Lok Sabha Question No. 3090 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-15
Subject: Fund Allocation and Expenditure under RMSA
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3090 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15thMARCH, 2021

## Fund Allocation and Expenditure under RMSA

## 3090. COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE :

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of quantum of funds allocated under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) during the last five years, State and district- wise including Rajasthan State;
- (b) the details of expenditures incurred under RMSA during the last five years, State and district-wise, including Rajasthan State;
- (c) the current capacity of schools at the primary level to be upgraded to Centres of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, State and district-wise, including Rajasthan State;
- (d) the details and number of teachers available in rural areas, along with potential incentives offered by the Government under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) and RMSA;
- (e) the details of incentives to be offered to teachers to induce them to provide education in rural areas; and
- (f) the performance of States on education related performance indicators at district level, including Rajasthan State?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF EDUCATION

(SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

(a) and (b) : 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), with effect from 2018-19. Under the schemes, funds are released State/UT wise and not district wise. The State-wise detail of funds released and expenditure incurred (including Rajasthan) under Samagra Shiksha (Secondary Education) and erstwhile RMSA scheme during last five years is given at Annexure-I.

(c) : The Samagra Shiksha scheme aims to provide universal access to secondary school within a distance of 5 Km and Senior secondary schools within 7-10 Km of a habitation by providing support to States and UTs for establishment of new schools by up-gradation of upper primary school to secondary schools and up-gradation of Secondary Schools to Senior Secondary Schools.

As per Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping through Buffer analysis including Government, Government aided and private schools, 95.48% of villages were covered by Secondary schools within a distance of 5km and 90.50% of villages were covered by Higher Secondary Schools within a distance of 7km. The State wise detail of Gross Access Ratio (GAR) is given at Annexure II.

(d) and (e) : As per UDISE 2018-19, there is a total number of 4241519 Government teachers in Rural Area. The salary and allowances payable to, and the terms and conditions of service of, teacher, including incentives are governed by rules made by respective State Governments /UTs as Education is in the concurrent list of the Constitution. Under Samagra Shiksha, financial assistance is provided to States & UTs, inter-alia, for supporting salary of additional teachers approved under the scheme to maintain prescribed Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR).

Under the scheme of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), financial support towards the component Faculty Recruitment is provided to State Governments to fill up the positions at the level of Assistant Professor or equivalent cadre which are recruited as per UGC regulations and norms. Only those States that have filled up at least 85% of the sanctioned posts and create additional (sanctioned) posts are considered. Under the component, central support amounting to Rs. 29.58 crore has been approved for a total of 212 posts. No such financial support has been approved for the State of Rajasthan under this component.

(f) : The States and UTs including Rajasthan have been assessed in 2017-18 and 2018-19 based on their performance. The Performance Grade Index (PGI) based on 70 indicators can be viewed in public domain in https://www.education.gov.in/hi/statistics-new PGI Report 2018-19(Hindi) PGI Report 2018-19 (English), PGI Report 2017-18 etc.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3090 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15 th MARCH, 2021 ASKED BY COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING 'FUND ALLOCATION AND EXPENDITURE UNDER RMSA'

State/UT-wise detail of Central share released and Expenditure incurred during the last 5 years under RMSA/ Secondary Component of Samagra Shiksha.

(Rs. in lakh)

