Question

Enlist the various program related to SSA. How these programs can help in harmonization of Right to Education Act, 2009 and SSA

Answer 1

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, also known as the Education for All Movement or SSA is an Indian Government programme aimed at making elementary education available to all the children "in a time-bound manner".

The program was mandated by the 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India making free and compulsory education as a fundamental right to the children between the ages of 6 to 14.

With the passage of the RTE Act, changes have been incorporated into the SSA approach, strategies and norms. The changes encompass the vision and approach to elementary education with a Holistic view of education, implications for a systemic revamp of the entire content and process of education with significant implications for curriculum, teacher education, educational planning, and management, and equal opportunity to the disadvantaged sections of the society.

The programmes cover the whole gamut of the elementary education sector and are flexible enough to incorporate new intervention like the specific intervention for girls e.g. NPEGEL, Kasturba Gandhi Programme.