Reaching the unreached through participatory planning: school mapping in Lok Jumbish, India
While the rational allocation of educational facilities may help bridge the gap of physical distances between learners and the school, it may still leave out a large number of children from the purview of primary education. This is the case with respect to Rajasthan, India - the barrier is not one of physical distance, but of social, economic and cultural blocks. Thus, if bringing all children to school and ensuring that they complete the whole cycle of primary education is the objective, merely preparing distance matrices through school-mapping exercises will not solve the problem.