Where does the money go? | Shougat Dasgupta: Tehelka
Something is very rotten in a State that spends increasingly lavish sums every year on primary education only to see standards deteriorate. Yamini Aiyar, through her work at the Accountability Initiative, is determined to follow the money. Down whatever surreal garden path it may lead. Much of the trouble, she tells Shougat Dasgupta, is caused by a centralised bureaucracy that refuses to cede even minor decisions to local authorities best placed to make decisions. The results are Kafkaesque.
"...In 2011-12, actual expenditure was quite low, at 61 percent of funds allocated. It had a lot to do with the increase in budgetary allocation at the Central and state level due to the rte Act. The spending capacity of the State has always been low."
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Something is very rotten in a State that spends increasingly lavish sums every year on primary education only to see standards deteriorate. Yamini Aiyar, through her work at the Accountability Initiative, is determined to follow the money. Down whatever surreal garden path it may lead. Much of the trouble, she tells Shougat Dasgupta, is caused by a centralised bureaucracy that refuses to cede even minor decisions to local authorities best placed to make decisions. The results are Kafkaesque.
"...In 2011-12, actual expenditure was quite low, at 61 percent of funds allocated. It had a lot to do with the increase in budgetary allocation at the Central and state level due to the rte Act. The spending capacity of the State has always been low."
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Yamini Aiyar is really grim faced about this. Hopping mad, as anyone should be. Money is not given to schools and what is given is too little and no-one can predict when it iwll reach. Am privileged to be working on the PAISA project with Yamini.
