Lok Sabha Question No. 164 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-18
Subject: Schools in Maharashtra
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sunil Dattatray Tatkare

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## MINISTRY OF EDUCATION LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 164 TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.07.2022

## Schools in Maharashtra

164. SHRI SUNIL DATTATRAY TATKARE:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  details  of  pre-primary  and  upper  primary  schools  running  in  the  country especially in Maharashtra along with the details of rules and infrastructure prescribed for opening of said schools;
- (b) the details of provisions made by the Government for ensuring free education to the children of SC/ST, poor and backward families;
- (c) whether the Government plans to set up primary schools in the Scheduled Caste dominated and backward areas of Maharashtra and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the quantum of funds allocated for this purpose and the time by which these are likely to be established?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SHRIMATI ANNPURNA DEVI)

- (a): Education is in the concurrent list of the Constitution and most of the schools are under the jurisdiction of concerned States & UTs. State and UT Governments are the appropriate  Governments  under  the  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory Education  (RTE)  Act,  2009,  and  have  the  responsibility  and  mandate  to  provide school  infrastructure in  schools  in  accordance  with  the  norms  laid  down  in  the Schedule to the RTE Act, 2009 and as per respective State RTE Rules. The details

of  pre-primary  and  upper  primary  schools  running  in  the  country  is  enclosed  at Annexure.

(b)  and  (c):  The  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory  Education  (RTE)  Act, 2009,  mandates  the  appropriate  Government  to  provide  free  and  compulsory elementary  education  to  every  child  of  the  age  6  to  14  years  in  a  neighbourhood school. Education is a subject in the concurrent list of the Constitution and majority of the schools are under  the control of the  respective  State/UT  Governments. Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  (DoSEL),  Ministry  of  Education  is implementing Samagra Shiksha to support States and UTs in implementation of the RTE Act, 2009. Ensuring equity and inclusion at all levels of school education is one of the major objectives of Samagra Shiksha.

Samagra Shiksha attempts to reach out to girls, and children belonging to SC, ST, Minority communities, etc. SC, ST and minority Special Focus Districts (SFDs) have been  identified  on  the  basis  of  adverse  performance  on  various  indicators  of enrolment,  retention,  and  gender  parity,  as  well  as  concentration  of  SC,  ST  and minority  communities.  The  major  interventions  of  Samagra  Shiksha  include  RTE entitlements under which two sets of uniforms for all girls, and children belonging to SC/ST/BPL  families'  in  Government  schools  up  to  class  VIII  are  provided  and provision is also made for textbooks to all children including SC/ST in Government/Local Body and Government aided schools, including Madarsas. Under Samagra  Shiksha,  there  is  a  provision  of  Kasturba  Gandhi  Balika  Vidyalayas (KGBVs). KGBVs are residential schools from class VI to XII for girls belonging to disadvantaged  groups  such  as  SC,  ST,  OBC,  Minority  and  Below  Poverty  Line (BPL).

Netaji  Subhash  Chandra  Bose  (NSCB)  Awasiya  Vidyalayas  and  Hostels  under Samagra Shiksha are support for reaching out to children in sparsely populated, or hilly and densely forested areas with difficult geographical terrain and border areas where  opening  a  new  primary  or  upper  primary  school  and  Secondary/Senior Secondary  schools  may  not  be  viable.  Preference  are  given  to  Educationally Backward  Blocks  (EBBs),  LWEs,  Special  Focus  Districts  (SFDs)  and  the  115 aspirational districts.

15% seats for Scheduled Caste and 7.5% seats for Scheduled Tribes are reserved in  all  fresh  admissions  in  all  Kendriya  Vidyalayas.  Those  SC/ST students  who are admitted under RTE quota are exempted from payment of fee and also are provided with free books, uniform, stationary and transportation. Also, there are provision for reservation of seats in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in favour of children belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled Tribes.

The  Central  Sector  Scheme  'National  Means-cum-Merit  Scholarship  Scheme'  has objective  to  award  scholarships  to  meritorious  students  of  economically  weaker sections to arrest  their  drop  out  at  class  VIII  and  encourage  them  to  continue  the study at secondary stage.

