Lok Sabha Question No. 1945 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-19
Subject: Setting up New Kendriya Vidyalayas
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sanjay(Kaka) Ramchandra Patil

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1945 ANSWERED ON 19.12.2022

## SETTING UP NEW KENDRIYA VIDYALAYAS

## 1945. SHRI SANJAY KAKA PATIL:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has taken any steps to open new Kendriya Vidyalayas;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise, particularly in the Western Maharashtra;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  taken  any  steps  to  promote  Indian  culture,  educational tradition, and value-based education along with job creation for the students;
- (d) the steps taken by the Government to counter the competition of private school in the booming education sector; and
- (e) the steps taken by the Government to target the economical weaker sections of society to take advantage of good education?

## ANSWER

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

(a) & (b) Opening of new Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) is a continuous process. KVs are opened primarily  to  cater  to  the  educational  needs  of  the  wards  of  transferable  Central  Government Employees including Defence & Para-military personnel, Central Autonomous Bodies, Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and Central Institute of Higher Learning (IHL) by providing a common programme of education throughout the country. Proposals for opening of new KVs may  be  sponsored  by  Ministries  or  Departments  of  the  Government  of  India  /  State Governments / Union Territories (UTs) Administrations, with commitment to provide requisite resources for setting up a new KV as per norms.  The proposals are subject to approval of the competent authority.

Proposals / requests for opening of new KVs at various parts of the country have been received by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) from various sponsoring authorities / public representatives. Ministry of Home Affairs has submitted a proposal for setting up of new KV at NDRF Sudumbare (Western Maharashtra).

- (c) KVS has taken following initiatives to promote Indian culture, educational tradition and valued based education along with job creation to its students;
- (i) Activities  under  Ek  Bharat  Shrestha  Bharat,  Azadi  Ka  Amrit  Mahotsav,  Bhasha Sangam.
- (ii) Awakened Citizen programme in collaboration with Ram Krishna Mission.
- (iii) Pre-vocational skill educations being taught in Classes VI to VIII.
- (iv) Vocational  Courses  like  Artificial  Intelligence  (AI),  Information  Technology  (IT) are offered as optional skill subject in Classes IX & X.

(d) Central Government Schools namely KVs and Jawahar Nvodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) are under the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education. KVs and JNVs have been constantly giving excellent results, which are above the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) average. The pass percentages of KVs and JNVs students in the X and XII board examinations conducted by CBSE are much better as compared to the results of CBSE affiliated private schools.

(e) Education is in the Concurrent List of the Constitution and majority of schools are under the  jurisdiction  of  the  respective  State  Government  and  Union  Territory  Administration  which are the appropriate Government for implementation of the provision of the Right of Children to Free  and  Compulsory  Education  (RTE)  Act,  2009.  The  RTE  Act,  2009,  mandates  the appropriate Government to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age 6 to 14 years in a neighbourhood school.  The RTE Act is applicable throughout the country.

Section 12(1)(c) of the RTE Act, 2009 provides for admission of children belonging to weaker sections and disadvantaged groups in the schools specified in sub-clauses (iii) and (iv) of clause (n) of section 2 in Class I (or below) to the extent of at least 25 percent of the strength of that class.

State/  UT  Government  is  required  to  notify  the  disadvantaged  groups  and  weaker sections,  per  child  cost  and  start  admissions  as  per  the  laid  down  procedure  and  have  a grievance  redressal  mechanism  in  place.  The  Central  Government  is  supporting  States  and UTs for re-imbursement of expenditure incurred towards payment made to private schools for admission of children under Section 12(1)(c) from 2014-15.

The  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  with  effect  from  2018-19  has launched an Integrated Centrally Sponsored Scheme for School Education- Samagra Shiksha. The  scheme  has  now  been  aligned  with  the  recommendations  of  National  Education  Policy (NEP) 2020 to ensure that all children have access to quality education with an equitable and inclusive classroom  environment  which  should  take care of their diverse  background, multilingual  needs,  different  academic  abilities  and  make  them  active  participants  in  the learning process.

Under the Scheme, financial assistance is provided to States and UTs for undertaking various  activities  for  universalisation  of  school  education  including  opening/strengthening  of new  schools  upto  senior  secondary  level,  construction  of  school  buildings  &  additional classrooms, setting up, up-gradation and running of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, setting up  of  Netaji  Subhash  Chandra  Bose  Avasiya  Vidyalayas,  free  uniforms,  free  text  books, transport allowance and undertaking enrolment & retention drives. Further, special training for age appropriate admission of out of school children and residential as well as non-residential training  for  older  children,  seasonal  hostels  /  residential  camps,  special  training  centres  at worksites,  transport/  escort  facility  are  also  supported  to  bring  out  of  school  children  to  the formal schooling system. Further, under the student oriented component for the children with special needs, financial assistance is provided for identification and assessment of children with special  needs,  aids  and  appliances,  braille  kits  and  books,  appropriate  teaching  learning material and stipend to girl students with disability etc.

From 2021-22, financial assistance upto Rs. 2000 per annum has been envisioned for supporting Out of School Children of age group of 16-19 years, belonging to socio economically disadvantaged  groups,  for  completing  their  education  through  National  Institute  of  Open Schooling / State Institute of Open Schooling, for accessing course materials and certification.