MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)
(a) to (c) The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
(RMSA) launched in 2009, envisages universalizing access to secondary schools by providing
a secondary school within a reasonable distance (5 kilometer) of every habitation and a higher
secondary schools within a reasonable distance (7-10 kilometers). When the Scheme was
launched in 2009-10, it was decided to implement it in a phased manner, the first phase was
designed to make good quality secondary education available to young persons in the age group
of 14-15 years. However, the other components of integrated RMSA, viz Information and
Communication Technology in Schools, Girls Hostels, Vocational Education and Inclusive
Education for Disabled at Secondary Stage catered to Higher Secondary level also.
Now, the Department of School Education and Literacy has launched an Integrated
Scheme for School Education-Samagra Shiksha, subsuming three erstwhile Centrally
Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
(RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE). The Samagra Shiksha has come into effect from 1st
April, 2018. The new integrated scheme envisages school education as a continuum from preschool
to senior secondary level and aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at
all levels. The main objectives of the scheme are provision of quality education and enhancing
learning outcomes of students, bridging social and gender gaps in school education, ensuring
minimum standards in schooling provision, support to states in the implementation of RTE Act,
2009 and strengthening of teacher education institutions.
During the year 2018-19, under Samagra Shiksha, 44 schools have been upgraded from
secondary to senior secondary and additional subject streams have been approved in 851 senior
secondary schools, based on appraisal of the proposals received from the States/UTs.
The Samagra Shiksha scheme focuses on improvement of quality of education by
providing support to all States/ UTs for different interventions like; in-service training of
teachers and schools heads, conduct of achievement surveys at National and State level,
composite school grant to every school for providing a conducive learning environment, library
grants, provision of textbooks and school uniforms as per Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA), remedial
teaching for academically weaker students, ICT and digital initiatives, grants for sports and
physical education, School Evaluation, Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat (PBBB), Performance
Indicators for Teachers (PINDICS), Kala Utsav, Excursion trips for students, Twinning of
Schools and Student and Teacher Exchange Programme.
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