REPORT NO. 294 PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT TWO HUNDRED NINETY FOURTH REPORT Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations contained in the Two Hundred and Eighty Third Report on the Subject ‘The Implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-Day-Meal Scheme’ (Presented to the Rajya Sabha on5 th January, 2018 ) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on5 th January, 2018 ) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi January, 2018/Pausa, 1939 (Saka) Website : http://rajyasabha.nic.in E-mail : [email protected] 30 Hindi version of this publication is also available PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA DEPARTMENT-RELATED PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT TWO HUNDRED NINETY FOURTH REPORT Action Taken by the Government on the Observations/ Recommendations contained in the Two Hundred Eighty Third Report on the Subject ‘The Implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-Day-Meal Scheme’ (Presented to the Rajya Sabha on 5th January, 2018) (Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 5th January, 2018) Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi January, 2018/Pausa, 1939 (Saka) CONTENTS PAGES 1. COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE ....................................................................................... (i)-(ii) 2. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... (iii) 3. ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................................ (iv) 4. REPORT ................................................................................................................................. 1-20 Chapter-I Observations/Recommendations which have been accepted by the Government ......................................................................................... 2 Chapter -II Observations/Recommendations which the Committee does not desire to pursue in view of the Government’s reply ................................ 3-9 Chapter-III Observations/Recommendations in respect of which replies of the Government have not been accepted by the Committee ..................... 10-19 Chapter-IV Observations/Recommendations in respect of which reply of the Government is still awaited ............................................................................. 20 5. OBSERVATIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS –– AT A GLANCE .......................................................... 21-23 6. MINUTES ............................................................................................................................... 25-28 COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE (Constituted w.e.f. 1st September, 2017) 1. Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya — Chairman RAJYA SABHA 2. Shri Partap Singh Bajwa 3. Shrimati Vandana Chavan 4. Prof. Jogen Chowdhury 5. Prof. M.V. Rajeev Gowda 6. Shri Anubhav Mohanty 7. Shri Vishambhar Prasad Nishad 8. Shrimati Sasikala Pushpa 9. Dr. Vinay P. Sahasrabuddhe 10. Shri Gopal Narayan Singh LOK SABHA 11. Shrimati Santosh Ahlawat 12. Shri Bijoy Chandra Barman 13. Shri Nihal Chand 14. Shrimati Bhawana Gawali (Patil) 15. Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste. 16. Shrimati Geetha Kothapalli 17. Prof. Chintamani Malviya 18. Shri Bhairon Prasad Mishra 19. Shri Ramachandran Mullappally 20. Shrimati Neelam Sonker 21. Shri Hari Om Pandey 22. Dr. Bhagirath Prasad 23. Shri N.K Premachandran 24. Shri K.N. Ramachandran 25. Shri M.I. Shanavas 26. Dr. Nepal Singh 27. Dr. Prabhas Kumar Singh 28. Shri Satyapal Singh 29. Shri Sumedhanand Saraswati 30. Shri P.R. Sundaram 31. Shrimati P.K Sreemathi Teacher (i) (ii) SECRETARIAT Shri K P. Singh, Joint Secretary Shri Rajiva Srivastava, Director Shri Vinay Shankar Singh, Additional Director Shri Arun Kumar, Deputy Secretary Shrimati Himanshi Arya, Under Secretary Shri K. Sudhir Kumar, Research Officer Shri Mohit Misra, Committee Officer INTRODUCTION I, the Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, having been authorised by the Committee to present the Report on its behalf, do hereby present this Two Hundred Ninety Fourth Report of the Committee on the Action Taken by Government on the observation/recommendations contained in the Two Hundred Eighty Third Report on Subject the Implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-Day-Meal Scheme. 2. Two Hundred Eighty Third Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development was presented to Rajya Sabha on 15th December, 2017 and simultaneously laid on the Table of Lok Sabha on 15th December, 2017. Replies of the Government to the Recommendations/ Observation contained in the Report were considered by the Committee at its meeting held on the 4th January, 2018. 