Lok Sabha Question No. 243 (STARRED), answered on 2022-03-21
Subject: Quality Education under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Unmesh Bhaiyyasaheb Patil, Heena Vijaykumar Gavit

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 243 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 st  March, 2022

Quality Education under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan

## 243.  SHRI UNMESH BHAIYYASAHEB PATIL: DR. HEENA GAVIT:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has taken steps to improve the standard of education and school infrastructure in rural India and if so, the details thereof;

(b)  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  improve  education along  with  the funds disbursed  for  Government  schools  for  infrastructure  such  as  library,  laboratory, sports facilities and teaching aids during the last three years;

(c) whether the Government has taken any steps to establish high schools and inter colleges  in  the  country  particularly  in  Madhya  Pradesh,  Maharashtra  and  West Bengal as per the norms of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and if so, the details thereof; and

(d)  the  number  of  new  high  schools  and  inter  colleges  required  in  the  country particularly in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal as per the norms of SSA?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF EDUCATION (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 243 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.03.2022 ASKED BY HON'BLE  SHRI  UNMESH  BHAIYYASAHEB  PATIL  AND  DR.  HEENA  GAVIT REGARDING QUALITY EDUCATION UNDER SAMAGRA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN

(a)  and  (b):      The  Government  is  committed  to  provide  quality  education  by enhancing  the  standard  of  education  and  school  infrastructure  in  the  country including rural India.

The following initiatives have been taken by Government of India to improve the standard of school education at all levels:

1.  The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha has been aligned to the  recommendations  of  NEP  2020.  Samagra  Shiksha  is  an  Integrated Centrally Sponsored Scheme for school education extending from pre-school to class XII and aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels  of  school  education.  Samagra  Shiksha  focuses  on  improvement  in quality  of  education  by  providing  support  for  different  interventions  like  inservice  training  of  teachers  and  school  heads,  conduct  of  achievement surveys,  composite  school  grant  to  every  school  for  providing  a  conducive learning  environment,  grants  for  library,  sports  and  physical  activities,  etc. Under the scheme, financial assistance is also provided to States and UTs for undertaking various activities to ensure universal access to education including opening/strengthening of new schools upto senior secondary level, construction  of  school  buildings  &  additional  classrooms,  up-gradation  and running  of  Kasturba  Gandhi  Balika  Vidyalayas,  setting  up  of  residential schools/hostels.
2.  National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN  Bharat)  has  been  launched  under  Samagra  Shiksha  for ensuring  that  every  child  in  the  country  necessarily  attains  foundational literacy  and  numeracy  (FLN)  by  the  end  of  Grade  3,  and  e-content  for  the same has been released in DIKSHA platform.
3.  Integrated In-service teacher training programme - NISHTHA 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 has  been  introduced  under  Samagra  Shiksha  for  different  stages  of  school

education for Teachers, Head Teachers/Principals and other stakeholders in Educational Management.

4.  Learning Outcomes for the Secondary level have been notified.
5.  National  Achievement  Survey  (NAS)  2021  has  been  conducted  on  12 th November 2021 to assess children's learning competencies as an indicator of the  health  of  the  education  system,  to  take  appropriate  steps  for  remedial actions at different levels.
6.  A  70  indicator  based  matrix  Performance  Grading  Index  (PGI)  has  been developed to grade the States/UTs. District level Performance Grading Index (PGI) has been prepared for grading of Districts.
7.  The Structured Assessment for Analyzing Learning levels (SAFAL) framework has been developed by CBSE  and launched for Competency-based assessment  for  grades  3,  5  and  8  focusing  on  core  concepts,  applicationbased questions and higher-order thinking skills.
8.  VIDYA PRAVESH-Guidelines for Three-month Play-based School Preparation  Module,  has  been  released  to  ensure  that  all  children  are exposed to a warm and welcoming environment when they enter Grade-I.
9.  Introduction  of  Indian  Sign  Language  as  a  subject  at  secondary  level  by National Institute of open Schooling (NIOS).

