Lok Sabha Question No. 3840 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-19
Subject: RMSA
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: HEMAMALINI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3840 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.03.2018

## RMSA

## 3840. SHRIMATI HEMA MALINI:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether  Rashtriya  Madhyamik Shiksha  Abhiyan  (RMSA)  is operationalised successfully to enhance access and improve quality of education at secondary stage, while ensuring equity;

(b) if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with the  expenditure  and  achievements during the  previous  three years, State/UT-wise; and

(c)   whether the RMSA is to achieve universal retention in secondary level education by 2020 and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) & (b)          The Centrally sponsored scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) envisages  universalizing  access  to  secondary  schools  by  providing  a  secondary  school  within  a reasonable distance (5 kilometer) of every habitation, improving quality of education through making all  secondary  schools  conform  to  prescribed  norms  and  removal  of  gender,  socio-economic  and disability barriers.

Under  the  scheme,  financial  assistance  is  provided  to  the  States/UTs  for  opening  of  New government secondary schools and strengthening of existing government secondary schools alongwith provision of (i) Class Rooms, (ii) Integrated Science Laboratory, (iii) Library (iv) Art and Craft Room, (v)  Toilet  Blocks,  (vi)  Drinking  Water  Provisions,  (vii)  Head  Master  Room  etc. Further,  there  is provision of appointment of 1 Head Teacher and 5 Teachers for every new/upgraded secondary school and Additional teacher is also approved to maintain appropriate Pupil-Teacher ratio as per requirement of  State  Governments/UTs. Central Government regularly takes up the issue of filling up of vacant teacher posts and redeployment of teachers with the State/UT government.

Further, various types of teacher trainings including in-service teacher training to Headmasters/Principle,  Training  of  Master  Trainers,  Training  of  Key  Resource  Persons,  induction training  of  Teachers,  and  Leadership  training  of  Headmasters  & State  Resource  Groups (SRGs) are also supported under RMSA to improve the quality of teaching learning. Moreover, interventions like motivation and awareness programmes, remedial teaching, self-defence training for girls, provision of separate toilets for girls and boys, etc.  are also supported under RMSA to improve quality of school education at secondary level. Further, interventions such as Science fair/Exhibition and Talent Search at  district  level;  mathematics  and  science  kits  to  schools,  visit  to  higher  institution  of  students  and learning enhancement of students are also approved.

Under  RMSA,  2521  New  schools,  5928  Schools  under  strengthening,  6267  schools  under Vocational Education, 11392 schools under ICT and 563 Girls Hostels have been approved from 201415 to 2016-17. The state wise approvals during last 3 year is at Annexure -I.

The State wise status of release of fund by MHRD to States/UTs during last 3 year is at Annexure -II.

Due  to  the  interventions  under  RMSA  at  Secondary  level,  there  has  been  improvement  in educational indicates as tabulated below:

|   Sl No. | Indicator                      |   UDISE* 2013-14 |   UDISE 2015-16 |
|----------|--------------------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|        1 | Gross Enrolment Ration (total) |            76.64 |           80.01 |
|        2 | GER (boys)                     |            76.8  |           79.16 |
|        3 | GER (girls)                    |            76.47 |           80.97 |
|        4 | Gross Access Ratio             |            76.85 |           86.48 |
|        5 | Gender Parity Index (GPI)      |             1    |            1.02 |

- (c)         Yes  Madam,  one  of  the  objectives  of  RMSA  Scheme  is  to  achieve  universal  retention  in secondary level education by 2020. As per UDISE 2015-16, the transition rate from class VIII to IX is 90.62% and the annual average drop out rate at secondary level is 17.06%.

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  &  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  3840  REGARDING  "RMSA"  FOR  ANSWER  ON  19.03.2018  ASKED  BY SHRIMATI HEMA MALINI.