3. The Committee considered the Draft Report and adopted the same in its meeting held on 4th January, 2018. DR. SATYANARAYAN JATIYA NEW DELHI; Chairman, 5 January, 2018 Department-related Parliamentary Standing Pausa 15, 1939 (Saka) Committee on Human Resource Development Rajya Sabha. (iii) ACRONYMS CAL : Computer aided Learning MDMS : Mid-Day-Meal Scheme NCF : National Curriculum Framework ODL : Open Distance Learning PBBB : Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat QPR : Quarterly Progress Report RAA : Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan SSA : Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan SMC : Steering-cum-Monitoring Committee SLSMC : State Level Steering-cum-Monitoring Committee (iv) REPORT The Report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations/observations contained in its Two Hundred eighty-third Report on the subject “The Implementation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-Day-Meal Scheme” pertaining to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy. The 283rd Report was presented to both the Houses of Parliament on 20th June, 2017. The Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of School Education and Literacy) vide its communication dated 29th June, 2017 furnished its Action Taken replies to the Committee. 2. Action Taken Notes received from the Government in respect of the recommendations contained in the 283rd Report have been categorized as follows: (i) Chapter-I: Recommendations/Observations which have been accepted by the Government Paras - 34.1 and 41 Total – 2 (ii) Chapter-II: Recommendations/Observations which the Committee does not desire to pursue in view of the Government’s reply – Paras - 28, 28.1, 29, 29.1, 34, 36, 36.1, 37, 37.1 and 46 Total – 10 (iii) Chapter-III: Recommendations/Observations in respect of which replies of the Government have not been accepted by the Committee Paras - 30, 30.1, 31, 31 (a & b), 32 (a & b), 32.1, (a&b), 33, 33.1, 35, 35.1, 38, 38.1,39, 39.1, 40, 40.1, 42,43, 44 and 45 Total – 19 (iv) Chapter-IV: Recommendation/Observation in respect of which reply of the Government is still awaited. Paras – Nil Total - Nil 1 CHAPTER-I RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED BY GOVERNMENT Recommendations/Observations 34.1 The Committee, therefore, recommends to initiate the pilot project of establishing the Smart Classes in Government schools, in fact, through which teaching–learning process would be effective using computer enabled techniques, wherein teaching by the use of multi-media projector is executed and Smart Boards are used, which have more visualization of lessons for students. A comprehensive viable target should be set for successful functioning of Smart-Classes in Govt. schools and a status note be provided to the Committee. Action Taken Under the Innovation Head, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) provides support for Computer aided Learning (CAL) facilities upto ` 50 lakhs per district per year. The focus of CAL is to maximize coverage in Upper Primary Schools with special emphasis on Science and Mathematics. During 2016-17, an amount of ` 31195.06 lakh has been allocated for CAL in 8226 government upper primary schools including ` 16493.63 lakh for Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA). Recommendations/Observations 41. The Committee further recommends that for intensification of MDMS, it should be incumbent on the nodal Ministry to review the infrastructure development meant for MDMS in the meetings of Steering-cum- Monitoring Committee (SMC) and representatives of other nodal Ministries which run the infrastructure development schemes of MDMS should be invited to these meetings. Action Taken The mid day meal scheme covered 10.03 Crore children studying in 11.50 lakh Government and Government aided schools, Special Training Centres and Madrasas & Maqtabs supported under SSA on daily basis during 2015-16. In order to monitor the scheme of such magnitude and vastness, the MDM guidelines provide for setting up of Steering-cum-Monitoring Committees at National, State and District Levels. The State Level Steering-cum-Monitoring Committee (SLSMC) headed by Chief Secretary of the State advises the State on the implementation of the Scheme and discusses issues requiring convergence with other Departments in the State. It has been made mandatory that the Annual Work Plan & Budget of the State should be approved by SLSMC. During 2015-16 37 meetings of the SLSMC were held in various States/UTs. During 2016-17, 8 meetings of SLSMC have been held. The representative of the MHRD is also invited in the SLSMC meetings. 2 CHAPTER-II RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS WHICH THE COMMITTEE DOES NOT DESIRE TO PURSUE IN VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT’S REPLY Recommendations/Observations