Samagra Shiksha Scheme

Samagra Shiksha Scheme to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels of school education

About -: 

The Department of School Education and Literacy has formulated the Samagra Shiksha - an Integrated Scheme for School Education as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and it is being implemented throughout the country with effect from the year 2018-19.

Features -: 

This programme subsumes the three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE).

 It is an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class XII and aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels of school education. 

  It envisages the ‘school’ as a continuum from pre-school, primary, upper primary, secondary to senior secondary levels. 

Major Interventions -: 

 (i) Universal Access including Infrastructure Development and Retention;

 (ii) Gender and Equity; 

(iii) Inclusive Education; 

(iv) Quality; 

(v) Financial support for Teacher Salary; 

 (vi) Digital initiatives; 

(vii) Entitlements under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 including uniforms, textbooks etc.;

(viii) Pre-school Education;

 (ix) Vocational Education;

 (x) Sports and Physical Education; 

(xi) Strengthening of Teacher Education and Training;

 (xii) Monitoring and 

(xiii) Programme Management. 

The main emphasis of the Scheme is on improving quality of school education and the strategy for all interventions would be to enhance the Learning Outcomes at all levels of schooling.