State/UT-wise status of new schools approved under RMSA during last 3 year

| Sl No.   | STATE/UT          | 2014-2015   | 2015-2016   | 2016-2017   |   Total |
|----------|-------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------|
| 1        | ANDHRA PRADESH    |             |             | 54          |      54 |
| 2        | ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 1           | 18          | 18          |      37 |
| 3        | ASSAM             |             | 4           | 8           |      12 |
| 4        | BIHAR             |             |             |             |       0 |
| 5        | CHANDIGARH        |             |             |             |       0 |
| 6        | CHHATTISGARH      |             |             | 84          |      84 |
| 7        | DAMANANDDIU       |             |             |             |       0 |
| 8        | GUJARAT           |             |             | 140         |     140 |
| 9        | HARYANA           |             | 5           | 2           |       7 |
| 10       | HIMACHAL PRADESH  | 30          |             | 12          |      42 |
| 11       | JAMMU AND KASHMIR | 110         |             | 21          |     131 |
| 12       | JHARKHAND         |             |             | 189         |     189 |
| 13       | KARNATAKA         |             |             | 60          |      60 |
| 14       | KERALA            |             |             |             |       0 |
| 15       | MADHYA PRADESH    |             | 484         | 230         |     714 |
| 16       | MANIPUR           | 12          | 22          | 20          |      54 |
| 17       | MEGHALAYA         | 7           |             | 23          |      30 |
| 18       | MIZORAM           | 1           |             | 3           |       4 |
| 19       | NAGALAND          |             |             |             |       0 |
| 20       | ODISHA            | 19          | 82          | 9           |     110 |
| 21       | PUDUCHERRY        |             |             |             |       0 |
| 22       | PUNJAB            | 12          | 28          | 14          |      54 |
| 23       | RAJASTHAN         |             | 114         | 126         |     240 |
| 24       | SIKKIM            | 5           | 1           | 1           |       7 |
| 25       | TAMIL NADU        |             |             | 19          |      19 |
| 26       | TELANGANA         |             |             |             |       0 |
| 27       | TRIPURA           |             | 15          | 18          |      33 |
| 28       | UTTAR PRADESH     |             | 465         |             |     465 |
| 29       | UTTRAKHAND        |             | 9           | 19          |      28 |
| 30       | WEST BENGAL       | 1           | 3           | 3           |       7 |
|          | Total             | 198         | 1250        | 1073        |    2521 |

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  3840  REGARDING  "RMSA"  FOR  ANSWER  ON  19.03.2018  ASKED  BY SHRIMATI HEMA MALINI.

State/UT-wise status of exiting school approved for strengthening under RMSA during last 3 year

| Sl.No   | STATE/UT                    |   2014-2015 |   2015-2016 |   2016-2017 |   Total |
|---------|-----------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------|
| 1       | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS |           0 |           4 |           0 |       4 |
| 2       | ANDHRA PRADESH              |          32 |         884 |           0 |     916 |
| 3       | ARUNACHAL PRADESH           |           0 |          20 |           2 |      22 |
| 4       | ASSAM                       |         189 |           0 |         857 |    1046 |
| 5       | BIHAR                       |           0 |          97 |           0 |      97 |
| 6       | CHANDIGARH                  |           0 |           0 |           0 |       0 |
| 7       | CHHATTISGARH                |           0 |           0 |           0 |       0 |
| 8       | DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI      |           0 |           0 |           0 |       0 |
| 9       | DAMANANDDIU                 |           0 |           0 |           0 |       0 |
| 10      | DELHI                       |           0 |          30 |           0 |      30 |
| 11      | GOA                         |           0 |           0 |           0 |       0 |
| 12      | HARYANA                     |           4 |          73 |         594 |     671 |
| 13      | HIMACHAL PRADESH            |          16 |         204 |           0 |     220 |
| 14      | JAMMU AND KASHMIR           |           0 |         152 |           0 |     152 |
| 15      | JHARKHAND                   |           6 |          53 |           0 |      59 |
| 16      | KARNATAKA                   |           0 |         161 |           7 |     168 |
| 17      | KERALA                      |           5 |           0 |           0 |       5 |
| 18      | MADHYA PRADESH              |           0 |         104 |           0 |     104 |
| 19      | MAHARASHTRA                 |           0 |         217 |           0 |     217 |
| 20      | MANIPUR                     |           0 |          15 |           0 |      15 |
| 21      | MEGHALAYA                   |           0 |          10 |           0 |      10 |
| 22      | MIZORAM                     |           0 |           0 |           0 |       0 |
| 23      | NAGALAND                    |           4 |          58 |           0 |      62 |
| 24      | ODISHA                      |          38 |         135 |         175 |     348 |
| 25      | PUDUCHERRY                  |           0 |           0 |           0 |       0 |
| 26      | PUNJAB                      |          27 |         111 |          98 |     236 |
| 27      | RAJASTHAN                   |         100 |         224 |         621 |     945 |
| 28      | SIKKIM                      |           2 |          11 |           7 |      20 |
| 29      | TAMIL NADU                  |          36 |          54 |           0 |      90 |
| 30      | TELANGANA                   |          17 |           0 |           0 |      17 |
| 31      | TRIPURA                     |          12 |          74 |           0 |      86 |
| 32      | UTTAR PRADESH               |           0 |          39 |          24 |      63 |
| 33      | UTTRAKHAND                  |          12 |         176 |           0 |     188 |
| 34      | WEST BENGAL                 |          86 |          51 |           0 |     137 |
|         | Total                       |         586 |        2957 |        2385 |    5928 |

