The BMC has a huge education budget of around 2400 Crore Rupees for primary education.The students studying in MCGM school are entitled to certain facilities such as mid day meals, accident insurance schemes, scholarships, English speaking, basic IT skill training,27 study aids,Health check-ups,etc

2. CITIZENS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD RIGHTS
(A SECTION 25 NON PROFIT COMPANY)
CACR -Citizens Association for Child Rights is a
non profit organisation which is a collective of
like
minded
Citizens,
Activists,
ALMS,
Community centres, etc. that has been primarily
focusing on improvement in functioning and
quality of education by direct participation in
BMC schools.

3. FACILITIES AND AMENITIES FOR
EVERY CHILD
ENROLLED IN MCGM SCHOOLS
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4. Free and Compulsory Education up to
Class VIII as per RTE Act
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5. 27 Items that all students are
entitled to receive
• Pencils,
• Crayons,
• Pencil box
• Pen
• Eraser
• Ruler
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6. 27 Items include
•School Bags
•Girls
uniform/Pinafores
• Shirts
•Trousers
•Ribbons
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7. 27 Items
include
• Note books
• Textbooks
• Compass box
• School Bag
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8. 27 Items
include
• Tiffin box,
• Water bottle
• Water colors
• Paint brush
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9. 27 Items
include
• Shoes
• Socks
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10. 27 Items
include
• Raincoat *
• Umbrella*
*once every 2 years.
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11. Mid-day meal
To Attract
children to
school
Government has
a midday meal
scheme under
which nutritious,
hygienic ,and
wholesome food
is supposed to
be given to
students during
lunch break
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12. Mid day meals
MID DAY MEALS
comprising of
variety of
•Khichadi with
different ingredients
every day,
•Biscuits
•Idli Sambar
•Rajgira Ladoo
• Egg
•Bananas, etc. once
a week
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13. Rajiv Gandhi Accident Insurance Scheme
• Rajiv Gandhi Vidyarthi Suraksha Yojana
• The scheme, wherein the government has already paid
the Oriental Insurance Company a cover premium for 2
crores and 85 Lakh students across the state
• It is also available for those already on the school and
college rolls.
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14. Rajiv Gandhi Accident Insurance
Scheme
• It offers benefits against accidental death (Rs
30,000),
• Permanent disablement (Rs 20,000 to Rs 50,000
depending on the nature of injury),
• Medical expenses for treatment following an
accident (Rs 2000 to Rs 10,000),
• Loss of books due to accident (Rs 350),
• Reimbursement of fees if the student is unable to
attend classes due to an accident (Rs 650),
• Loss of bicycle (up to Rs 1500) and
• Loss of spectacles (up to Rs 750).
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15. Health check up every 2 years and free treatment for
major and minor illnesses.
• BMC health
department to
conduct bi-annual
health check ups
for every child.
• First Aid Box to be
kept in the school
premises
GR First-Aid Box-
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16. Scholarship programme and
exams
• To encourage students to perform well
scholarship exams are help every year in the
month of March
• Scholarship exams are for children enrolled in
class 4th and class 7th
• Merit Holders in these exams are entitled to
receive monetary benefit.
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17. Financial incentive for students.
• For encouraging the students to attend school esp.
Girl students the MCGM given certain financial
incentives
• Rupees 2500 Fixed deposit to girl students is given
when they pass out of VII standard and it income
can be enchased in the next 5 years when they
reach XII standard.
• These will help to improve attendance and
retention.
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18. Computer Literacy Programme
• IIT Bombay has developed Self-taught, spoken
tutorial videos in Hindi, Marathi, English, Kannad,
Guajarati , Bengali and Tamil languages that teach
students Basic IT skills
• Students can learn to type a text document, edit and
save it as well as they learn Basics of Excel sheet
and presentation preparation
• Citizens Association for Child Rights-CACR has
partnered with IIT for implementation of this program
in Mumbai
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19. CACR Volunteer training students
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20. Students practice after been trained by CACR
volunteers
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21. Virtual Classroom teaching-- recently introduced
• The BMC /MCGM has installed a virtual education
system to attract more students.
• The Virtual Classroom was introduced as a pilot
project in few schools, after its success in South
Mumbai schools it was introduced in more schools.
• Equipment installed in more than 400 schools
• Virtual classrooms are becoming the new medium of
instruction to reach multiple schools at the same time,
take questions and even give demonstrations all in
'Real Time' ​without CITIZENS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD
© travelling.
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22. How Virtual
Classroom works
• The students will be
taught through the
system which will be
connected through
satellite and reach
all the municipal
schools. ​The
teacher-instructor
will be present in a
central studio from
which the lessons
will be relayed
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23. Virtual class session in progress
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24. Other Facilities: Libraries, science
laboratories, etc
• As per Right To Education Act-RTE every schools
should have a reading room/library.
• A Science Laboratory
• A computer room with working computers exist in most
schools .
• The computers are donated by corporate s or trusts
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25. Semi English Training
Since the demand for English medium schools is
increasing , BMC has started Semi English classes as
a pilot project this year
About 2400 BMC school teachers will be trained by
the British Council this year and this will continue for
the next four years.
Effectively 9600 teachers out of the 12,000+ teachers
will be trained.
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26. THE PARADOX
BUDGETS FOR PRIMARY
EDUCATION HAVE TRIPLED IN
LAST 5 to 6 YEARS FROM
RS.800+ CRORES TO ALMOST
RS.2500 CRORES
BUT NUMBER OF CHILDREN
HAVE DWINDLED FROM MORE
THAN 5 LAKHS TO LESS THAN 4
LAKHS DURING THE SAME
PERIOD
RS.CRORE
#No. of STUDENTS.LAKHS
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
RS.CRORE
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
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STUDENTS.L
AKHS
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27. How can people help?
A. Get together, start observing neighbourhood schools, be a
part
of
school
management
committees-SMC
as
empowered under the RTE. Ensure parents participation in
SMC meetings, which will help in empowering the parents.
B. Create awareness
is very important issue of ensuring
every child in school as per RTE.
C. Question the hierarchy in education department, our
elected representatives, corporator, etc.
D. Ensure activation and accountability in the system rather
than creating parallel systems, ensuring every child will
have access to free and quality education.
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28. PLEASE STRENGTHEN OUR HANDS AND BE A
PART OF CITIZENS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD
RIGHTS.
THANK YOU
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EMAIL: connect.cacr@gmail.com
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