HSBC's Education Forum : Rukmini Banerji , Director - Programs, Pratham Go To Education Home Page
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.

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