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  3840  REGARDING  "RMSA"  FOR  ANSWER  ON  19.03.2018  ASKED  BY SHRIMATI HEMA MALINI.

State/UT-wise status of school approved for Vocational Education during last 3 year

| Sl No.   | STATE/UT                    | 2014-2015   | 2015-2016   | 2016-2017   |   Total |
|----------|-----------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------|
| 1        | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS |             | 5           | 12          |      17 |
| 2        | ANDHRA PRADESH              |             |             | 100         |     100 |
| 3        | ARUNACHAL PRADESH           | 11          |             | 78          |      89 |
| 4        | ASSAM                       |             | 95          | 0           |      95 |
| 5        | CHANDIGARH                  | 1           | 4           | 2           |       7 |
| 6        | CHHATTISGARH                |             | 96          | 270         |     366 |
| 7        | DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI      |             | 2           | 2           |       4 |
| 8        | DAMANANDDIU                 |             | 2           | 3           |       5 |
| 9        | GOA                         | 37          | 38          | 3           |      78 |
| 10       | GUJARAT                     |             | 20          |             |      20 |
| 11       | HARYANA                     | 100         | 250         | 500         |     850 |
| 12       | HIMACHAL PRADESH            | 100         | 300         | 350         |     750 |
| 13       | JAMMU AND KASHMIR           | 110         |             | 220         |     330 |
| 14       | JHARKHAND                   |             | 53          | 107         |     160 |
| 15       | KERALA                      |             |             |             |       0 |
| 16       | MADHYA PRADESH              |             |             | 263         |     263 |
| 17       | MAHARASHTRA                 | 346         |             | 160         |     506 |
| 18       | MANIPUR                     | 30          |             | 3           |      33 |
| 19       | MEGHALAYA                   |             | 5           | 5           |      10 |
| 20       | MIZORAM                     |             | 10          | 1           |      11 |
| 21       | NAGALAND                    |             |             | 5           |       5 |
| 22       | ODISHA                      |             |             | 178         |     178 |
| 23       | PUNJAB                      | 100         | 300         | 380         |     780 |
| 24       | RAJASTHAN                   | 70          | 220         | 380         |     670 |
| 25       | SIKKIM                      | 8           | 12          | 57          |      77 |
| 26       | TAMIL NADU                  |             |             | 67          |      67 |
| 27       | TELANGANA                   |             |             | 100         |     100 |
| 28       | UTTAR PRADESH               |             |             | 100         |     100 |
| 29       | UTTRAKHAND                  | 33          | 36          | 120         |     189 |
| 30       | WEST BENGAL                 |             | 196         | 211         |     407 |
|          | Total                       | 946         | 1644        | 3677        |    6267 |

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  3840  REGARDING  "RMSA"  FOR  ANSWER  ON  19.03.2018  ASKED  BY SHRIMATI HEMA MALINI.

