A Survey Report based on physical visit in

Underserved area ( Bagmughaliya) of Bhopal & ASER

report-2023
 This report is based on online research and physical visit in education in slums
and semi slums area in city of Bhopal. The survey is based on the data
available on the many institutions survey but most trusted report was made
by ASER-2023 in the Area of education,
 ASER centre is the foundation basically working on educational status of the
country run by Pratham Education Foundation, the survey done by ASER is on
almost 636 district of India and the data collection is nearly real.
 Aalthough the report is in detail with standard, gender & demographical
classification and need a juncture to follow & Implement its
recommendations.
 I tried to validate its potential in STEM educational system and findings are
presenting in a case study
Case 1 (STEM Education)

 In the hills of Bagmoguliya located behind the Barkatullah university there is a

Govt. operated residential school named Govt. Gyanoday Residential School
katara hills, Bhopal, the school is higher secondary in status and loaded with
all requirements necessary for operating model H.S School, technical labs like
Chemistry, physics and biology has all equipment required in elementary
education, and they have robotics lab too (Not much advance but
introductive).
 The residential facility is as much as 70 students at the time which can
maximize up to 80 in extreme condition (In examination sessions).
 80% of the students belongs to SC/ST category and residential facility is
dedicated underprivilege students.
 School has good garden and space for other physical activities too.
Interventions

 In 2022 there was an intervention made by the veteran IIT-JEE coaching

company called FIITJEE, with 100 students selected from the state of Madhya
Pradesh.
 It was a CSR from their side (or some other entities) that they selected this
residential school as their base center for the IIT-JEE training for upcoming
session.
 The trainers, study material, audio-visual content, and sample papers are
provided by FIITJEE and take care of their needs
 They called it UDAAN an integrated school program for IX students.
 Total 60 students out of 100 were selected in IIT as told by their physics
teacher Mrs. Medha Bajpayee -9425680356
 Statement
In detail discussion with physics teacher Mrs Medha Bajpayee she mention that
FIITJEE was done this program under their or some other CSR program which is an
achievement, and still junior students are talking about this and asking regularly if
it will repeated. The school management ask FIITJEE for continuing this program but
they have funding limitations as the company id profit making not social
enterprises, so if school management wants to continue, they have to arrange funds
(from govt or from other entities) which is not possible for Govt. Schools.
On the question of infrastructural availability in Govt. Schools she said from 2018
every govt. school have all necessary facilities required for its type and there is no
need of any aid provided by outside, I ask for the remotest area schools and the
availability facilities like water and electricity she said it is the subject to evaluate
by physical visit, but do not provide the aid which is outside of the school stock
book, because you will make available but they will not able to get budget for its
maintenance from the government because it is not officially a part of the school
assets
Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2023: Beyond Basics) was released
in New Delhi, 17 January 2024

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2023 ‘Beyond Basics’ was released in New Delhi today. The report
was released by representatives of the ASER 2023 district partner organisations. ASER 2023 ‘Beyond Basics’ puts
the spotlight on youth aged 14 to 18 years in rural India, an age group that was also the focus of ASER 2017.

ASER is a nationwide citizen-led household survey that provides a snapshot of the status of children’s schooling
and learning in rural India. First implemented in 2005, the 'basic’ ASER survey was conducted annually until 2014
and switched to an alternate-year cycle in 2016. The ‘basic’ ASER collects information about enrollment in pre-
school and school for children in the age group of 3 to 16, and assesses children aged 5 to 16 one-on-one to
understand their foundational reading and arithmetic abilities. In the intervening years, ASER dives deeper into
different aspects of children’s schooling and learning in rural India.

The 2023 survey explored the following domains:

• Activity: What activities are India’s youth currently engaged in?

• Ability: Do they have basic and applied reading and math abilities?
• Digital awareness and skills: Do they have access to smartphones? What do they use smartphones for, and can
they do simple tasks on their smartphones?
ASER 2023: Main findings

Key findings are summarized below. However, there are considerable differences across districts which can be
seen in the individual district pages in the report.

Activity
 Overall, 86.8% of 14-18-year-olds are enrolled in an educational institution. There are small gender gaps in
enrollment, but notable differences are visible by age. The percentage of youth not enrolled is 3.9% for 14
year-old youth and is 32.6% for 18-year-olds.

 Most of the young people in this age group were enrolled in the Arts/Humanities stream. In Std XI or higher,
more than half are enrolled in the Arts/Humanities stream (55.7%). Females are less likely to be enrolled in
the STEM stream (28.1%) than males (36.3%).

 Only 5.6% of surveyed youth report taking vocational training or other related courses currently. Youth at
the college level are the most likely to be taking vocational training (16.2%). Most youth are taking short
duration courses (of 6 months or less).

 A higher percentage of males (40.3%) than females (28%) report doing work other than household work for
at least 15 days during the preceding month. Among both males and females, most youth who are working
in activities other than household work tend to be working on family farms.
Foundational skills for youth in the age group of 14-18.

 About 25% of this age group still cannot read a Std II level text fluently in their regional language.

 More than half struggle with division (3-digit by 1-digit) problems. Only 43.3% of 14-18-yearolds are able to do
such problems correctly. This skill is usually expected in Std III/IV.

 A little over half can read sentences in English (57.3%). Of those who can read sentences in English, almost
three quarters can tell their meanings (73.5%).

 Across enrollment categories, females (76%) do better than males (70.9%) in reading a Std II level text in their
regional language. In contrast, males do better than their female counterparts in arithmetic and English reading.

