Question : National Secondary Education Campaign

(a) whether a decline in the number of students taking admission to secondary level from
upper primary level has been noticed in several States, especially in Jammu & Kashmir;
(b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise including Jammu & Kashmir;
(c) the present status of the National Secondary Education Campaign to be launched with
the objective of making secondary education available to all; and
(d) the measures taken by the Government to increase the number of students taking
admission in secondary schools across the country?

MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)

(a) to (d) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN PARTS (a) TO (d) OF THE REPLY TO LOK
SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 335 REGARDING “NATIONAL SECONDARY
EDUCATION CAMPAIGN” FOR ANSWER ON 19.03.2018 ASKED BY SHRI
JUGAL KISHORE

(a) & (b) As per Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) database,
the overall enrolment in class IX has increased from 2,02,96,590 in 2014-15 to 2,04,83,777 in
2015-16. The State/UT wise details including the State of Jammu & Kashmir are at
Annexure.

(c) & (d) The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
(RMSA) envisages inter-alia provision of a secondary school within a reasonable distance of
any habitation and to improve quality of education imparted at secondary level by making all
secondary schools conform to prescribed norms, removing gender, socio-economic and
disability barriers etc. Under the scheme, financial support is provided to the States/UTs for
opening of new government secondary schools and strengthening of existing secondary
schools along with provision of (i) Class Rooms, (ii) Integrated Science Laboratory, (iii)
Library (iv) Art and Craft Room, (v) Toilet Blocks, (vi) Drinking Water facility, (vii) Head
Master Room, (viii) Office Room. Under the scheme, 12,682 new schools & 37,799 existing
schools for strengthening, 2,549 Girls Hostels in educationally backward blocks, 8,227
schools for vocationalisation of education and 88,994 schools for ICT component have been
approved till 2017-18.
Further, under the scheme, interventions such as residential quarters for teachers,
additional teachers to improve the Pupil Teacher Ratio, self defence training for girl students,
guidance and counselling, adolescent education programmes, organization of
empowerment/awareness camps, enrolment and retention camps, remedial teaching for
weaker students, in-service training of teachers, school leadership training of head teachers,
digital education initiatives etc are approved to improve the access to and quality of
education at the secondary stage.
After implementation of the RMSA, the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) which
was 62.90% in 2009-10 (As per Statistics of School Education) has increased to 80.01% in
2015-16 (UDISE). Further, access to secondary education which was 68.22% in the year
2011-12 has increased to 87.50% in 2017-18.
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