| State             |   Central Share Released |     Expenditure* |
|-------------------|--------------------------|------------------|
| A & N Islands     |           3208.22        |   2889.23        |
| Andhra Pradesh    |          88159.9         | 166415           |
| Arunachal Pradesh |          17697.8         |  16293.4         |
| Assam             |          80284.4         | 131381           |
| Bihar             |          54180.2         |  85297.4         |
| Chandigarh        |           2092.21        |   1703.8         |
| Chhattisgarh      |          95410.7         | 227996           |
| Dadra & N. Haveli |            999.52        |    792.56        |
| Daman & Diu       |           5572.77        |  12809           |
| Delhi             |           6784.65        |   8908           |
| Goa               |           1570.06        |   2924.17        |
| Gujarat           |          45735.5         |  71970.9         |
| Haryana           |          85248.9         | 142562           |
| Himachal Pradesh  |          68897.2         |  87314.4         |
| Jammu & Kashmir   |          99767.5         |  91236.7         |
| Jharkhand         |          27855.8         | 109546           |
| Karnataka         |          44005.2         |  92314.8         |
| Kerala            |          24021.7         |  41255.8         |
| Ladakh            |           2252.59        |      0           |
| Lakshadweep       |            215.65        |    159.77        |
| Madhya Pradesh    |         192965           | 313629           |
| Maharashtra       |          68204.2         | 154969           |
| Manipur           |          32742.9         |  39827.8         |
| Meghalaya         |           5992.53        |  10133.6         |
| Mizoram           |          14641.7         |  17091.1         |
| Nagaland          |          25953           |  24410.2         |
| Odisha            |          83312           | 158105           |
| Puducherry        |            886.22        |   3023.68        |
| Punjab            |          34679.3         |  97990.5         |
| Rajasthan         |         197951           | 332885           |
| Sikkim            |          12204.3         |  13479.1         |
| Tamil Nadu        |         178932           | 326449           |
| Telangana         |          86177.5         | 147157           |
| Tripura           |          14429.6         |  21250.7         |
| Uttar Pradesh     |          70868.2         | 191068           |
| Uttarakhand       |          47948.4         |  66435.3         |
| West Bengal       |          25992.9         |  77362.5         |
| Total             |              1.84784e+06 |      3.28904e+06 |

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3090 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15 th MARCH, 2021 ASKED BY COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE, HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING 'FUND ALLOCATION AND EXPENDITURE UNDER RMSA'

## GROSS ACCESS RATIO (GAR) Secondary and Higher Secondary level

(In percentage)

| State                               |   Secondary |   Higher Secondary |
|-------------------------------------|-------------|--------------------|
| Andaman & Nicobar                   |       79    |              73.49 |
| Andhra Pradesh                      |       90.11 |              39.97 |
| Arunachal Pradesh                   |       50.41 |              44.34 |
| Assam                               |       97.18 |              91.37 |
| Bihar                               |       99.24 |              98.9  |
| Chandigarh                          |      100    |             100    |
| Chhattisgarh                        |       86.54 |              91.09 |
| Dadra, Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu |      100    |             100    |
| Delhi                               |      100    |             100    |
| Goa                                 |       94.15 |              85.09 |
| Gujarat                             |       95.39 |              91.99 |
| Haryana                             |       99.79 |              99.97 |
| Himachal Pradesh                    |       99.37 |              99.49 |
| Jammu & Kashmir                     |       98.51 |              97.98 |
| Jharkhand                           |       88.36 |              78.69 |
| Karnataka                           |       96.27 |              76.3  |
| Kerala                              |       99.63 |              99.63 |
| Ladakh                              |       62.92 |              46.25 |
| Lakshadweep                         |       50    |              50    |
| Madhya Pradesh                      |       94.61 |              92.13 |
| Maharashtra                         |       97.59 |              93.39 |
| Manipur                             |       76.72 |              57.46 |
| Meghalaya                           |       89.63 |              62.76 |
| Mizoram                             |       84.85 |              50.19 |
| Nagaland                            |       86.96 |              49.31 |
| Odisha                              |       95.49 |              77.63 |
| Puducherry                          |      100    |             100    |
| Punjab                              |       99.96 |              99.97 |
| Rajasthan                           |       97.8  |              98.9  |
| Sikkim                              |       98.86 |              97.95 |
| Tamil Nadu                          |       99.02 |              98.92 |
| Telangana                           |       96.25 |              73.36 |
| Tripura                             |       94.33 |              94.69 |
| Uttar Pradesh                       |       95.03 |              96.7  |
| Uttarakhand                         |       99.37 |              99.37 |
| West Bengal                         |       99.33 |              99.6  |
| INDIA                               |       95.48 |              90.5  |