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Samgra Siksha Abhiyan

June 26, 2020
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The Union Budget, 2018-19, has proposed to treat school education holistically without segmentation from pre-nursery to Class 12 The major objectives of the Scheme are;

  • Provision of quality education and enhancing learning outcomes of students.
  • Bridging Social and Gender Gaps in School Education.
  • Ensuring equity and inclusion at all levels of school education.
  • Ensuring minimum standards in schooling provisions.
  • Promoting Vocationalisation of education.
  • Support States in implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009; and
  • Strengthening and up-gradation of State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERTs)/State Institutes of Education and District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) as nodal agencies for teacher training

Important features

Holistic approach to education

  • Treat school education holistically as a continuum from Pre-school to Class 12
  • Inclusion of senior secondary levels and pre-school levels in support for School education for the first time

Administrative reform

  • Single and unified administrative structure leading to the harmonized implementation
  • Flexibility to States to prioritise their interventions under the Scheme
  • An integrated administration looking at ‘school’ as a continuum

Focus on Quality of Education

  • Enhanced focus on improving the quality of education by focusing on the two T’s – Teachers and Technology
  • Focus on strengthening Teacher Education Institutions like SCERTs and DIETs to improve the quality of prospective teachers in the system
  • SCERT to be the nodal institution for in-service and pre-service teacher training – will make training dynamic and need-based
  • Support for Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan to promote Science and Maths learning in schools

Focus on Digital Education

  • Support ‘Operation Digital Board’ in all secondary schools over a period of 5 years, which will revolutionize education- easy to understand, technology-based learning classrooms will become flipped classrooms.
  • Enhanced use of digital technology in education through smart classrooms, digital boards and DTH channels
  • Digital initiatives like Unified District Information on School Education(UDISE+), Shagun, to be strengthened
  • Strengthening of ICT infrastructure in schools from upper primary to higher secondary level

 Strengthening of Schools

  • Enhanced Transport facility to children across all classes from I to VIII for universal access to school
  • Specific provision for Swachhta activities – support ‘Swachh Vidyalaya’

Focus on Girl Education

  • Up gradation of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) from Class 6-8 to Class 6-12.
  • Self-defence training for girls from upper primary to senior secondary stage

Focus on Inclusion

  • Allocation for uniforms under RTE Act enhanced from Rs. 400 to Rs. 600 per child per annum.

Focus on Skill Development

  • Exposure to Vocational Skills at Upper Primary Level would be extended.
  • Vocational education for Class 9-12 as integrated with the curriculum and to be made more practical and industry oriented.
  • Reinforce emphasis on ‘Kaushal Vikas’

Focus on Sports and Physical Education

  • Sports Education to be an integral part of curriculum

Focus on Regional Balance

  • Preference to Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs), LWE affected districts, Special Focus Districts (SFDs), Border areas and the 117 aspirational districts identified by Niti Aayog

Implementation

  • The Scheme will be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme by the Department through a single State Implementation Society (SIS) at the State/UT level.
  • At the National level, there would be a Governing Council headed by Minister of Human Resource Development and a Project Approval Board (PAB) headed by Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy.

 

 

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