(d): Under Centrally Sponsored scheme of Samagra Shiksha financial assistance is provided  as  per  the  fund  sharing  pattern  as  decided  by  the  Ministry  of  Finance. Under the scheme, the annual plans are prepared by the States and UTs based on their  requirements  and  gaps  identified  by  the  States/  UTs  from  school  mapping exercise,  which  are  appraised  &  viable  proposals  are  approved  by  the  Project Approval  Board  (PAB)  in  consultation with the  States  and  UTs  as  per  the programmatic  and  financial  norms  of  the  scheme,  and  physical  and  financial progress of the State for the interventions approved earlier.

The funds are released on the basis of submission of Audited Accounts, Utilization Certificate, physical and financial progress and other documents as prescribed under the  Financial  Management  &  Procurement  (FMP)  Manual  of  Samagra  Shiksha. Status of funds allocated and released to the State Government of Maharashtra from the year 2018-19 under Samagra Shiksha is as follows:-

(Rs in Lakh)

| Year    |   Funds allocated |
|---------|-------------------|
| 2018-19 |           98130.8 |
| 2019-20 |          101622   |
| 2020-21 |          101370   |
| 2021-22 |          101370   |

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 164 TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.07.2022 ASKED BY HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SHRI SUNIL DATTATRAY TATKARE REGARDING 'SCHOOLS IN MAHARASHTRA'

| State/UTs                            | Number of Govt. Pre- Primary Schools   | Number of Govt. Primary Schools/Section   | Number of Govt. Upper Primary Schools/Section   |
|--------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|                                      | 2020-21                                | 2020-21                                   | 2020-21                                         |
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands            | 292                                    | 318                                       | 153                                             |
| Andhra Pradesh                       | 3662                                   | 38787                                     | 10844                                           |
| Arunachal Pradesh                    | 612                                    | 2872                                      | 1279                                            |
| Assam                                | 25197                                  | 39844                                     | 9565                                            |
| Bihar                                | 224                                    | 69339                                     | 29140                                           |
| Chandigarh                           | 106                                    | 119                                       | 112                                             |
| Chhattisgarh                         | 106                                    | 30923                                     | 13495                                           |
| Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 77                                     | 318                                       | 159                                             |
| Delhi                                | 1613                                   | 2172                                      | 1115                                            |
| Goa                                  | 65                                     | 730                                       | 123                                             |
| Gujarat                              | 154                                    | 32934                                     | 21139                                           |
| Haryana                              | 1681                                   | 8734                                      | 5875                                            |
| Himachal Pradesh                     | 3963                                   | 10622                                     | 4808                                            |
| Jammu & Kashmir                      | 11455                                  | 22042                                     | 9698                                            |
| Jharkhand                            | 15978                                  | 34681                                     | 13858                                           |
| Karnataka                            | 1673                                   | 43613                                     | 23801                                           |
| Kerala                               | 3360                                   | 4294                                      | 2191                                            |
| Ladakh                               | 771                                    | 845                                       | 481                                             |
| Lakshadweep                          | 20                                     | 35                                        | 19                                              |
| Madhya Pradesh                       | 1516                                   | 79792                                     | 30437                                           |
| Maharashtra                          | 2697                                   | 65080                                     | 22360                                           |
| Manipur                              | 710                                    | 2793                                      | 970                                             |
| Meghalaya                            | 4632                                   | 5475                                      | 2346                                            |
| Mizoram                              | 410                                    | 1286                                      | 960                                             |
| Nagaland                             | 1716                                   | 1780                                      | 928                                             |
| Odisha                               | 767                                    | 46670                                     | 21278                                           |
| Puducherry                           | 298                                    | 325                                       | 178                                             |
| Punjab                               | 12893                                  | 13026                                     | 6427                                            |
| Rajasthan                            | 2293                                   | 68099                                     | 34614                                           |
| Sikkim                               | 774                                    | 843                                       | 387                                             |
| Tamilnadu                            | 7437                                   | 31447                                     | 13271                                           |
| Telangana                            | 654                                    | 24228                                     | 9776                                            |
| Tripura                              | 91                                     | 4195                                      | 2120                                            |
| Uttar Pradesh                        | 3538                                   | 112609                                    | 47584                                           |
| Uttarakhand                          | 10                                     | 11705                                     | 4750                                            |
| West Bengal                          | 65114                                  | 67506                                     | 16282                                           |
| INDIA                                | 176559                                 | 880081                                    | 362523                                          |