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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for
All Movement) is a programme by the
Government of India aimed at the
universalization of elementary education
"in a time bound manner", as mandated
by the 86th amendment to the
Constitution of India making free
education to children aged 6–14
(estimated to be 205 million in number in
2001) a fundamental right . The
programme was pioneered by Atal Bihari
Vajpayee. SSA is being implemented in
partnership with State Governments to
cover the entire country and address the
needs of 192 million children in 1.1
million habitations. In FY 2009-10,60% of
SSA funds came from GOI. This has now
been revised to 65%.
The programme is looking to open new
schools in those habitations without
schooling facilities and to strengthen
existing school infrastructure through
provision of additional class rooms,
toilets, drinking water, maintenance grant
and school improvement grants. SSA is
now the primary vehicle for
implementing the Right to Free and
Compulsory Education Act (RTE).
Existing schools with inadequate teacher
strength are provided with additional
teachers, and the capacity of existing
teachers is being strengthened by
extensive training, grants for developing
teaching-learning materials and
strengthening of the academic support
structure at a cluster, block and district
level. SSA seeks to provide quality
elementary education including life skills.
SSA has a special focus on female
education and children with special
needs. SSA also seeks to provide
computer education to bridge the digital
divide.
Its goals of 2011 were to do the
following:
Open new schools in areas without
them and to expand existing school
infrastructures and maintenance.
Address inadequate teacher numbers
and provide training a development for
existing teachers.
Provide quality elementary education
including life skills with a special focus
on the education of girls and of children
with special needs, as well as computer
education. [1]
Budgetary Allocation and
Expenditure
During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan the
Government of India's budget for SSA
(including Kasturba Gandhi Balika
Vidyalaya (KGBV) and National
Programme for Education of Girls at the
Elementary Level) increased nearly 3-fold
from Rs 21,360 crores in FY 2007-08 to
Rs 61,734 crores in FY 2011-12. pk
Expenditures have failed to keep pace. In
FY 2007-08, over 70 percent of
allocations were spent. This dropped to
61 percent in FY 2011-12.
While overall spending as a proportion of
allocations has decreased, there has been
an improvement in the timing of this
spending. In FY 2007-08, 70 percent of
the total funds were spent in the last two
quarters of the year. In FY 2011-12,
expenditure was incurred more evenly
with 44 percent spent in the first two
quarters and 56 percent in the last two
quarters. [2]
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