Rukmini
Banerji
Director - Programs and senior member of Pratham's
national leadership team
About
ASER The thing that I would like to say is
on the basic design on ASER. The whole idea was
we use a common set of tools and we use a common
sampling strategy. But all these districts partners
do the actual implementation at a district level.
So we believe that it a useful and a very desirable
aspect of ASER that it gets done by many different
people. But we all follow the common thing as
far as comparability is possible.
As
a district level because of constrains level of
time and resources we have not being able to work
consistently with districts partners over these
four years to build up their capacity. This is
something that we would like to do.
This year we have data already in for 564 districts
and a few more will come in. We estimate that
there are about 575 or so rural districts and
I think we will reach probably 570 this year.
