The District Education Revitalisation Programme was launched in 1994 with an goal to universalise primary education in India by reforming and vitalising the prevailing major education system. 85% of the DERP was funded by the central government and the remaining 15% was funded by the states. The DERP, which had opened 160,000 new colleges including eighty four,000 alternative education colleges delivering different education to approximately 3.5 million youngsters, was additionally supported by UNICEF and other international applications. “Corruption hurts the poor disproportionately – by diverting funds meant for development, undermining a government’s capacity to offer fundamental companies, feeding inequality and…