Synopsis The District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) is an effort to decentralise educational planning at the district level suiting the educational needs and demands of the particular district, with a view to achieving universal primary education, not only in terms of number of coverage, but also in terms of retention and attainment of the desired levels of learning by the children. The DPEP guidelines were formulated in 1993 and since then there have been major developments in the evolution of DPEP. To begin with, the DPEP has been taken up to forty four districts in the states of Assam. Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. As a part of the project formulation process, Baseline Assessment Studies (BAS) were undertaken to provide research based support to the district plans. The present volume attempts to study the effects of DPEP interventions on learner's achievement.