Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
(RMSA)
The
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan is a flagship scheme of Government of
India, launched in March, 2009, to enhance access to secondary education and
improve its quality. The implementation of the scheme started from 2009-10 to
generate human capital and provide sufficient conditions for accelerating
growth and development and equity as also quality of life for everyone in
India.
Currently
in its fourth year of implementation, RMSA covers 50,000 government and local
body secondary schools. Besides this, an additional of 30,000 aided secondary
schools can also access the benefits of RMSA; but not infrastructure and
support in core areas.
Factual
Information:
- Launched
in 2009
- Targeted
Teacher : Student ratio = 1:30
Ministry/Department:
Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource
Development
Goals
& Objectives:
- Establishing
Secondary School within a radius of 5kms.
- Achieving
75% access by 2012-13 and 100% access by 2017-18.
- Achieving
100% retention by 2020.
- Providing
necessary physical facilities, teaching and non – teaching staff for every
secondary school
- To
see that no student shall be deprived of secondary education because of
gender disparity, socioeconomic reasons, disability or any other reasons.
·
To enhance access to secondary education
and to improve its quality
Core
Purpose of RMSA
The
core purpose and long term aim of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) is
as follows:
- To
improve the overall quality of education imparted at the secondary level.
And this is possible by through making all secondary schools conform to
all the norms that the authority prescribes to.
- To
remove barriers of gender, socio-economic and disability. These barriers
are more like social prejudices which only interfere with the process of
widening one’s mindset.
- Further,
universal access to secondary level education by 2017 (which is the XII
Five Year Plan).
- Rather
ambitious goals of universal retention of students by the year 2020.
Scheme:
- The
scheme envisages to enhance the enrolment at secondary stage by providing
a secondary school within a reasonable distance of any habitation, with an
aim to ensure GER of 100% by 2017, i.e., by the end of
12th Five Year Plan and
- Achieving universal
retention by 2020.
- The
scheme provides financial support for additional class rooms, labs, art
rooms, toilet blocks, drinking water facilities, residential hostels,
appointment of additional teachers, teacher’s training etc.
Major
Heads of the RMSA
There
are 4 major heads or chief-in-charge of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha
Abhiyan.
- Quality
improvement. In schools, there was a
promotion of environmental education and science laboratories. In
addition, RMSA looks into the promotion of central sponsorship schemes of
the population education project, international
mathematics and science Olympiads. The state governments also
provide in-service training for the teachers, infrastructure and research
inputs.
- Access
and equity. RMSA does not only emphasize
on providing secondary education for the special focus groups but also
gives importance on removing the existing disparities in socio-economic
and gender background in the secondary level of education.
- Information
communication technologies (ICT). Due to a
rise in IT demand in, importance is given on ITC. Components of a merged
scheme ICT in school include funding support towards computer education
plans; strengthening and reorientation of the staffs; digitization using
audio and video cassettes with the partnership of NGOs; and management of
Internet-based education.
- Integrated
education for disabled children (IEDC): It
includes several components for convergence with integrated child
development services for early interventions, Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan (SSA) for the particular group at the elementary level, and
special schools.
Framework:
- The
scheme is being implemented by the State government societies established
for implementation of the scheme.
- The
central share is released to the implementing agency directly.
- The
applicable State share is also released to the implementing agency by the
respective State Governments.
Activities
taken up under RMSA
- Construction of
Additional Classrooms for quality improvement
in the school infrastructure and school buildings are strengthened
- Laboratory
construction of integrated Science Laboratory of
Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics for quality learning
- Laboratory
Equipment providing laboratory equipment for
the newly constructed laboratories. Providing grant for existing laboratories
for the purchase of additional equipment
- Supply
of Furniture and Equipment furniture of
Headmaster room, Office room, Computer room, Art/Craft, & Library
- Separate
Toilet blocks for boys and girls & drinking water facility for all
secondary schools
- Annual
grants for Schools: Rs. 50,000 annual
grant is given to all schools for the purchase of teaching Learning
Material, Games equipment, Music, Drawing, Art education material and
maintenance
- Minor
Repair grants: Every secondary school having own
building will be given Rs. 25,000 annually for Minor repairs of the School
- Major
Repair grants for Schools: Annual Grants for
major repairs to the class rooms having own building will be given Rs.2.00
Lakhs maximum for having two sections and Rs.4.00 Lakhs maximum for having
4 sections
- Laboratory
maintenance grants: For the purchase
of laboratory equipment maintenance Rs. 25,000 will be provided.
- Library,
News Paper grants:For every secondary school
library books worth Rs.1.00 Lakh would be provided. Rs. 10,000 for every
school for the purchase of magazines, news papers and purchase of new
books to the library will be provided annually.
Progress
Made Under RMSA
- It
is decided to inaugurate additional class rooms in 1000 Secondary School
- In
the year 2010-11 additional class rooms to 487 Secondary Schools were
sanctioned preparatory activities for construction are under progress
- In-service
Teacher Training: Total of 49,836 teachers were
trained for 5 days in a residential mode during the summer vacation of
2009-10 in the school subjects. In the year 2010-11 during summer vacation
a total of 38,136 teachers were trained for 5 days in a residential mode
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