be managed by local area planning/ educational. Complexes. However, university personnel should have the academic leadership in a democratic manner in the decision making process in establishing educational complexes.

Seminar organised by academy of administration, madhya pradesh, bhopal

- decentralisation should be effected in all sectors of education, namely, academic, administrative and financial.

- To achieve decentralisation, autonomous education clusters be set up. The principals of the included schools/colleges, respresentatives of teachers and organisations engaged in administrative and developmental work in the area, representatives of public and representatives of government and autonomous organisations engaged in education in the area should be included in the management body of the cluster. While autonomy should be given to the clusters, norms should be laid down so that they work in the interest of the society. Provisions should be made for monitoring the work of the clusters. Zila parishad should give financial assistance to the education cluster and the district education board should work as intermediatry between zila parishad and state government. Transfer of teacher should be within the cluster.

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- The education cluster should prescribe courses keeping in view the competency of teachers and the local conditions.

- Like education cluster at school level, clusters of colleges should be established at higher education level.