Decentralization of educational planning and management is a major concern in India. Translation of the idea of decentralisation into an operational practice requires creation of necessary organisational arrangements to make the practice administratively feasible and professionally supportive.

The need for developing organisational arrangements to facilitate educational planning in a decentralised framework was recognised for a long time in India. However, the efforts to create such organisational arrangements were not very successful. Planning competencies are almost non-existent at local levels and now it is recognised as one of the major constraints in translating the idea of decentralised planning into an operational practice. Development of local capacity in planning and management of education requires state level institutions to provide professional guidance and support. SIEMAT can be one of the organisational arrangements to help professionalising educational planning and management activities at the state, district and sub-district levels.

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