State/UT-wise status of school approved for ICT@school during last 3 year

| Sl No.   | STATE/UT                    | 2014-2015   | 2015-2016   | 2016-2017   |   Total |
|----------|-----------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------|
| 1        | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS |             |             | 28          |      28 |
| 2        | ANDHRA PRADESH              | 1647        |             |             |    1647 |
| 3        | ARUNACHAL PRADESH           |             |             | 53          |      53 |
| 4        | ASSAM                       |             | 500         |             |     500 |
| 5        | BIHAR                       |             | 277         | 127         |     404 |
| 6        | CHANDIGARH                  | 1           | 7           | 2           |      10 |
| 7        | CHHATTISGARH                |             |             | 1246        |    1246 |
| 8        | DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI      |             |             |             |       0 |
| 9        | DAMANANDDIU                 |             |             |             |       0 |
| 10       | DELHI                       |             |             | 68          |      68 |
| 11       | GOA                         |             |             | 56          |      56 |
| 12       | GUJARAT                     |             |             | 174         |     174 |
| 13       | HARYANA                     |             |             | 87          |      87 |
| 14       | HIMACHAL PRADESH            |             |             |             |       0 |
| 15       | JAMMU AND KASHMIR           | 220         |             | 407         |     627 |
| 16       | JHARKHAND                   | 465         |             |             |     465 |
| 17       | KARNATAKA                   |             |             |             |       0 |
| 18       | KERALA                      |             |             | 86          |      86 |
| 19       | LAKSHADWEEP                 |             |             |             |       0 |
| 20       | MADHYA PRADESH              |             |             |             |       0 |
| 21       | MAHARASHTRA                 |             | 1000        | 500         |    1500 |
| 22       | MANIPUR                     |             |             | 34          |      34 |
| 23       | MEGHALAYA                   |             | 83          |             |      83 |
| 24       | MIZORAM                     |             |             |             |       0 |
| 25       | NAGALAND                    |             |             |             |       0 |
| 26       | ODISHA                      |             |             | 100         |     100 |
| 27       | PUDUCHERRY                  |             |             |             |       0 |
| 28       | PUNJAB                      |             |             | 100         |     100 |
| 29       | RAJASTHAN                   |             | 525         | 303         |     828 |
| 30       | SIKKIM                      |             | 17          | 13          |      30 |
| 31       | TAMIL NADU                  |             |             |             |       0 |
| 32       | TELANGANA                   | 2175        |             |             |    2175 |
| 33       | TRIPURA                     |             |             |             |       0 |
| 34       | UTTAR PRADESH               |             |             |             |       0 |
| 35       | UTTRAKHAND                  |             |             |             |       0 |
| 36       | WEST BENGAL                 |             |             | 1091        |    1091 |
|          | Total                       | 4508        | 2409        | 4475        |   11392 |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  3840  REGARDING  "RMSA"  FOR  ANSWER  ON  19.03.2018  ASKED  BY SHRIMATI HEMA MALINI.

State/UT-wise status of Girls Hostel approved during last 3 year

| Sl No.   | STATE/UT           | 2014-2015   | 2015-2016   | 2016-2017   |   Total |
|----------|--------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------|
| 1        | ANDHRA PRADESH     |             |             | 57          |      57 |
| 2        | ARUNACHAL PRADESH  |             |             | 10          |      10 |
| 3        | ASSAM              |             | 1           |             |       1 |
| 4        | BIHAR              |             |             | 93          |      93 |
| 5        | DADRA &NAGARHAVELI | 1           |             |             |       1 |
| 6        | HARYANA            | 18          |             |             |      18 |
| 7        | JAMMU &KASHMIR     |             |             | 68          |      68 |
| 8        | JHARKHAND          |             |             | 31          |      31 |
| 9        | KERALA             |             |             | 1           |       1 |
| 10       | MAHARASHTRA        |             |             | 36          |      36 |
| 11       | ODISHA             |             |             | 43          |      43 |
| 12       | TELENGANA          |             | 40          | 23          |      63 |
| 13       | TRIPURA            | 3           | 1           |             |       4 |
| 14       | UTTAR PRADESH      |             | 50          | 87          |     137 |
| 15       | WEST BENGAL        |             |             |             |       0 |
|          | Total              | 22          | 92          | 449         |     563 |

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  3840  REGARDING  "RMSA"  FOR  ANSWER  ON  19.03.2018  ASKED  BY SHRIMATI HEMA MALINI.

