Lok Sabha Question No. 1296 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-07-25
Subject: Education in Remote/Backward Areas
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL, B.N. CHANDRAPPA, LAXMAN GILUWA, DODDAALAHALLI KEMPEGOWDA SURESH, S.P. MUDDAHANUMEGOWDA, MANOJ RAJORIA, C.S. PUTTARAJU

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1296 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25 th  JULY 2016

## Education in Remote/Backward Areas

1296.  SHRI SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL:

SHRI B.N. CHANDRAPPA:

SHRI LAXMAN GILUWA:

SHRI D.K. SURESH:

SHRI S.P. MUDDAHANUME GOWDA:

DR. MANOJ RAJORIA:

SHRI C.S. PUTTA RAJU:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) whether it is a fact that there is inadequate provisions made for education of children in backward areas of the country and if so, the details thereof;

- (b) whether the Government proposes any special scheme/drive to impart free education to the poor children particularly in remote/ backward/border/tribal areas and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise including West Bengal;
- (c)  whether  the  Government  has  identified  special  focus  districts  in  all  the  States  for  increasing quality of education to the children in said areas particularly belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and if so, the details thereof;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  proposes  any  orientation  programmes  for  regular  and  contractual teachers regarding language and culture of Scheduled Tribes in tribal areas and if so, the details thereof;

(e) whether the Government had formulated any plan to open model schools to provide qualitative education to poor children in the backward areas and if so, the details thereof along with the number of model schools opened as of now, State/UT-wise; and

(f) whether the Government is formulating any plan to stop the drop out rate of poor children and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a): No, Madam.

(b): The  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory  Education  (RTE)  Act,  2009  provides  a  legal entitlement to every child of the age of six to fourteen years for free and compulsory elementary education in a neighbourhood school. The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), which is the  designated  scheme  for  meeting  the  objective  of  RTE  Act,  2009,  provides  assistance  to  State Governments and UT Administrations for universalization of elementary education in the country. State- wise details of release of funds under SSA to States and UTs including West Bengal in the last three years are at Annexure-I.

(c): Under  the  SSA,  the  districts  with  high  concentration  of  population  of  Scheduled  Castes  (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Muslims have been identified as Special Focus Districts (SFDs). One of the criteria  for  identifying  the  SFDs  is  25%  and  above  population  of  SCs  and  STs  in  a  particular  district, 61 SC-SFDs and 109 ST-SFDs have been identified under SSA. State/UT-wise details of these SFDs are at Annexure-II.

(d): The Central Government provides financial assistance to States and UTs under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), with a focus on improving quality of education at elementary and secondary level. Under these programmes funding is provided to States and UTs  for  professional  development  of  teachers  through  in-service  training,  grant  of  Teaching  Learning Material,  training  in  multilingual  education  and  sensitization  of  teachers  to  tribal  cultures  and  practices. Under SSA, emphasis has been laid on States and UTs to recruit teachers from similar social and cultural backgrounds and provision of curricula and textbooks that are not alienating for tribal children.

(e): The  earlier  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of  Model  School  Scheme  envisaged  setting  up  of  one model school per block as a benchmark of excellence at the block level. The scheme had two modes of implementation, viz. (i) setting up of schools in educationally backward blocks (EBBs) through State/UT Governments, and (ii) the remaining schools under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode in blocks which are  not  educationally  backward.  The  scheme  has  been  delinked  from  the  support  of  the  Government  of India with effect from 2015-16 and stands transferred to States/UTs in the light of higher devolution of funds  to  States  as  envisaged  by  the  14th  Finance  Commission.  Till  31.3.2015,  a  total  of  2329  Model Schools were sanctioned in the States, details of which are given at Annexure-III.

