New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee in Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) 2.0 for school education with financial expenditure Rs 2.94,283.04 Crore which included the central part of RS 1,85,398.32 Crore.
According to the Ministry of Education (MOE), despite the continuation of the existing scheme, the focus for the next five years will be in the education of “quality and inclusive” which includes connecting all rural schools with the internet.
The government has decided to increase incentives to children with disabilities to RS 5,000 and expand RS 6000 transportation incentives per year per student to secondary levels in difficult areas.
The national strategy is also in the creation of student dropouts, especially from the SC / SC community, and on student safety.
This scheme tends to benefit 1.16 million schools, more than 156 million students, and 5.7 million government and school teachers assisted from pre-pratama to senior secondary levels.
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Minister of Education Union, Dharmendra Pradhan, said that the SSA 2.0 was given a new dimension “by aligning it with the aim of sustainable development for education (SDG-4) and with the recommendation of NEP 2020 to ensure that all children have access to the quality of education with a fair class environment and Inclusive that must take care of their diverse background, multilingual requirements, different academic capabilities.
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The Cabinet Committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved a large intervention that included universal access including infrastructure development and retention, basic literacy and counting, financial support for teacher salaries, digital initiatives, among others.
Based on NEP 2020 recommendations, the new intervention included in the enhanced SSA is all child-centric interventions that will be given directly to students through DBT mode on IT-based platforms for a certain period of time, provisions of up to RS 500 per child for learning materials (TLM ), original toys and games, game-based activities per year for pre-primary parts at government schools, because school children at the age of 16 to 19 years, support will be provided for SC, ST, children disabled, up to RS 2000 per Children per class to complete their upper middle / medium level through Nios / SOS, additional sports grants to RS 25,000 to schools if at least two school students won a medal.
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Pradhan said: “Child salvation is a concern for all and NEP and SSA have prioritized this.
In private school they have CCTV and parents can track.
The government makes a strategy in a great way for similar efforts in government schools.
In a distant area , transportation incentives have been expanded to the secondary level.
For children breaking up in the age group 16 to 19, especially for SC / SC, the formal identification structure is being made.
Also for people with disabilities, especially women, RS 3,000 incentives have been upgraded to RS 5000 And identification of beneficiaries will occur at the district level.
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The minister said that with the work ongoing to connect each village with the internet, the school will benefit from this and the digital divide will be bridged.
“This country is on the threshold of a big leap towards digitalization.
In a few years, all villages will be connected to the internet.
Schools will benefit.
Smart classes and virtual laboratories will be possible in all rustic schools and whiteboards will be replaced by digital boards.
This is an area SSA priority, “Pradhan added.
In accordance with the implementation strategy, the scheme is being carried out as a sponsored scheme in centrally through the only state implementation community (SIS) at the state level.
At the national level, there is a government / body of the government headed by the Minister of Education and the Project Approval Board (PAB) led by the Secretary, the Ministry of Education and School literacy.
The Board of Government / Agency will be empowered to modify financial and programmed norms and approve detailed guidelines for implementation within the overall skeleton of the scheme.
