Lok Sabha Question No. 320 (STARRED), answered on 2015-12-21
Subject: National Literacy Mission
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: NEELAM SONKER, N.K. PREMACHANDRAN

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

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO.320 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.12.2015

## National Literacy Mission

## †*320. SHRIMATI NEELAM SONKER: SHRI N.K. PREMACHANDRAN:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) the details of the funds sanctioned and incurred on the National Literacy Mission (NLM) during the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise and the achievements made so far under the said scheme; (b)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  provide  special  assistance  to  the  States  with  low levels of adult female literacy in order to achieve hundred per cent female literacy by the end of the current Five Year Plan period; (c)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  supply  educational  tools,  uniform  and  food  to  all students  belonging  to  below  poverty  line  upto  Tenth  standard  so  as  to  contain  dropout  of students in schools; (d) if so, the details thereof and the corrective action taken by the Government in this regard; and (e)  the  financial  assistance  extended  by  the  Government  for  achieving  hundred  per  cent literacy in the country during the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SMT. SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

(a) to (e) A statement is laid on the table of the House.

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  TO  (e)  OF  THE  LOK SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  320  FOR  21.12.2015  ASKED  BY  SHRIMATI NEELAM SONKER AND SHRI N.K. PREMACHANDRAN REGARDING 'NATIONAL LITERACY MISSION'.

(a)  A  statement  indicating  State/UT-wise  grants  approved  and  central  share  released  under Saakshar Bharat, the new variant of National Literacy Mission during the last three years and current  year  is  at Annexure-I .  The  achievements  under  the  programme inter-alia include certification of about 3.66 crore learners including 2.62 crore women as literates in the biannual assessment tests conducted under Basic Literacy with the help of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) upto March 2015; setting up of 1.54 lakh Adult Education Centres (AECs) in equal number of gram panchayats under continuing education; engagement of 2.79 lakh preraks in these AECs; production and distribution of 48.16 million primers in 13 Indian languages and 26 dialects; etc.

(b)  Under Saakshar Bharat rural areas of 410 districts in 27 States/UT that had adult female literacy  rate  of  50  per  cent  or  below  as  per  Census  2001  including  left  wing  extremism affected districts, irrespective of their literacy rates are being covered. The main target of the scheme is to achieve 80 percent literacy rate & reduce gender gap to 10 percentage points by the end of XII Five Year Plan.

(c) & (d) The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) norms provide for two sets of uniforms for all girls, and children belonging to SC/ST/BPL families in Government schools within a ceiling of Rs.400/- per child per annum.

SSA  also  provides  financial  support  for  providing  textbooks  to  all  children  in Government/Local  Body  and  Government  aided  schools,  including  Madarsas  desirous  of introducing  the  State  curriculum,  within  an  upper  ceiling  of  Rs.150/-  per  child  at  primary level and Rs. 250/- per child at upper primary level.

Further, SSA programme provides a number of incentives to encourage enrolment and retention and to reduce dropout of children in schools.  These include enhancing access to primary and upper primary schools, strengthening school infrastructure like school building, additional classrooms, toilets, drinking water facilities etc., improving the teacher-pupil ratio as  well  as  strategies  for  gender  positive  textbooks,  gender  sensitization  of  teachers  and educational administrators. In addition, 3602  Kasturba  Gandhi  Balika Vidyalayas or residential schools for girls belonging predominantly to the SC, ST, OBC and minorities at upper primary level in educationally backward blocks of the country have been set up.

Under Mid Day Meal programme (MDM) hot cooked meal is served to all the eligible children  of  class  I  to  VIII  of  Government  and  Government-aided  schools,  special  training centres and Madarsas & Maqtabs supported under SSA on all the working school days.

(e)  The  central  share  released  under  Saakshar  Bharat  to  the  States/UT  is  already  given  at Annexure-I.  A  statement  indicating  State/UT-wise  grants  released  under  Sarva  Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) during the last three years and the current year is at Annexure-II .

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 320 FOR 21.12.2015 ASKED BY SHRIMATI NEELAM SONKER  AND  SHRI  N.K.  PREMACHANDRAN  REGARDING  'NATIONAL LITERACY MISSION'

State/UT-wise total grants approved and central share released under Saakshar Bharat programme

(Rs. in lakh)

| Sl. No.   | State / UT        |   Total Grants Approved | 2012-13          | 2013-14          |   2014-15 |   2015-16 (as on 15.12.2015) |
|-----------|-------------------|-------------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------|------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |                46316.1  | 11605.83         | 6921.76          |   3432    |                      1950    |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |                 7041.2  | 0                | 1417.84          |   1224.73 |                         0    |
| 3         | Assam             |                11151.4  | 0                | 1620             |    913.5  |                      1319.76 |
| 4         | Bihar             |                52882.4  | 703.88           | 6226.09          |   4788    |                      3900    |
| 5         | Chhasttisgarh     |                30805    | 9347.2           | 1875             |   2250    |                         0    |
| 6         | D&N Haveli        |                   79.82 | 0                | 0                |      0    |                         0    |
| 7         | Gujarat           |                22149.8  | 925.12           | 0                |      0    |                         0    |
| 8         | Haryana           |                 9834.93 | 0                | 0                |   2546.35 |                         0    |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |                 1112.32 | 269.84           | 0                |    156    |                         0    |
| 10        | Jammu &Kashmir    |                 5501.31 | 0                | 0                |      0    |                         0    |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |                22518.4  | 2581.46          | 0                |      0    |                      1837.5  |
| 12        | Karnataka         |                24848    | 4011.44          | 1575.19          |    750    |                       780    |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh    |                42275    | 0                | 0                |   2496    |                         0    |
| 14        | Maharashtra       |                22744.1  | 0                | 0                |   3375    |                         0    |
| 15        | Manipur           |                 1466.13 | 0                | 274.48           |    122.76 |                       135.01 |
| 16        | Meghalaya         |                 1340.83 | 0                | 0                |      0    |                         0    |
| 17        | Nagaland          |                 1455.63 | 327.1            | 198              |    256.47 |                         0    |
| 18        | Odisha            |                11998.8  | 1512.12          | 228.16           |      0    |                         0    |
| 19        | Punjab            |                 6939.26 | 0                | 0                |      0    |                         0    |
| 20        | Rajasthan         |                45173.1  | 0                | 4017             |   3215.54 |                         0    |
| 21        | Sikkim            |                  239.54 | 0                | 66.8             |      0    |                         0    |
| 22        | Tamil Nadu        |                14190.9  | 1375.04          | 2597.4           |      0    |                      1209    |
| 23        | Telangana         |                41406.9  | Not in existance | Not in existance |   3432    |                      1725    |
| 24        | Tripura           |                  355.42 | 123.82           | 0                |      0    |                         0    |
| 25        | Uttar Pradesh     |               145531    | 0                | 0                |   3978    |                      7800    |
| 26        | Uttarakhand       |                10708    | 547.53           | 1563.12          |    781.88 |                       624    |
| 27        | West Bengal       |                16664.3  | 2952.05          | 72.13            |    916.5  |                       780    |
|           | Total             |               596729    | 36282.43         | 28652.97         |  34634.7  |                     22060.3  |

