Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) SSA -
It is aimed at the universalisation of elementary education as mandated by the 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India which made free and compulsory education to children between the ages of 6 to 14 as a fundamental right.
Initiatives and Sub-Programmes under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
Shagun Portal - It has two components i.e Repository of best practices to learn from success stories & Online Monitoring of the SSA implemented by States and UTs
Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat - To improve the reading and writing skills of children in classes I and II, along with their mathematics skills.
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) - It aims to motivate and engage children of the age group of 6-18 years, in Science, Mathematics and Technology by Institutions of Higher Education like IIT's, IISER's and NIT's.
Vidyanjali - To enhance community and private sector involvement in Government run elementary schools across the country.
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
It is a centrally sponsored scheme with the objective to enhance access to secondary education.
Initiatives under RMSA
1. Shaala Siddhi - It is a web portal developed by the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) to enable schools to evaluate their performance in 7 key domains under the prescribed framework.
2. Shaala Darpan - It is an e-Governance platform that covers all the KendriyaVidyalayas, to improve quality of learning, efficiency of school administration, governance of schools & service delivery.
3. e-PATHSHALA - It is a joint initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to disseminate all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video and non-print materials.
4. Kala utsav - To promote Arts (Music, Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts and Crafts) in education in secondary stage of the education to bring art in an inclusive environment.
5. SeemaDarshan -It is an intiative by HRD in collaboration with Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Home Affairs for the students of KendriyaVidyalayas and NavodayaVidyalayas to provide an opportunity for the children to experience the border environment and to foster patriotism among the students.
Shaala Sarathi
It is a portal launched by the Ministry of HRD.
It is a State-NGO-CSR Portal to aid the collaboration among the stakeholders in sharing innovative practices in various schools.
Shaala Siddhi is a comprehensive school evaluation system focused on well-defined quality based parameters that facilitates Schools to make professional judgments for improvement.
All School Monitoring Individual Tracing Analysis (ASMITA)
It is launched under ShalaAsmitaYojana (SAY).
SAY aims to track the educational journey of school students from Class I to Class XII across the 15 lakhs private and government schools in the country.
ASMITA will be an online database which will carry information of student attendance and enrolment, learning outcomes, mid-day meal service and infrastructural facilities among others. Students will be tracked through their Aadhaar numbers and incase those not having unique number will be provided
Tithi bhojan
It is a community participatory model followed by the Gujarat government in the mid-day meal programme.Food is voluntarily served among school children by Villagers.
Swachh Vidyalaya Initiative
It is a collaborative effort of Central Government, State and UT in partnership with PSU's and Private Corporate to provide funding to built functional toilets in every school.
Awards under this initative
1. SwachhVidyalayaPuraskar - To Government schools for showing excellence in Sanitation and hygiene practice.
2. SwachhtamVidyalaya and HaritVidyalaya - TokendriyaVidyalayas at regional level which shows excellence in clean and green environment.
Global Initiative Of Academic Networks (GIAN)
It is an initiative aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientist and entrepreneurs internationally by collaborating Indian institutes of Higher Education in India with Foreign academics.
It is to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform and elevate the scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.
Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)
It is a centrally sponsored scheme aiming to provide strategic funding to higher educational institutions and improve the overall quality of existing state institutions by ensuring that all institutions conform to prescribed norms and standard.
Its target achievement is to raise the gross enrolment ratio to 32% by the end of 2017.
BHUVAN - RUSA PORTAL - The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of ISRO has developed a mobile application for uploading geo-tagged photographs and associated details captured by the educational institutions in this portal as part of the implementation of RUSA.
SWAYAM
Study Webs of Active Learning For Young Aspiring Minds is an indigenous IT platform for hosting the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
It targets those students who could not complete their studies and professionals who wish to upgrade their knowledge.
Professors of centrally funded institutions like IITs, IIMs, central universities will offer online courses to citizens of India through this platform.
However, it would not run courses such as engineering, medicine, dental, pharmacy, nursing, architecture, and physiotherapy.
Swayam Prabha
The Swayam Prabha is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite.
The channels cover higher education, school education and assist the students (class 11th & 12th) prepare for competitive exams.
The contents are provided by IITs, UGC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS.
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), an autonomous Inter-University Centre (IUC) of UGC maintains the web portal.
INFLIBNET is involved in creating infrastructure for sharing of library and information resources and services among Academic and Research Institutions.