Everyday calculations

In their daily life, people are expected to do many tasks requiring the application of numeracy. ASER 2023 explored
a variety of such common calculations relevant to the daily life of youth.

 Nearly 85% of surveyed youth can measure length using a scale when the starting point is 0 cm. This proportion
drops sharply to 39% when the starting point is moved. Overall, close to 50% youth can do other common
calculations.
Reading and understanding written instructions – daily life applications
Youth were shown a picture of an O.R.S. packet and asked some questions regarding the information given on
it. This task was administered only to those youth who could read at least a Std I level text on the basic ASER
reading assessment.

Among youth who can read a Std I level text or more, about two thirds can answer at least 3
out of 4 questions based on the packet.

Financial calculations
Youth who could do at least subtraction on the ASER arithmetic test were asked to do some commonplace
financial calculations.

 Of the youth who can do subtraction or more, over 60% are able to do the budget management task, about
37% can apply a discount, but only about 10% can calculate repayment. The overall patterns in the “ability”
domain indicate that having basic foundational skills like reading and arithmetic are very helpful for
activities like everyday calculations and understanding instructions. However, females perform worse than
males on almost all tasks.

Digital awareness and skills

The exploration of digital connectivity and skills in ASER 2023 included self-reported questions capturing
youths’ access to and usage of digital devices, and an assessment of their digital skills – actually doing a set of
tasks in front of the survey team using an available smartphone.
Digital access (Self-reported)

 Close to 90% of all youth have a smartphone in the household and know how to use it. Of
those who can use a smartphone, males (43.7%) are more than twice as likely to have their
own smartphone than females (19.8%).
 Females are less likely to know how to use a smartphone or computer as compared to
males.

Communication and online safety (Self-reported)

 Almost all youth (90.5%) report having used social media in the reference week, with a
slightly higher proportion of males (93.4%) than females (87.8%) reporting doing so.
 Of all youth who used social media, only about half are familiar with the online safety
settings that were included in the survey. Males are more likely to know about these
settings than females.

Education and learning (Self-reported)

 Among youth who can use a smartphone, two thirds report having used it for some
education related activity during the reference week, such as watching online videos
related to studies, solving doubts, or exchanging notes.
 A quarter of youth who are not currently enrolled also report doing education related
activities on their smartphone during the reference week.
Digital tasks (done on a smartphone in the presence of the survey team)

Surveyed youth were asked to bring a smartphone with good connectivity – their own, a family
member’s, or a neighbor's – for the assessment of digital skills. During the survey, slightly more
than two thirds of youth could bring a smartphone to do these tasks. Males were more likely to be
able to bring a smartphone (72.9%) than females (62%). Of youth who could bring a smartphone,
about 80% can find a specific video on YouTube and among these, nearly 90% can share it with a
friend. 70% youth can browse the internet to find the answer to a question and about two thirds
can set an alarm for a specific time. A little over a third can use Google Maps to find the time taken
to travel between two points.

 Across all tasks, males outperform females.

 Performance on digital tasks improves with education level.
 The ability to do digital tasks increases with basic reading proficiency.
Educational data of Bhopal
% Children enrolled in different types
of schools. By age group and sex.
Enrollment Data Age group and sex Govt Pvt Other Not in Total
school

Govt school Not in school Age 6-14: All 70.0 27.4 0.0 2.6 100

% Children % Children Age 7-16: All 69.4 26.1 0.1 4.4 100
Division/ (age 6-14) (age 6-14)
Age 7-10: All 68.2 29.9 0.1 1.9 100
Region enrolled in not enrolled
govt school in school Age 7-10: Boys 64.5 33.6 0.1 1.8 100

Age 7-10: Girls 71.8 26.2 0.0 1.9 100

2018 2022 2018 2022
Age 11-14: All 71.5 25.2 0.0 3.3 100

Age 11-14: Boys 68.1 29.0 0.1 2.8 100

Age 11-14: Girls 74.8 21.4 0.0 3.8 100

60.6 62.2 3.3 1.5
Age 15-16: All 67.3 17.8 0.1 14.9 100
Bhopal
±3.9 ±3.98 ±0.82 ±0.68
Age 15-16: Boys 65.1 22.2 0.1 12.6 100

Age 15-16: Girls 69.2 13.7 0.1 17.0 100

 Young children in pre-school and school
% Children enrolled in different types of
pre- schools and schools. By age. 2022

Pre-school School Not in

pre-
Govt Pvt school Total
Age Anganwadi Govt Pvt Other
pre- LKG/ or
primary UKG school

Age 3 81.0 0.6 7.4 0.7 0.7 0.0 9.6 100

Age 4 67.3 0.8 18.3 3.9 2.3 0.0 7.5 100
Age 5 30.8 0.5 20.7 31.5 12.4 0.0 4.1 100
Age 6 7.3 0.4 8.9 60.2 21.1 0.0 2.2 100
Age 7 1.5 0.2 2.8 64.8 28.3 0.1 2.4 100
Age 8 0.8 0.0 1.1 68.0 28.5 0.0 1.7 100
 Had Meeting with local Basti samiti in
baghmugaliya
• I had a meeting with local committee in baghmugoliya a semi slum area and give
brief introduction of our organization and discussed about our possible upcoming
events.
• Take feedback from the women.
• Ask to identify hidden talent and appreciate them in many ways if not possible
financially
• Ask about their children and their educational status.