Lok Jumbish

 Lok Jumbish 

Lok Jumbish –“People’s movement for Education for All” was launched in 1992 by Government of Rajasthan with support of Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). It is a programme for achieving main goal of Universalization of Elementary Education up to satisfactory level through formal as well as non formal modes and functional literacy.It mainly emphasis on girl’s education and development;  and continuing education with immediate goals of establishment of the management system and initiation of activities for people’s mobilization. 

Objectives of the project 

l To achieve education for all by the year 2000 through people’s mobilization and their participation.

l To ensure improvement in enrollment of girls by paying attention to the girl child and the women

l  To empower women by making education an instrument for equality.

l To bring literacy levels up to 80% in the group 15-35 years in each gender and disadvantaged group making 3R relevant to living conditions.

l To create system of training and technical resources, support structure to bring about qualitative improvement in the learning process.

l To ensure transparency whereby data is collected and used by the same people who are linked together by the process.

Main Components 

l  Creation of Lok Jumbish Parishad, an autonomous body for launching and managing programmes with an empowerment of committee which will review progress.

l School mapping and micro planning represent the principal operational feature of Lok Jumbish at the village level, carried out by social animators, teachers and Lok Jumbish functionaries for assessment of education which help to track progress of each child by his\her name.

Strategies

l Developed a mechanism at bottom level like Prerak Dal, Bhavan Nirman Committee, Village education Committee, Cluster, Khand Stariya Shiksha Prabandhan Samiti (block level mgt) and Block steering groups to support and monitor programmes.

l Adhyapika Munch was created for getting participation of women.

l Increased the number of functionaries at all levels to start matrix system of management to fulfill their responsibility of working area

l Review planning meetings (RPMs) of all functionaries at cluster and block level was held in every month to review work and plan for next month and the same process was repeated at state level with 2-3 RPMs.

l  Praveshotsav: Praveshotsav is an event through which a positive and creative environment created for education amongst children, the school and the community;

Activities: 

l Hostels for tribal children

l Mahila Shikshan Vihar: Residential course for out of school girls of 15+ age group to provide quality education in a residential type of atmosphere in rural areas.

l Balika Shikshan Shivir: Residential camp of 6 -8 months of school for girls in 9+ age group to facilitate reentry to formal education system.

l Muktangan: Educational Programme for tribal children

l Madrasa: Education through madrasa for the children from minority community

l Sahaj Shiksha Kendra: Non formal education programme for the working children.

l School Health Programme: Focus on giving awareness of health among children

l Anganwadi centres: For strengthening Pre-Primary education.

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