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (e)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  320  for  21.12.2015  ASKED  BY  SHRIMATI  NEELAM SONKER  AND  SHRI  N.K.  PREMACHANDRAN  REGARDING  'NATIONAL LITERACY MISSION'

## State-wise Central Releases under SSA

| Sl. No.   | Name of the State   | Release    | Release    | Release    | Release                    |
|-----------|---------------------|------------|------------|------------|----------------------------|
| Sl. No.   | Name of the State   | 2012-13    | 2013-14    | 2014-15    | 2015-16 (as on 16.11.2015) |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh      | 141049.46  | 174715.39  | 154566.68  | 44702.95                   |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh   | 43764.67   | 19261.85   | 33607.83   | 20190.17                   |
| 3         | Assam               | 130881.60  | 131820.73  | 97782.17   | 61985.94                   |
| 4         | Bihar               | 275462.25  | 261013.11  | 216336.05  | 174379.03                  |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh        | 85015.73   | 76699.64   | 92705.34   | 46851.63                   |
| 6         | Goa                 | 1013.04    | 1333.57    | 1310.38    | 560.36                     |
| 7         | Gujarat             | 113918.08  | 80559.63   | 78476.48   | 45196.03                   |
| 8         | Haryana             | 33810.35   | 35088.42   | 42110.65   | 26816.32                   |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh    | 10737.30   | 11453.10   | 12547.30   | 8529.54                    |
| 10        | Jammu& Kashmir      | 50805.85   | 89143.50   | 51276.51   | 46008.43                   |
| 11        | Jharkhand           | 56183.87   | 45010.71   | 75775.18   | 38631.98                   |
| 12        | Karnataka           | 68450.58   | 65371.33   | 66213.52   | 15056.64                   |
| 13        | Kerala              | 13449.14   | 20800.66   | 21844.02   | 6289.18                    |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh      | 135343.30  | 200408.56  | 149094.91  | 120286.36                  |
| 15        | Maharashtra         | 106854.62  | 65653.65   | 58288.54   | 25993.98                   |
| 16        | Manipur             | 17362.44   | 13193.93   | 21465.80   | 3526.43                    |
| 17        | Meghalaya           | 18670.78   | 28340.86   | 20404.51   | 5005.32                    |
| 18        | Mizoram             | 15317.60   | 10657.69   | 14739.69   | 6189.83                    |
| 19        | Nagaland            | 11231.95   | 15803.02   | 20568.72   | -                          |
| 20        | Odisha              | 104307.62  | 73956.08   | 66695.31   | 59829.94                   |
| 21        | Punjab              | 49472.68   | 38323.72   | 36215.98   | 16931.92                   |
| 22        | Rajasthan           | 153520.11  | 242488.70  | 248041.55  | 125653.50                  |
| 23        | Sikkim              | 2693.85    | 4195.08    | 4526.13    | 2138.81                    |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu          | 71637.13   | 96827.48   | 135819.79  | 55209.42                   |
| 25        | Telangana           | 0.00       | 0.00       | 81406.88   | 5116.38                    |
| 26        | Tripura             | 12010.11   | 15991.09   | 19800.13   | 11389.00                   |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh       | 375476.26  | 466698.04  | 449867.53  | 347261.98                  |
| 28        | Uttarakhand         | 17941.10   | 22043.51   | 22880.56   | 10263.48                   |
| 29        | West Bengal         | 258056.58  | 153196.42  | 97240.30   | 52202.46                   |
| 30        | A&N Islands         | 1089.28    | 612.35     | 147.21     | -                          |
| 31        | Chandigarh          | 1772.64    | 3009.26    | 3893.53    | 1286.12                    |
| 32        | D&N Haveli          | 652.76     | 927.19     | 911.74     | 462.00                     |
| 33        | Daman &Diu          | 433.12     | 145.54     | 72.77      | 78.38                      |
| 34        | Delhi               | 4293.24    | 8322.82    | 6223.73    | 3184.24                    |
| 35        | Lakshadweep         | 57.62      | 0.00       | 58.83      | 33.55                      |
| 36        | Puducherry          | 918.91     | 443.19     | 100.00     | 94.60                      |
|           | Total               | 2383655.62 | 2473509.82 | 2403016.25 | 1387335.90                 |

(Rs. in Lakh)