SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN - AN INDIAN GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME

SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN

-AN INDIAN GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME

PIONEERED BY

FORMER INDIAN PRIME MINISTER

ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has been operational since 2000-2001 to provide for a variety of social category gap in elementary education and improving the quality of learning. It includes opening of new schools and alternate schooling facilities, construction of schools and additional classrooms, toilets and drinking water, provisioning for teachers, regular teacher in service training and academic resource support, free textbooks and uniforms and support for improving learning achievement levels.

It focus on elementary education of satisfaction and provides clear vision on importance of education. Education is very important tool for everyone to succeed in life and get something different. It helps a lot in lessening the challenges of life. Knowledge gained throughout the education period enables each and every individual confident about their life. It opens various doors to the opportunities of achieving better prospects in life so promotes career growth.

Many awareness programmes has been run by the government in enhance the value of education in rural areas. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is one of them. It brings feeling of equality among all people in the society and promotes growth and development of the country.

SSA has made a concerned effort to promote the inclusion of children with special needs, the system faces challenges in identifying these children and responding to their needs.

It is umbrella programme for all education schemes, which aims to universalize elementary education, the goal are that all children aged 06-14 including the enrolment of children with disabilities.

Lack of education can have serious effects on children and adults and can affects health, living conditions and social situations. Many issues arise in a community due to a lack of education. Situation like teen pregnancy, gang violence, theft, drug use and other crimes happen more frequently in noneducated settings. This is also partly due to the fact that these areas are poverty stricken because a lack of education decreases the jobs that people can get. Just having basic skills such as reading and math can help a person with employment.

Seeing an recent event happened in our college land near boys hostel. A person which is uneducated, failed to predict that if he makes a fire in grazing land than fire spread all over the land. And a heavy cost he has to pay if it is not control in time. Such type of lack of education leads to dangerous to him (person) as well as the surrounding people. Many more tragic events are happened in our surrounding.

We discus one more tragic event happened in Alirajpur(MP) last year.

An illetrate mother puts fevi-quick into her children’s eye instead of eye drop recommend by doctor. She has three childrens. She has to pay huge amount by weakening of eye sight of all the childrens. This all are happening in india due to uneducation / illiteracy.

Basic aim of SSA – useful and relevant education signifies a quest for an education system that is not alienating and that draws on community solidarity. Its aim is to children learn about and master their natural environment in a manner that allows the fullest harnessing of their human potential both spiritually and materially. This quest must also be a process of value based learning that allows children an opportunity to work for each other’s well being rather than to permit mere selfish persuit.

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan realizes the importance of early childhood Care and education and looks at the 0-14 age as a continuum. The biggest challenge thus far has been to set up enough infrastructures across the country. Being a pan India activity of its own kind, the problems have been numerous. But ultimately things appear to improve and settle down year by year. In order to progress, there are very useful measures: One is the education development index (EDI) provides useful insight into how things have been progressing in different states.

The government’s flagship program Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has done this miracle. In 10 years, SSA has achieved following:

Out of School children number has been brought down significantly (8 million in 2009, 3 million in 2012).

Big boost to additional schools -195,000 Primary and more than 100,000 Upper Primary schools sanctioned.
2 million additional teacher posts.
1.8 million additional classrooms approved. 230,000 drinking water projects approved.
Girls’ admission improved dramatically. Gender parity is achieved.
The scheme supports 200 million children in 1.4 million schools in the country.

Website: https://www.sarkariyojna.co.in