(f): SSA  programme  provides a  number  of  incentives  to  encourage  enrolment  and  retention  and  to reduce the out of school or dropout children in schools.  These include enhancing access to primary, 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.    Since  inception  of  SSA  in 2001 till 31.3.2016, opening of 2.04 lakh new primary schools and 1.59 lakh new upper primary schools; and construction of 18.61 lakh additional classrooms have been sanctioned to States and UTs to enable the States to provide access to elementary education. In addition, 3609 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, which are residential schools for girls at upper primary level, have also been sanctioned to the States for improving access to marginalized girls particularly out of school, either drop out or never enrolled. The Mid-day Meal programme is implemented in elementary schools, to help retain children in schools.

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ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1296 FOR ANSWER ON 25.7.2016 ASKED BY SHRI SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL, SHRI  B.N.  CHANDRAPPA,  SHRI  LAXMAN  GILUWA,  SHRI  D.K.  SURESH,  SHRI  S.P. MUDDAHANUME  GOWDA,  DR.  MANOJ  RAJORIA AND SHRI C.S. PUTTA RAJU REGARDING EDUCATION IN REMOTE/BACKWARD AREAS

Statement showing release of funds under SSA to States and UTs including West Bengal in the last three years

(Rs. in Lakh)

| Sl. No.   | Name of the State   | 2013-14    | 2014-15    | 2015-16    |
|-----------|---------------------|------------|------------|------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh      | 174715.39  | 154566.68  | 66810.81   |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh   | 19261.85   | 33607.83   | 18179.44   |
| 3         | Assam               | 131820.73  | 97782.17   | 100464.64  |
| 4         | Bihar               | 261013.11  | 216336.05  | 251557.33  |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh        | 76699.64   | 92705.34   | 62219.70   |
| 6         | Goa                 | 1333.57    | 1310.38    | 813.58     |
| 7         | Gujarat             | 80559.63   | 78476.48   | 61563.82   |
| 8         | Haryana             | 35088.42   | 42110.65   | 34501.21   |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh    | 11453.10   | 12547.30   | 12139.13   |
| 10        | Jammu &Kashmir      | 89143.50   | 51276.51   | 129980.55  |
| 11        | Jharkhand           | 45010.71   | 75775.18   | 55863.31   |
| 12        | Karnataka           | 65371.33   | 66213.52   | 41759.33   |
| 13        | Kerala              | 20800.66   | 21844.02   | 12858.86   |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh      | 200408.56  | 149094.91  | 160197.85  |
| 15        | Maharashtra         | 65653.65   | 58288.54   | 41225.28   |
| 16        | Manipur             | 13193.93   | 21465.80   | 18355.46   |
| 17        | Meghalaya           | 28340.86   | 20404.51   | 16626.96   |
| 18        | Mizoram             | 10657.69   | 14739.69   | 9437.51    |
| 19        | Nagaland            | 15803.02   | 20568.72   | 8739.53    |
| 20        | Odisha              | 73956.08   | 66695.31   | 82081.65   |
| 21        | Punjab              | 38323.72   | 36215.98   | 30003.82   |
| 22        | Rajasthan           | 242488.70  | 248041.55  | 193462.09  |
| 23        | Sikkim              | 4195.08    | 4526.13    | 4054.36    |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu          | 96827.48   | 135819.79  | 82111.73   |
| 25        | Telangana           |            | 81406.88   | 21776.01   |
| 26        | Tripura             | 15991.09   | 19800.13   | 16956.97   |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh       | 466698.04  | 449867.53  | 505434.30  |
| 28        | Uttarakhand         | 22043.51   | 22880.56   | 22588.40   |
| 29        | West Bengal         | 153196.42  | 97240.30   | 84679.41   |
| 30        | A &NIslands         | 612.35     | 147.21     | 359.46     |
| 31        | Chandigarh          | 3009.26    | 3893.53    | 3521.81    |
| 32        | Dadra &N. Haveli    | 927.19     | 911.74     | 594.91     |
| 33        | Daman &Diu          | 145.54     | 72.77      | 78.38      |
| 34        | Delhi               | 8322.82    | 6223.73    | 7293.80    |
| 35        | Lakshadweep         | 0.00       | 58.83      | 139.87     |
| 36        | Pondicherry         | 443.19     | 100.00     | 583.14     |
|           | Total               | 2473509.82 | 2403016.25 |            |
|           |                     |            |            | 2159014.41 |

