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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: setting the context -- 2 Shifting terrain of public policy discourses for financing of school education: an overview -- 3 Financing elementary education in Andhra Pradesh under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: a study on fund flow pattern and utilization of resources -- 4 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in Punjab: overall allocations, composition and utilization of funds -- 5 Analysing fund flows and expenditure under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in Himachal Pradesh -- 6 Do the SSA funds hit the target? The case of Kerala -- 7 Bottlenecks in provisioning for elementary education under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: the case of Lalitpur and Rajnandgaon -- 8 Pattern, trend and utilisation of funds under SSA in Odisha: performance analysis of two sample districts -- 9 Review of SSA fund flow pattern: case studies from Mumbai and Raigad in Maharashtra -- 10 Fund-flow pattern under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in West Bengal: a case study of Bankura district -- 11 Fund flows and expenditure in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: a case study of Nalanda district, Bihar -- 12 Implementing right to education in Uttarakhand: the missing links -- 13 Community monitoring of right to education: a case of Udaipur district -- 14 Financing elementary education: induce or reduce interstate disparity?