About to:
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) aims at expanding and improving the standards of secondary education - classes IX and X. It also aims at taking secondary education to every corner of the district by ensuring a secondary school (up to class X) within a radius of 5 km for every neighborhood. Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) was launched in 2009 with the objective to enhance Access to Secondary Education and to improve its quality. The implementation of the Scheme started from 2009-2010. The other objectives include
Objective:
Improving Quality of Education imparted at Secondary Level through making all Secondary Schools conform to prescribed norms,
Removing Gender, Socio-economic and Disability barriers,
Providing Universal Access to Secondary Level Education by 2017, i.e., by the end of 12th Five Year Plan and achieving Universal Retention by 2020.
Background:
Since the initiation of the National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986, there has been no major changes in the structure and organization of the secondary and higher secondary school systems under the Ninth Plan period.
The focus in this plan was on minimising the various disparities, to renew the curricula giving importance to vocationalisation and employment-oriented courses. It also give importance to expanding and diversifying the open learning system, teacher training and ICT. Free education and hostel facilities for girls and integrated education for the disabled children was also brought into highlight, etc.
Major Head:
In school, there was promotion of the science laboratories, environmental education, promotion of yoga, as well as centrally sponsored schemes of population education project, international mathematics and science olympiads. The state governments provide in-service training for the teachers and provide infrastructure and research inputs.RMSA not only emphasizes on providing secondary education for the special focus groups that include scheduled tribe and scheduled caste groups, minority girls and CWSN children, but it also give importance on removing the existing disparities in socio-economic and gender background in the secondary level of education. They are termed as the vulnerable/ disadvantaged group. Certain strategies were implemented to provide free access towards secondary education.