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1296 FOR ANSWER ON 25.7.2016 ASKED BY SHRI SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL, SHRI  B.N.  CHANDRAPPA,  SHRI  LAXMAN  GILUWA,  SHRI  D.K.  SURESH,  SHRI  S.P. MUDDAHANUME  GOWDA,  DR.  MANOJ  RAJORIA AND SHRI C.S. PUTTA RAJU REGARDING EDUCATION IN REMOTE/BACKWARD AREAS

Statement showing State-wise details of Special Focus Districts identified under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for Scheduled Castes (61 districts) and Scheduled Tribes (109 districts)

## Scheduled Caste -SFDs

| S. No   | S. No   | Districts        |
|---------|---------|------------------|
| 1       |         | Bihar            |
|         | 1       | East Champaran   |
|         | 1       | Sub Total        |
| 2       |         | Haryana          |
|         | 1       | Ambala           |
|         | 2       | Fatehabad        |
|         | 3       | Sirsa            |
|         | 3       | Sub Total        |
| 3       |         | Himachal Pradesh |
|         | 1       | Bilaspur         |
|         | 2       | Kullu            |
|         | 3       | Mandi            |
|         | 4       | Shimla           |
|         | 5       | Sirmour          |
|         | 6       | Una              |
|         | 6       | Sub Total        |
| 4       |         | Jharkhand        |
|         | 1       | Chatra           |
|         | 2       | Palamau          |
|         | 2       | Sub Total        |
| 5       |         | Karnataka        |
|         | 1       | Kolar            |
|         | 1       | Sub Total        |
| 6       |         | Punjab           |
|         | 1       | Amritsar         |
|         | 2       | Bathinda         |
|         | 3       | Faridkot         |
|         | 4       | Fatehgarh Sahib  |
|         | 5       | Hoshiarpur       |
|         | 6       | Jalandhar        |
|         | 7       | Kapurthala       |
|         | 8       | Mansa            |
|         | 9       | Moga             |
|         | 10      | Muktsar          |
|         | 11      | Nawanshahar      |
|         | 12      | Sangrur          |
|         | 12      | Sub Total        |
| 7       |         | Rajasthan        |
|         | 1       | Ganganagar       |
|         | 2       | Hanumangarh      |
|         | 2       | Sub Total        |
| 8       |         | Tamil Nadu       |
|         | 1       | Cuddalore        |

| S. No   | S. No   | Districts         |
|---------|---------|-------------------|
|         | 2       | Kancheepuram      |
|         | 3       | Nagapattinam      |
|         | 4       | Perambalur        |
|         | 5       | The Nilgiris      |
|         | 6       | Thiruvarur        |
|         | 7       | Villupuram        |
|         | 7       | Sub Total         |
| 9       |         | Uttarakhand       |
|         | 1       | Bageshwar         |
|         | 1       | Sub Total         |
| 10      |         | Uttar Pradesh     |
|         | 1       | Auraiya           |
|         | 2       | Azamgarh          |
|         | 3       | Barabanki         |
|         | 4       | Chitrakoot        |
|         | 5       | Fatehpur          |
|         | 6       | Hardoi            |
|         | 7       | Hathras           |
|         | 8       | Jalaun            |
|         | 9       | Jhansi            |
|         | 10      | Kaushambi         |
|         | 11      | Khiri             |
|         | 12      | Mahoba            |
|         | 13      | Mirzapur          |
|         | 14      | Rae Bareilly      |
|         | 15      | Sitapur           |
|         | 16      | Sonbhadra         |
|         | 17      | Unnao             |
|         | 17      | Sub Total         |
| 11      |         | West Bengal       |
|         | 1       | Bankura           |
|         | 2       | Bardhaman         |
|         | 3       | Birbhum           |
|         | 4       | Dakshin Dinajpur  |
|         | 5       | Jalpaiguri        |
|         | 6       | Kooch Bihar       |
|         | 7       | Nadia             |
|         | 8       | South 24 Parganas |
|         | 9       | Uttar Dinajpur    |
|         | 9       | Sub Total         |
|         | 61      | TOTAL             |

