ANNOUNCEMENTS
This Dissertation analyzes the impact of Supplementary Education System (SES). The research is based on the case study of the ‘Asha Education Centers’, run by the Ramankant Munjal Foundation which is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of the Hero Groups. This initiative is part of their Corporate campaign on Education where the study evaluates the role of Supplementary Education (SE) in bridging the gaps prevalent in the System. This underscores the influential factors of the academic growth of the children. These children, it must be noted come from the deprived socio-economic backgrounds. Hence, the Dissertation analyses how the SES interacts with the social determinants like gender and caste, parental education and family income in Haryana. It finds that all of them have an influential implication on the child's academic attainments. For instance, in the pre-intervention test, the children whose parents have at least some educational qualification or whose annual family income is at least two lakh per annum have shown better grade attainments compared to others. A similar trend is noticed in terms of the gender. In the pre-intervention test conducted at the Asha center, boys have shown significantly better performance than the girls. This contrasts with the post-intervention phase. The children from poor families and illiterate parents, for instance, showed very high progress in the post-intervention phase. This is in contrast to the children of higher-income families and literate parents in the locality. Similarly, girls’ grades in the post-intervention phase was significantly improved than that of boys. Further, the study identifies the factors that influence the impact of SE on the socio-economic spheres. It identifies that the pedagogies and the teachers’ sensitivity towards children from deprived socio-economic backgrounds played a very important role in learning outcomes. This underscores the importance of SE in positively negotiating the social determinants of the deprived children.
