RMSA (Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan)

Smagra Shiksha (Secondary) – Salem District

 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.

OBJECTIVES

• The scheme envisages to achieve a gross enrolment ratio of 75% from 52.26% in 2005-06 for classes IX-X within 5 years of its implementation, by providing a secondary school within reasonable distance of any habitation.
• Improve the quality of education imparted at secondary level by making all secondary schools conform to prescribed norms.
• Remove gender, socio-economic and disability barriers.
• Provide universal access to secondary level education by 2017, i.e. by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan
• Enhance and universalize retention by 2020

Physical Facilities

• Additional class rooms
• Laboratories
• Libraries
• Art and crafts room
• Toilet blocks
• Drinking water provisions
• Residential Hostels for Teachers in remote areas.

Quality Interventions

• Appointment of additional teachers to reduce PTR to 30:1
• Focus on Science, Math and English education
• In-service training of teachers
• Science laboratories
• ICT enabled education
• Curriculum reforms; and
• Teaching learning reforms.

 Composite School Grant (Secondary):

• Composite school grant is given for school needs, teaching learning material, drinking water facility, electricity and for minor repairs in the school buildings.

In Service Training:

PG Teachers Training:

• 1684 PG Teachers were given 7 days training at an expense of Rs.6.736 lakhs in 2019-20.

 BT Teachers Training:

• 2653 BT Teachers were given 7 days training at an expense of Rs.15.910 lakhs in 2019-20.

School Leadership Development Programme (SLDP)

• 33 School Headmasters were given 5 days SLDP training at an expense of Rs.0.343 lakhs in 2019-20.  

MODEL SCHOOLS

 The Model School scheme aims to provide quality education to talented rural children through setting up of 12 model schools at the rate of one school per EBB block as benchmark of excellence. The scheme has the following objectives:

• To have at least one good quality senior secondary school in every block.
• To have a pace setting role
• To try out innovative curriculum and pedagogy
• To be a model in infrastructure, curriculum, evaluation and school governance

 MODEL SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION BUILDING DETAILS 

GIRLS HOSTEL

Introduction

This is a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme launched in 2008-09 and is being implemented from 2009-10 to set up a 100-bedded Girls’ Hostel in each of 3479 Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) in the country. The Scheme has replaced the earlier NGO driven Scheme for construction and running of Girls’ Hostels for Students

of Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools, under which assistance was provided to voluntary organizations for running Girls’ Hostels.

 Objective

The main objective of the Scheme is to retain the girl child in secondary school so that girl students are not denied the opportunity to continue their study due to distance to school, parents’ financial affordability and other connected societal factors. Another objective of the Scheme is to make Secondary and Senior Secondary education accessible to a larger number of girl students.

Target Group

The girl students in the age group of 14-18 yrs. studying in classes IX and XII belonging to SC, ST, OBC, Minority communities and BPL families will form the target group of the Scheme. Students passing out of KGBV will be given preference in admission in hostels. At least 50% of girls admitted will be from SC, ST, OBC and Minority communities.

Financial Norms

 GIRLS HOSTEL CONSTRUCTION BUILDING DETAILS

IEDSS (INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR DIFFERENTLY ABLE AT SECONDARY STAGE)

 VISION :

The Centrally Sponsored IEDSS Scheme aims to enable all students with disabilities completing eight years of elementary schooling an opportunity to complete four years of secondary schooling (classes IX to XII) in an inclusive and enabling environment.

To provide educational opportunities and facilities to students with disabilities in the general education system at the secondary level

To support the training of general school teachers to meet the needs of children with disabilities at the secondary level.

MISSION :

• Every child with disability will be identified at the secondary level and his educational need assessed
• Every student in need of aids and appliances, assistive devices will be provided the same.
• All architectural barriers in schools are removed so that students with disability have access to classrooms, laboratories, libraries and toilets in the school.
• Each student with disability will be supplied learning material as per her requirement .
• Students with disabilities will have access to support services like the appointment of special educators, establishment of resource rooms in every block
• Model schools are set up in every state to develop good replicable practice in inclusive education