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Documenting the shifts from national to supra-national influences on education policy in India, this chapter focuses on the nuances of the accepted common sense of educational accountability, efficiency, privatisation and deregulation. I concentrate on the social biography of target-driven programmes in India such as Operation Blackboard (OB) and District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) that occupied the place left vacant by national policy generation. The chapter also identifies some of the important moments in the establishment of Education for All (EFA) and points out the ways in which the ideal of inclusion, for instance, has become part of the globally dominant policy structure. The continuation of target-driven programmes in India points out the steady gain of ground by neoliberal ideas of good education. In this context, the poor are constructed as aspiring and entrepreneurial by almost removing poverty from its material and historical determinants and transposing it in the realm of business opportunities.
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The choice of district as a unit of governance has its own problems/limitations. While districts are smaller governing bodies in comparison to state/central units, they cannot be termed as “local” units for most districts are comprised of numerous small towns and villages. The large populations of some districts pose further problems regarding the scope and effectiveness of decentralised planning at the district level.
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Tukdeo, S. (2019). Script and Screenplay: International Actors. In: India Goes to School. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3957-4_4
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