1. Manthan Topic:
Rohit Shelar
Ketan Patil
Nikhil Agate
Sneha Peshattiwar
Kumar Satyam

2. Problems for Poor Quality of Primary EducationLongterm
Problems
• Child Labor Is Prevalent
• Population Lives In Poverty
• Awareness: Value Of School
Education
ShortTerm
Problems
• Physical Distance: Unavailability
of School
• Teachers Lack Training And
Motivation
• Lack Facilities and Teaching Aids
Qualification Of Current Primary Teachers
1. Year of joining-1985-1995 SSC; 1995-2005 D. Ed.; 2005-2013 B. Ed.
2. Poor or No Knowledge of Computers
Facilities Available
1. Basic infrastructure
2. Poor sanitation
3. Obsolete syllabus
Facilities Not-Available
1. Regular and Updated training
2. Dynamic teaching methods
3. Audio Visual teaching Aids
Utilization of Audio Visual aids will Motivate students to pursue primary
education and create awareness among them for importance of Education
Causes of the Poor Quality of Primary Education

3. Proposed Idea
• Stories, Lessons, Civic Sense and etiquettes can be easily
taught through cartoons
• Easy and inexpensive to make and update
Comics
• Poems with appropriate Rhymes and rhythm will
facilitate easy and quick learningAudio
• Dramas, Plays, Stories, Science, Basic Mathematics and
History-Geography will be easily visualized by using
Animations, Movies and Documentaries
Visual
To convert textual syllabus into Audio-Visual Aids for easy Understanding and quick
grasping

4. Merits of the Proposed Solution
Existing System
• Facilities available, Teachers with
their experience, knowledge
• Subjects to be taught
• Language: alphabet, word and
sentence formation, their
pronunciation and grammar is
limited to the class and the teacher
• Learning poetry and visualizing
stories is difficult without teachers
help and assistance
• Maths: Basic arithmetic, tables are
difficult to remember
• Sciences: Lack of facilities available
in classroom is a major constraint
in learning
• Current system promotes rote
learning
Proposed System
• It helps in clear visualisation of
stories, lessons, geographies,
sciences etc
• It is difficult for students to
experience all the things taught to
them through textbooks in person. It
provides Vicarious Experience to
students
• Audio-Visual aids provide variety in
learning
• The use of audio-visual aids provides
immense opportunities to the
students for self learning
• They are the best motivators.
Students work with more interest
and zeal
• They are more attentive

5. Implementation of Comics
 Identifying Content
• Identify publishers who already create comics for primary school students.
• Select appropriate content which is relevant and essential for educating
primary school students.
• Obtain copyrights for using any particular cartoon (popular among children)
for these educational comics.
• For example the cartoon of Shaktimaan explaining primary educational terms
in pictorial story format.
 Printing the material
• The material can be printed by giving out contracts to various private printers
available in the country.
 Distribution
• The existing distribution channel used for distributing textbooks will be used.

6. Implementation of Comics
 Cost
• Currently 23 crore students study in various schools in India
• Roughly 40% of these students are below fourth standard
• Considering 5 books per student 46 crore books will be required. Considering a
cost of Rs 50 per book the project will cost 2300 crore rupees
• The project is to be implemented over 4 years with an investment of Rs. 575
crore each year
 Funding
• The project aims at creating aids for student learning and as such books should
be maintained in school for reference of students. The funds are to be obtained
from the central government by utilising the education cess collected by the
govt
Source: http://www.censusindia.gov.in/

7. Implementations of Audio-visuals
Identifying Content :
 All the state and government board syllabus should be converted
into animated and pictorial formats
 History should be taught by depicting stories through videos
 Geography can be visualised through animations for better
perception
Cost :
 Basic cost for an audio-visual screening system is up to 32000/school
Sources of funds :
 Basic cost can be contributed by the government
 CSR , NGO`s can help boost the network and upgrade the IT
infrastructure

8. Impact of the Solution
Measuring the impact:
• Knowledge- Self learning approach (audio-visual) will help to make
education reach root level.
• Absenteeism of students as well as teachers in rural areas will
decrease – (currently 64% attendance in rural and 74% in urban
areas)
• Will impact on overall literacy rate of country
• Increase in number of enrolments of students in secondary schools
from primary schools.
• Increase in grades of students

9. Sustainability
2 years plan
 Implementing plans for comics thoroughly all over India
 Include basic computer knowledge subject in the syllabus of D.Ed
and B.Ed
 Compulsory internship program for D.Ed and B.Ed students in
rural areas
 Training rural women with basic computer knowledge at least to
play audio and videos
- This will help for rural women empowerment also
5 years plan
 Increase in number and facilities of public schools for primary
education( facilities like audio-visual aids, good classrooms)
 Monitoring-
 Additional responsibility to education inspector for ensuring
the supply of comics (books) and audio-visual aids.

10. Challenges and mitigation factors
Challenges faced Ways to mitigate
Political- Bribe taken by political
members or government officials in the
process of staff appointment in rural
areas
Not more teachers will be required in
rural areas if audio-visual aids solution is
applied
Social-
•Ignorance of people towards education
•Girls not allowed to go schools and
learn in some villages
Awareness campaign by B.Ed and D.Ed
students during their internship
program. This campaign will include
importance of education, gender
equality and government programs for
improving education
Economical –
Less funds available with government
Encourage CSR activities in Education
sector by local companies in respective
rural areas
Technological-
Availability of electricity, computers,
projectors and other accessories etc.
Supplying second hand (used)
computers from urban areas to rural
areas in less price