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sarba Siksha Abhijan.
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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the latest initiative by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA Government to provide 8 years of quality education to all children in the age group of 6-14 years. The programme seeks to bridge gender and social gaps with active participation of the community. It also aims at mobilising resources—human, financial and institutional—necessary for achieving the goal of Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE). The highlights of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan are : (i) to cover all districts in the country during the year 2002; (ii) to bring all children to schools, Education Guarantee Centres, Alternative Schools or Back-to-School camps by the year 2003; (iii) to see that all children complete five years of education by the year 2007; and (iv) to see that all children complete eight years of quality elementary education and achieve universal retention by the year 2010.
Definitely, the objectives are laudable. But the real question is Will the Department of Elementary Education and Literacy (uncle; the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource Development) that has launched this ambitious programme be able to fulfil these objectives ? Moreover, how is this programme different from the ones launched earlier to ensure universal elementary education, Which has now been recognised as a Fundamental Right by the Constitution ?
The earlier literacy missions, launched with much fanfare, were exciting initially. People had started sending their children to school; women had looked upon literacy classes as a means of emancipation from age-old bondage; they had enjoyed sitting together every evening, learning, talking and interacting with one another. Yet there was a U-turn when it came to any follow-up action or reinforcing the learning process. The National Literacy Mission (NLM) had committed itself to following up these literacy programmes with a post-literacy programme, leading to the setting up of continuing education centres in villages. Funds were sanctioned by the Central Government, but were not released for another two years. This led to lapse into the old non-literate days. Women and children could not sustain their fragile literacy skills. Even the much-touted 100 per cent literacy districts in Kerala and West Bengal could not keep up with the momentum of the literacy missions launched by the Government as well as several Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). But delays in the release of funds, long gaps between different phases, overnight decisions to shut down programmes and con-fused priorities between the Centre and the states crippled the momentum that was generated. The tragedy is further compounded by the fact that while the government is under utilising its funds, the programmes on the ground already are languishing for want of resources.
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