State/UT-wise status of release of funds during the last three years

Rs in lakh

| S No.   | State             | Release   | Release   | Release   |
|---------|-------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| S No.   | State             | 2014-15   | 2015-16   | 2016-17   |
| 1       | A&N ISLANDS       | 86.45     | 97.82     | 354.82    |
| 2       | ANDHRA PRADESH    | 7497.42   | 27182.77  | 7108.57   |
| 3       | ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 137.57    | 3626.43   | 1207.31   |
| 4       | ASSAM             | 15981.06  | 16261.66  | 25776.42  |
| 5       | BIHAR             | 14484.50  | 3601.01   | 20065.41  |
| 6       | CHANDIGARH        | 181.20    | 117.65    | 335.02    |
| 7       | CHHATTISGARH      | 19018.66  | 22917.78  | 24663.89  |
| 8       | D AND N HAVELI    | 50.89     | 177.99    | 220.13    |
| 9       | DAMAN AND DIU     | 51.44     | 77.94     | 123.20    |
| 10      | DELHI             | 2114.07   | 1952.97   | 1829.43   |
| 11      | GOA               | 323.15    | 229.15    | 334.98    |
| 12      | GUJARAT           | 9600.80   | 12238.29  | 16505.36  |
| 13      | HARYANA           | 15018.76  | 7726.57   | 14724.44  |
| 14      | HIMACHAL PRADESH  | 3609.39   | 12552.07  | 23279.25  |
| 15      | JAMMU AND KASHMIR | 11544.16  | 9614.42   | 14947.61  |
| 16      | JHARKHAND         | 11120.31  | 7753.04   | 13295.61  |
| 17      | KARNATAKA         | 30351.27  | 20968.84  | 8104.32   |
| 18      | KERALA            | 3991.25   | 10247.22  | 4969.22   |
| 19      | LAKSHADWEEP       | 2.12      | 9.79      | 17.87     |
| 20      | MADHYAPRADESH     | 21010.77  | 28340.93  | 34834.51  |
| 21      | MAHARASHTRA       | 23451.85  | 20180.33  | 12305.67  |
| 22      | MANIPUR           | 6242.42   | 5093.41   | 4320.68   |
| 23      | MEGHALAYA         | 58.62     | 40.08     | 1897.71   |
| 24      | MIZORAM           | 2802.65   | 2080.48   | 3223.65   |
| 25      | NAGALAND          | 363.88    | 5326.42   | 2509.58   |
| 26      | ODISHA            | 20100.26  | 19870.99  | 10058.52  |
| 27      | PUDUCHERRY        | 75.43     | 152.56    | 217.56    |
| 28      | PUNJAB            | 9938.55   | 4482.69   | 8852.12   |
| 29      | RAJASTHAN         | 34421.36  | 37129.87  | 35968.19  |
| 30      | SIKKIM            | 1118.81   | 1661.22   | 1479.98   |
| 31      | TAMIL NADU        | 33364.51  | 31471.84  | 29324.58  |
| 32      | TELANGANA         | 9462.65   | 20008.10  | 9009.98   |
| 33      | TRIPURA           | 599.04    | 910.28    | 1383.85   |
| 34      | UTTAR PRADESH     | 14228.11  | 13150.00  | 18913.62  |
| 35      | UTTRAKHAND        | 5825.84   | 4330.77   | 12463.88  |
| 36      | WEST BENGAL       | 10743.70  | 2909.39   | 4200.01   |
| Total   | Total             | 338972.92 | 354492.77 | 368826.95 |