Further, the funds released for different infrastructure interventions under Samagra Shiksha including library rooms, laboratory, etc during last three years is as follows:

| Year                        |   2018-19 |   2019-20 |   2020-21 |
|-----------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Funds released (Rs in lakh) |    318143 |    352869 |    222754 |

(c)  and  (d):      Under  Samagra  Shiksha,  States/UTs  propose  new  schools in  their respective  Annual  Work  Plan  and  Budget  (AWP&B)  for  consideration  by  Project Approval Board (PAB) which approves the new/upgradation of schools based on the availability  of  funds,  viability  of  the  proposal  and  physical  &  financial  progress  of earlier  sanctioned  works,  as per  the  norms of  the  scheme  in  consultation  with  the State representatives.

The  state-wise  details  of  secondary  schools  and  senior  secondary  schools including  Madhya  Pradesh,  Maharashtra  and  West  Bengal  sanctioned  under erstwhile scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) till 2017-18 and Samagra Shiksha since the launch of scheme in 2018-19 are at Annexure.

Also,  as  per  GIS  based  mapping  conducted  in  the  year  2021-22  including government,  government  aided  and  private  schools,  95.48%  of  villages  were covered  by  Secondary  schools  within  a  distance  of  5  km  and  90.55%  of  villages were covered by senior secondary schools within a distance of 7 km.

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## Annexure

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  &  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 243 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.03.2022 ASKED BY HON'BLE MP SHRI UNMESH BHAIYYASAHEB PATIL AND DR. HEENA GAVIT REGARDING QUALITY EDUCATION UNDER SAMAGRA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN

## Status of New/Upgraded Schools including KGBVs under Samagra Shiksha (as on 15.03.2022)

|   Sl. No | State                       |   Secondar y |   Secondary to Higher Secondary |   Additional Subject/St ream in Higher Secondar y |   KGBVs upgraded upto Secondary/ Sr. Secondary Level |
|----------|-----------------------------|--------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS |            0 |                               1 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|        2 | ANDHRA PRADESH              |           96 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                  352 |
|        3 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH           |           84 |                               1 |                                                 0 |                                                   26 |
|        4 | ASSAM                       |           12 |                               9 |                                                 0 |                                                   67 |
|        5 | BIHAR                       |         1153 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                   92 |
|        6 | CHANDIGARH                  |            2 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|        7 | CHHATTISGAR H               |         1481 |                              22 |                                                 0 |                                                   47 |
|        8 | DELHI                       |            0 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|        9 | DND - DNH                   |            3 |                               0 |                                                 1 |                                                    0 |
|       10 | GOA                         |            0 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|       11 | GUJARAT                     |          537 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                   75 |
|       12 | HARYANA                     |           56 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                   24 |
|       13 | HIMACHAL PRADESH            |          176 |                               1 |                                                 0 |                                                    7 |
|       14 | JAMMU AND KASHMIR           |          661 |                              12 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|       15 | JHARKHAND                   |         1189 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                  203 |
|       16 | KARNATAKA                   |          428 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                    3 |
|       17 | KERALA                      |          112 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|       18 | LADAKH                      |           25 |                               3 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|       19 | LAKSHADWEEP                 |            0 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|       20 | MADHYA PRADESH              |         1856 |                               0 |                                               525 |                                                   66 |
|       21 | MAHARASHTR A                |            0 |                               0 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |
|       22 | MANIPUR                     |          190 |                              11 |                                                 0 |                                                   10 |
|       23 | MEGHALAYA                   |           81 |                               6 |                                                 0 |                                                    0 |

| 24    | MIZORAM       |    99 |   20 |    8 |    0 |
|-------|---------------|-------|------|------|------|
| 25    | NAGALAND      |   164 |    7 |    0 |    0 |
| 26    | ODISHA        |   874 |    7 |    0 |  182 |
| 27    | PUDUCHERRY    |     9 |    1 |    0 |    0 |
| 28    | PUNJAB        |   322 |   12 |  174 |    0 |
| 29    | RAJASTHAN     |   340 |    3 |  352 |    0 |
| 30    | SIKKIM        |    21 |    9 |    0 |    1 |
| 31    | TAMIL NADU    |  1117 |    6 |    0 |   14 |
| 32    | TELANGANA     |     8 |    0 |    0 |  475 |
| 33    | TRIPURA       |   117 |    2 |   18 |    7 |
| 34    | UTTAR PRADESH |  1592 |   18 |    0 |  426 |
| 35    | UTTARAKHAND   |   281 |    0 |    0 |    8 |
| 36    | WEST BENGAL   |     7 |    0 |    0 |   10 |
| Total | Total         | 13093 |  151 | 1078 | 2237 |