Overview
RMSA is a major scheme launched in March, 2009 with the
vision of making secondary education of good quality available, accessible and
affordable to al young persons in the age group 15-16 years.
The objective of the scheme is to enhance access and improve
quality of education at secondary stage, while ensuring equity. The scheme
envisages enhancing the enrollment for classes IX-X by providing a secondary
school within a reasonable distance of every habitation, improving quality of
education imparted at secondary level through making all secondary schools
conform to prescribed norms, removal of gender, socio-economic and disability
barriers, universal access to secondary level education by 2017, and universal
retention by 2020.
The Centrally Sponsored Schemes viz ICT at schools, Girls’
Hostel, Inclusive Education for Disabled at Secondary Stage and Vocational
Education were subsumed from 2013-14 under the RMSA. The subsuming of these
schemes under the RMSA, would lead to significant financial savings and
administrative rationalization of the provisions under the schemes which, on
the one hand would add to the fund availability under RMSA and on the other
hand, since interventions under these schemes extend to aided schools as also
cover the segment of higher secondary, their subsuming under RMSA will in
effect provide for convergence based implementation of RMSA with the inclusion
of aided schools and higher secondary segment. These are now integrated
component of RMSA
Though the benefits to aided schools as of now will be limited
to the current interventions under the other schemes and to the exclusion of
the core components of the existing RMSA provisions, at the State level the
convergence would lead to integrated and inclusive (aided schools and higher
secondary classes) planning and implementation.
For more details, click here: www.rmsaindia.org
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