## Scheduled Tribe -SFDs

| S. No   | S. No   | Districts         |
|---------|---------|-------------------|
| 1       |         | Arunachal Pradesh |
|         | 1       | East Kameng       |
|         | 2       | East Siang        |
|         | 3       | Lower Subansiri   |
|         | 4       | PapumPare         |
|         | 5       | Tawang            |
|         | 6       | Tirap             |
|         | 7       | Upper Siang       |
|         | 8       | Upper Subansiri   |
|         | 9       | West Siang        |

| S. No   | S. No   | Districts                |
|---------|---------|--------------------------|
|         | 9       | Sub Total                |
| 2       |         | Assam                    |
|         | 1       | Karbi Anglong            |
|         | 2       | North Cachar Hills       |
|         | 2       | Sub Total Chhattisgarh   |
| 3       | 1       | Bastar                   |
|         | 2       | Bilaspur                 |
|         | 3       | Dantewara                |
|         | 4       | Jashpur                  |
|         | 5       | Kanker                   |
|         | 6       | Korba                    |
|         | 7       | Kowardha                 |
|         | 8       | Sarguja                  |
|         | 8       | Sub Total                |
| 4       |         | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |
|         | 1       | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |
|         | 1       | Sub Total                |
| 5       |         | Gujarat                  |
|         | 1       | Dahod                    |
|         | 2       | Dangs                    |
|         | 3 4     | Narmada Panchmahals      |
|         | 5       | Vadodara                 |
|         | 6       | Valsad                   |
| 6       | 6       | Himachal Pradesh         |
|         | 1       | Kinnaur                  |
|         | 2       | Lahaul &Spiti            |
| 7       |         | Sub Total                |
|         | 2       |                          |
|         |         | Jammu &Kashmir           |
|         | 1       | Kargil                   |
|         | 2       | Leh (Laddakh)            |
|         | 3       | Poonch                   |
|         | 4       | Rajouri                  |
|         | 4       | Sub Total                |
| 8       |         | Jharkhand                |
|         | 1       | Dumka                    |
|         | 2       | East Singhbhum           |
|         | 3       | Godda                    |
|         | 4       | Gumla                    |
|         | 5       | Lohardagga               |
|         | 6       | Pakur                    |
|         | 7 8     | Sahebganj West Singhbhum |
|         | 8       | Sub Total                |
| 9       |         | Madhya Pradesh           |
|         | 1       | AnoopPur                 |
|         | 2       | Barwani                  |
|         | 3       | Betul                    |
|         | 4       | Dhar Dindori             |
|         | 5       | East Nimar (Khandawa)    |
|         | 6       |                          |
|         | 7       | Harda                    |
|         | 8 9     | Jhabua Mandla            |
|         | 10      | Ratlam                   |

