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Parliament of India Rajya Sabha Parliament PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi December, 2016/Agrahayana, 1938 (Saka) Hindi version of this publication is also available PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY THIRD REPORT The Implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan And Mid-Day-Meal Scheme (Presented to the Rajya Sabha on 15th December, 2016) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 15th December, 2016) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi December, 2016/ Agrahayana, 1938 (Saka) C O N T E N T S PAGES 1. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE …........................................................... (i) 2. PREFACE…………………………………………………………………………. (ii) 3. LIST OF ACRONYMS ……….......…............................................................ (iii)-(iv) 4. REPORT.........................................................................................…... ......................... 4. *OBSERVATIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE - AT A GLANCE ... 5. *MINUTES .............................................................................................. 6. *ANNEXURES.................................................................................................. ______________________________ *Appended on printing stage COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (Constituted w.e.f. 1st September, 2016) 1. Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya ¾ Chairman RAJYA SABHA 2. Prof. Jogen Chowdhury 3. Prof. M.V. Rajeev Gowda 4. Shri Anubhav Mohanty 5. Shri Pratap Singh Bajwa 6. Shri Vishambhar Prasad Nishad 7. Shri Basawaraj Patil 8. Shri Sharad Pawar 9. Shrimati Sasikala Pushpa 10. Dr. Vinay P. Sahasrabuddhe LOK SABHA 11. Shrimati Santosh Ahlawat 12. Shri Bijoy Chandra Barman 13. Shri Nihal Chand 14. Shrimati Bhawana Gawali Patil 15. Shrimati Kothapalli Geetha 16. Shri Anant Kumar Hegde 17. Prof. Chintamani Malviya 18. Shri Bhairon Prasad Mishra 19. Shri Chand Nath 20. Shri Hari Om Pandey 21. Dr. Bhagirath Prasad 22. Shri N.K. Premachandran 23. Shri K.N. Ramachandran 24. Shri Mullappaly Ramachandran 25. Shri Sumedhanand Saraswati 26. Shri M.I. Shanavas 27. Dr. Nepal Singh 28. Dr. Prabhas Kumar Singh 29. Shrimati Neelam Sonkar 30. Shri P.R. Sundaram 31. Shrimati P.K. Sreemathi Teacher SECRETARIAT Shri K.P Singh, Joint Secretary Shri Mahesh Tiwari, Director Shri Vinay Shankar Singh, Joint Director Shri R.K Mecolt Singh, Assistant Director Shri K. Sudhir Kumar, Research Officer (i) P R E F A C E I, the Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, having been authorized by the Committee, present this Two Hundred and Eighty-third Report of the Committee on the subject ‘The Implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-Day-Meal Scheme '. 2. The Committee visited Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Thiruvananthapuram and Udaipur and held a number of meetings with the authorities of State Governments of West-Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Union Territory of Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Kerala and Rajasthan along with various organizations, institutions and stakeholders to consider the implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Mid-Day-Meal Scheme (MDMS). 3. The Committee considered the Draft Report on the subject and adopted the same in its meeting held on the 9th December, 2016. 4. For facility of the reference, observations and recommendations of the Committee, have been printed in bold letters at end of Report. NEW DELHI DR. SATYANARAYAN JATIYA November 9, 2016 Chairman Agrahayana, 18, 1938 (Saka) Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (ii) ACRONYMS BRC - Block Resource Centre CRC - Cluster Resource Centres CWSN - Children with Special Needs DPEP - District Primary Education Programme DBT - Direct Benefit Transfer DI - Distt. Inspector DPEP - District Primary Education Programme DIET - District Institute of Education and Training EBB - Educationally Backward Blocks GH - Girls Hostel IEDSS - Inclusive Education for Disabled at Secondary Stage ICT - Information and Communication technologies at School JRM - Joint Review Mission KSQAO - Karnataka School Quality Assessment Organization KSQAAC - Karnataka School Quality Assessment and Accreditation Council LEP - Learning Enhancement Programme LSG - Local Self Government MDMS - Mid- Day-Meal Scheme MIC, SED - Minister-in-charge, Department of School Education NVS - Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (iii) NMEICT - National Mission on Education through Information & Communication Technology NP-NSPE - National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education NUEPA - National University of Educational Planning and Administration NER - Net Enrolment Ratio NCERT - National Council of