Twenty Second Joint Review Mission. State Report: West Bengal (January 12 to 20, 2006)

Abstract

On behalf of the Twenty Second JRM of the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) that was combined with the Third Joint review Mission (JRM) of the SSA, Prof CS Nagaraju (GOI), Shanker Lal (DFID) and Rajeev Kapoor (DFID) visited State of West Bengal from 12 to 20 January. The aim of the JRM was to review the progress towards achieving the objectives of the SSA and DPEP (which is supporting primary education in five districts of the state). A separate report on SSA was submitted, although many of the planning and capacity building issues are common to both SSA and DPEP.