It allows students to choose the time of their convenience for learning.
It widens the scope of SWAYAM, an online education platform which covers teachers training, graduate and post graduate courses.
Under Swayam Prabha, the government had one DTH channel in English and Hindi of the 32 channels for telecasting educational programmes dedicated to teacher training.
Vittiya Saksharata Abhiyan (VISAKA)
It is a financial literacy campaign.
It is to actively engage the students of Higher Education Institutions to encourage them to use a digitally enabled cashless economic system for transfer of funds.
Ministry of HRD also aims to make financial transactions completely digital in all higher education institutions.
Ishan Uday and Ishan Vikas
Scholarships for undergraduates from northeast.
Under the scheme ten thousand fresh scholarships are to be provided for general degree course, technical and professional courses including medical and para-medical courses and will be given through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to the beneficiary student
IshanVikas - Select students from northeast to be taken to IITs, NITs etc. for internships/ exposure
Unnat Bharat
It aimed at providing rural India with professional resource support from institutes of higher education
Connecting institutions of higher education, including IITs, NITs and Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) etc. with local communities to address the development challenges through appropriate technologies.
Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat
It was announced on the occasion of the 140th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
It aims to actively enhance interaction between people of diverse cultures living in different States and UTs, with the objective of promoting greater mutual understanding amongst them.
As per the programme, each year, every State/UT would be paired with another State/UT in India for reciprocal interaction between the people.
Through this innovative measure, the knowledge of the culture, traditions and practices of different States & UTs will lead to an enhanced understanding and bonding between the States, thereby strengthening the unity and integrity of India.
Bharat Shrestha Bharat
It was announced on the occasion of the 140th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
It aims to actively enhance interaction between people of diverse cultures living in different States and UTs, with the objective of promoting greater mutual understanding amongst them.
As per the programme, each year, every State/UT would be paired with another State/UT in India for reciprocal interaction between the people.
Through this innovative measure, the knowledge of the culture, traditions and practices of different States & UTs will lead to an enhanced understanding and bonding between the States, thereby strengthening the unity and integrity of India.
Rashtriya Ekta Shivir
Rashtriya Ekta Shivir (National Integration Camp) was organized recently as part of Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS).
The most unique feature of this camp is that the students from one state of the country represent the cultural diversity of another state of the country.
It represents the socio-economic aspects along with the art and culture of various states.
Shodhganga
It is the repository developed to contain an electronic copy of all M.Phil/Ph.D thesis to make it accessible to all institutions.
The task of setting-up of this repository is assigned to Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), an inter-university centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
It also provides access to Indian theses and dissertations in open access to world-wide academic community and making visibility of Indian research to other countries.
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)
TKDL is an Indian initiative to prevent exploitation and to protect Indian traditional knowledge from wrongful patents mainly at International Patent Offices.
TKDL contains Indian traditional medicine knowledge in a digitized format and is available in five international languages (English, French, zGerman, Spanish and Japanese
Indian traditional medicine knowledge in TKDL pertains to traditional books related to Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha.
CSIR is the implementing agency for TKDL. Funds under the scheme are provided only to CSIR and no funds have been allocated to any state.
Vishwajeet Scheme
Vishwajeet scheme aimed to help top IITs to get top league in global rankings.
It had the provision of funding to top seven IITs over a period of five years to upgrade infrastructure, hire foreign faculty and collaborate with foreign institutions.
Recently, the scheme was scrapped by Union Finance Minsitry.
However, Union HRD ministry has introduced ―Higher Education Finance Agency (HEFA)‖ to provide support to universities for creating the research infrastructure.
Operation Digital board
The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), an advisory body under Ministry of HRD recently passed a resolution to take steps towards Operation Digital Board.
The idea of Operation Digital Board is aimed at providing better digital education in all schools.
These steps will be on the lines of Operation Blackboard of 1987, which was started with the purpose of providing minimum basic facilities to all primary schools.
This will offer new opportunities and ways of teaching and learning in schools.
Initiatives to push e-education
National Digital Library – It is an e-library containing 6.5 million books.
National Academic Depository – It is for authenticating all certificates issued by academic institutions.
These initiatives are expected to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio in the higher education from 24 (201516) to 30 by 2020.
Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP)
TEQIP is a central sector scheme commenced in 2003 with World Bank assistance to improve the infrastructure and educational standards in the technical institutions.
It is a long term programme being implemented in 3 phase. Currently it is in third phase of implementation stage.
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