Lok Sabha Question No. 286 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-06-24
Subject: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Bheemrao Baswanthrao Patil

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 286 TO BE ANSWERED ON 24 th   JUNE, 2019

## Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

## 286.       SHRI B.B. PATIL:

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

- (a) the measures taken by the Government to improve the quality of education under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA);
- (b) whether  the  Government  has  adopted  any  mechanism  to  evaluate  the  progress  of various objectives of the scheme;
- (c) the targeted achievements under the scheme during the last three years; and
- (d) the  measures taken by the Government to implement the scheme particularly in rural regions of the country?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ( SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

- (a) The  Central  Government  has  taken  several  initiatives  to  the  quality  of  education  in primary and secondary schools in the country as follows:
1.        In order to focus on quality education, the Central rules to the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act have been amended to include reference on class-wise, subject-wise Learning Outcomes. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)  conducted  a  National  Achievement  Survey,  under  which  learning  outcomes  of students were evaluated.
2. The  online  D.El.Ed.  course  has  been  started  from  3rd  October,  2017  and  9,58,513 teachers have successfully completed the training. A four year B.Ed integrated course has been launched for which applications have been invited on 3 rd June 2019.
3. The Central Government has launched an Integrated Scheme for School Education Samagra  Shiksha,  from  2018-19.  Government  of  India  has  decided  to    participate  in  the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) to be conducted by the Organization for  Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2021. Approval has been given for

conducting a Census based audit called Shagunotsav of all government and government aided schools in all States and UTs. In 2019-20, approval has been given for an Integrated Teacher Training  Programme formulated  by  NCERT  &  National  Institute  of  Educational  Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and School Based Assessment (SBA).

4. MHRD has designed a 70 indicators based matrix Performance Grading Index (PGI) to grade the States/UTs.  To collect timely and accurate data,  a well-functioning and sustainable Educational  Management  Information  System  called UDISE+ (UDISE  plus) has  been launched in 2018-19.

5.  In 2019-20, approval has been given for setting up Youth and Eco Club in all Government Schools across the country. In order to experience  and celebrate the rich cultural diversity of India, Rangotsav was organized in schools in 2018-19.

(b) to (d): The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha has an inbuilt concurrent evaluation and monitoring system. The Ministry of Human Resource Development convenes periodic  meetings  with  State  Education  Ministers  and  Secretaries  to  review  the  progress  of Schemes.  Educational  data  is  collected  through  a  Unified  District  Information  System  for Education (UDISE) every year to assess the progress. A National Achievement Survey (NAS) across all States and UTs was conducted on 13.11.2017 to assess the learning achievement of students of classes III, V and VIII. The status of these evaluations and monitoring is placed in the  public  domain  on  the  Ministry's  website.  Further,  an  All  India  Performance  Audit  on Implementation of RTE Act, 2009 was conducted by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (C&AG) for the period extending from 2010-11 to 2015-16 and accordingly Report No. 23 of 2017 has been laid on the Table of the Parliament on 21.07.2017. An independent third party evaluation of the SSA Scheme was also conducted in 2017-18. It has pointed out that the SSA achieved considerable success in universalizing access and strengthening of infrastructure in  schools.  It  has  appreciated  the  enhanced  focus  of  SSA  on  quality  of  education  in  recent years.

Under SSA, since its inception in 2001 and Samagra Shiksha effective from 2018-19, 3.64  lakh  new  elementary  schools,  construction  of  3,12,747  school  buildings,  18,89,689 additional  classrooms,  2,40,564  drinking  water  facilities  and  10,63,164  toilet    have  been sanctioned.  Out  of  which,  States  and  UTs  have  reported  opening  up  of  3.59  lakh  new elementary schools, construction of 2,95,815 school buildings, 18,10,286 additional classrooms, 2,34,017 drinking water facilities and 10,13,609 toilets as on 31 st December, 2018.