| S. No   | S. No   | Districts                        |
|---------|---------|----------------------------------|
|         | 11      | Shahdol                          |
|         | 12      | Sheopur                          |
|         | 13      | Sidhi                            |
|         | 14      | Umaria                           |
|         | 15      | Vidisha                          |
|         | 16      | Khargone (West Nimer)            |
|         | 16      | Sub Total                        |
| 10      |         | Maharashtra                      |
|         | 1       | Dhule                            |
|         | 2       | Nandurbar                        |
|         | 2       | Sub Total                        |
| 11      |         | Manipur                          |
|         | 1       | Chandel                          |
|         | 2       | Churachandpur                    |
|         | 3       | Senapati                         |
|         | 4       | Tamenglong                       |
|         | 5       | Ukhrul                           |
|         | 5       | Sub Total                        |
| 12      |         | Meghalaya                        |
|         | 1       | East Garo Hills                  |
|         | 2       | East Khasi Hills                 |
|         | 3       | Jaintia Hills                    |
|         | 4       | Ri Bhoi                          |
|         | 5       | South Garo Hills                 |
|         | 6       | West Garo Hills West Khasi Hills |
|         | 7       | Sub Total                        |
|         | 7       |                                  |
| 13      |         | Mizoram                          |
|         | 1       | Aizawal                          |
|         | 2       | Champhai                         |
|         | 3       | Kolasib                          |
|         | 4       | Lawngtlai                        |
|         | 5       | Lunglei                          |
|         | 6       | Mamit                            |
|         | 7       | Saiha                            |
|         | 8       | Serchhip                         |
|         | 8       | Sub Total                        |
| 14      |         | Nagaland                         |
|         | 1       | Dimapur                          |
|         | 2       | Kiphire                          |
|         | 3       | Kohima                           |
|         | 4       | Longleng                         |
|         | 5       | Mokokchung                       |
|         | 6       | Mon                              |
|         | 7       | Peren                            |
|         | 8       | Phek                             |
|         | 9       | Tuensang                         |
|         | 10      | Wokha                            |
|         | 11      | Zunheboto                        |
|         | 11      | Sub Total                        |
| 15      |         | Orissa                           |
|         | 1       | Bolangir                         |
|         | 2       | Debgarh                          |
|         | 3       | Gajapati                         |
|         | 4       | Kalahandi Kandhamal              |
|         | 5 6     | Keonjhar                         |

| S. No   | S. No   | Districts      |
|---------|---------|----------------|
|         | 7       | Koraput        |
|         | 8       | Malkangiri     |
|         | 9       | Mayurbhanj     |
|         | 10      | Nawarangpur    |
|         | 11      | Nuapada        |
|         | 12      | Rayagada       |
|         | 13      | Sundergarh     |
|         | 13      | Sub Total      |
| 16      |         | Rajasthan      |
|         | 1       | Banswara       |
|         | 2       | Dungarpur      |
|         | 3       | Sawai Madhopur |
|         | 4       | Udaipur        |
|         | 4       | Sub Total      |
| 17      |         | Sikkim         |
|         | 1       | Sikkim North   |
|         | 1       | Sub Total      |
| 18      |         | Telegana       |
|         | 1       | Khammam        |
|         | 1       | Sub Total      |
| 19      |         | Tripura        |
|         | 1       | Dhalai         |
|         | 1       | Sub Total      |
|         | 109     | TOTAL          |

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1296 FOR ANSWER ON 25.7.2016 ASKED BY SHRI SUNIL KUMAR MONDAL, SHRI  B.N.  CHANDRAPPA,  SHRI  LAXMAN  GILUWA,  SHRI  D.K.  SURESH,  SHRI  S.P. MUDDAHANUME  GOWDA,  DR.  MANOJ  RAJORIA AND SHRI C.S. PUTTA RAJU REGARDING EDUCATION IN REMOTE/BACKWARD AREAS

Statement showing details of Model Schools earlier sanctioned in the States

| S. No.   | State            |   No. of schools sanctioned |
|----------|------------------|-----------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh   |                         272 |
| 2        | Assam            |                          67 |
| 3        | Bihar            |                         368 |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh     |                          74 |
| 5        | Gujarat          |                          84 |
| 6        | Haryana          |                          36 |
| 7        | Himachal Pradesh |                           5 |
| 8        | Jammu &Kashmir   |                          19 |
| 9        | Jharkhand        |                          40 |
| 10       | Karnataka        |                          74 |
| 11       | Madhya Pradesh   |                         201 |
| 12       | Maharashtra      |                          43 |
| 13       | Meghalaya        |                           9 |
| 14       | Mizoram          |                           1 |
| 15       | Nagaland         |                          11 |
| 16       | Orissa           |                         162 |
| 17       | Punjab           |                          21 |
| 18       | Rajasthan        |                         134 |
| 19       | Tamil Nadu       |                          44 |
| 20       | Telangana        |                         317 |
| 21       | Tripura          |                           6 |
| 22       | Uttar Pradesh    |                         274 |
| 23       | West Bengal      |                          67 |
|          | Total            |                        2329 |