Communitisation of Elementary Education
COMMUNITISATION CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: The concept of communitisation is about substantially improving the quality and delivery of public services such as the elementary school at the grass roots by harnessing the age-old social capital availability in the community. A system of communitisation as it were thus represents a parading shift from the model of government where authority lies wholly in the hands of the government. Its defining characteristic is a unique partnership involving sharing of ownership between government and the user community in the management of public institutions and delivering of their services, empowerment, decentralization, and delegation, building capacity all with the aim of improving the delivery of public utility system.
Communitisation therefore involves transfer of government asserts to the community, empowerment of the community through delegation of government powers of management and supervision of day-to-day functioning of employers to village committees. It also demands ensuring accountability of government employees posted at the service delivery level to local communities and control of government asserts by village committees including the responsibility for maintenance, amelioration and augmentation of asserts. As such communitisation is based on triple ‘T’ approach
• Trust the user community
• Train them to discharge their new found responsibility and
• Transfer government powers and resources in respect of management
The roots of communitisation were first laid in 2000, when the state government initiated an “Imagine Nagaland” dialogue exercise where various community stake holders extensively discussed a vision of a better Nagaland improving the delivery of government services in sectors such as education was clearly seen as an area that needed urgent addressal. Following this, in 2002 the “Nagaland Communitisation of public services and institution Act”, a first of its kind in India, was
Communitisation therefore involves transfer of government asserts to the community, empowerment of the community through delegation of government powers of management and supervision of day-to-day functioning of employers to village committees. It also demands ensuring accountability of government employees posted at the service delivery level to local communities and control of government asserts by village committees including the responsibility for maintenance, amelioration and augmentation of asserts. As such communitisation is based on triple ‘T’ approach
• Trust the user community
• Train them to discharge their new found responsibility and
• Transfer government powers and resources in respect of management
The roots of communitisation were first laid in 2000, when the state government initiated an “Imagine Nagaland” dialogue exercise where various community stake holders extensively discussed a vision of a better Nagaland improving the delivery of government services in sectors such as education was clearly seen as an area that needed urgent addressal. Following this, in 2002 the “Nagaland Communitisation of public services and institution Act”, a first of its kind in India, was