As part of the study on the financing of elementary education in eight Indian states, New Concept was assigned the task of carrying out the survey in all the eight states in of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. A project for the Government of India and UNICEF, the survey involved collection of data (Classes I-VIII) from both the urban and rural sectors in the states. New Concept organized and managed this massive survey from designing questionnaires to field work to data management and analysis. A total of 34 district survey reports will be the output of the study. New Concept also provided inputs in a series of national level workshops. The uniqueness of this study is the complete enumeration of all the households in the selected blocks of the study, amounting to around 1.2 Lakh households.