Educational Research and Training NIOS - National Institute of Open Schooling OER - Open Educational Resources PTR - Pupil Teacher Ratio PRIS - Panchayati Raj Institutions PAB - Programme Approval Board RTE - Right to Education to Free and Compulsory Education RMSA - Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan STC - Special Training Centre SCERT - State Council of Education Research and Training SCR - Student Classroom Ratio STF - Subject Teacher Forum SIEMAT - State Institute of Educational Management and Training SARAL - Systemiser Administration Reform for Achieving Learning of Student SMC - School Management Committees SSA - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan TLM - Teaching Learning Material VE - Vocational Education (vi) REPORT Education is vital requirement for nation building. It is the education, which provides the requisite knowledge and skills for the sustained growth of the economy and in return ensures the overall progress. In nut shell, education renders critical input for human resource development. India’s education is presently in the concurrent list and the objective is to promote meaningful educational partnership between the Central and State Governments. The scenario is that the Central Government makes the national policies and States have to follow it. India’s education system is mainly comprised of elementary education, secondary education, undergraduate level and post-graduate level, respectively. The post-independence era, exhibited a system of education which was characterized by a large scale inter and intra-regional imbalances. A number of steps have been taken since then, to bridge this gap, and appreciable achievements have been witnessed so far. An Overview 2. As of the present, the following statistics regarding the school education provided to the Committee by the Ministry of HRD during the examination of Demands for Grants 2016-17 of the Ministry, gives a very encouraging sign of the achievements:- Table 1: Universal Access to Elementary Education 1998-99 2014-15 Gross Access Ratio (Primary) 83% 99% Gross Access Ratio (Upper Primary) 76% 98% Gross Enrolment ratio (Primary) 92% 100.08% Gross Enrolment ratio (Upper Primary) 58% 91.24% Dropout Rate (Primary) 40% 16.83% Dropout Rate (Elementary) 57% 32.62% Out of School Children 134.6 lakh (2005) 60.64 lakh (2014) 2.1 The Department further added that there has been increased enrolment share of girls/SC/ST/Muslims in school education. The Gender Parity Index which was 0.94 in 2009-10, increased to 1.02 in 2013-14 at primary level and for upper primary level it increased from 0.93 to 1.06. The share of different categories is depicted in Table given below :- Table 2: Share of Girls, SC, ST and Muslims in total Enrolment Primary Upper Primary Social group 2009-10 2014-15 2009-10 2014-15 Girls 48.46% 48.19% 48.12% 48.63% SC 20.07% 19.93% 19.17% 19.55% ST 11.54% 10.83% 9.4% 9.76% Muslims 13.48% 14.37%` 11.89% 12.60% Source : DISE However, these also highlight the long distance that the nation has to travel to realize the goal for universal, equitable and excellence in the educational standards for students. With a view to enhance the reach of elementary education, the Government launched a mission mode programme in the name of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan SSA since 2000-2001. This programme not only emphasizes on universal access and retention of students in the school but also bridges the gap of gender and social categories and finally improves the quality of learning. I Sarvashiksha Abhiyan (SSA) 3. As regards the budget allocation to SSA, the Department further informed the Committee that Central Government has accorded high priority to Education Sector. Expenditure on Education in 2011-12, 2012-13 (Revised Estimate) and 2013-14 (Budget Estimate), as percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been 3.98%, 4.35% and 4.44% respectively. During Twelfth five Year Plan, the Plan Outlay was for Rs. 3,43,028 crore for the Department of School Education and Literacy as compared to actual expenditure of Rs.1,37,902.94 crore in Eleventh Five Year Plan. 3.1 Insofar as SSA scheme is concerned budgetary position is mentioned as under: Table 3: PAB Approvals Actual AE as a Sl. Revised Expenditure Year (Central Share) Expenditure % of No. (RE) (Rs. crore) (Rs. crore) (AE) (Rs. crore) RE 1 2012-2013 45418.94 23875.83 23858.01 99.93 2 2013-2014 31016.34 26608.01 24820.93 93.28 3 2014-2015 36391.45 24380.00 24122.51 98.94 4 2015-2016 40200.43 22015.42 21666.52 98.42 5 2016-2017 46701.62 22500.00(BE)# 17786.26* 79.05 *as on 30.09.2016 # against demand of Rs. 55,000 crore. Additional allocation of Rs. 21957 crore has been demanded at RE stage for year 2016-17. The BE of Rs. 55,000 crore for year 2017-18 for SSA has been proposed. 3.2 The funds as provided by M/o
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