Census 2011: Literacy ranking
Best Performers
Total Literacy | Female Literacy |
- Kerala (93%)
- Lakshadweep (UT)
- Mizoram
- Tripura
- Goa
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- Kerala
- Mizoram
- Lakshadweep (UT)
- Tripura
- Goa
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Bottom 5 States/UT in literacy
Worst performers
Total Literacy | Female Literacy |
- Bihar (Lowest)
- Arunanchal
- Rajasthan
- Jharkhand
- Andhra
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- Rajasthan
- Bihar
- Jharkhand
- J & K
- UP
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- Now let’s begin with educational schemes
- Old schemes, organizations covered here: wp.me/p2tsJl-1zM (cost: benefit not that great).
- In this new article, I’m covering schemes mentioned in Economic survey 2013 or Budget 2014.
Mid-Day Meal (MDM)
WHO? | Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) |
Official name | National Programme for Nutritional Support to Primary Education |
WHAT? |
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WHERE? |
- Class 1 to 8
- Government schools, Government aided schools, Madresa, Maqtab etc.
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Accountability tools used:
- Social audit
- Interactive voice response system (IVRS) – automated calls from state HQ to headmasters. They’ve to provide performance data on daily basis, which is automatically tabulated in computer system.
Economic Survey reforms:
- Poor quality food affecting child health.
- Provide Separate dining rooms to prevent rains and dust.
- Teachers should only supervise. At present, they’ve to even cook the food due to staff shortage, as a result, education activity suffers.
Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyan (SSA)
WHO? | Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) |
WHAT? |
- Right to education is implemented via SSA.
- provides funding for infrastructure (building), services (teachers), free textbook, bags, uniforms, transport, hostel etc.
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Budget 2014 | Gave ~28,000 crores. |
Economic Survey reforms:
- Right to Education (RTE) Act mandates a school within 1 km radius of every habitation. but this has led to mushrooming of schools at certain places. Better construct one single bigger school at nearby places, with facility from class 1 to 12.
- Regularize temporary teachers. Assess their performance on learning outcome of students.
- Fix the shortage of toilets, safe drinking water and safai karmachari.
RMSA & RUSA
HRD ministry implements both these schemes
RMSA | RUSA |
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan | Rashtriya Uchhtar Shiksha Abhiyan |
Targets
- 2017: achieve above 90% gross enrollment ratio
- 2020: universal retention i.e. all primary school children should reach high school.
- Earlier schemes for girls’ hostels, vocational education etc. merged into this schemes.
- Budget 2014: gave ~5000 cr.
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- Setup 80 new universities by merging existing autonomous colleges.
- Create support infrastructure for existing universities
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- Indian Bank Association (IBA): provides cheaper loans to all economically weaker section (EWS) students
- World Bank: provides funding for technical education quality improvement.
Model School scheme (MSS)
WHO? | Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) |
WHAT? |
- Total 6000 new secondary schools, to absorb the primary school passout kids.
- 3500 model schools in educationally backward blocks (EBB), with help of state governments.
- 2500 models schools in normal blocks, via PPP funding.
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Saakshar Bharat (SB)
WHO? | Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), 2001 |
What? |
- Adult education program, main focus on women.
- Aim: 80% total literacy by 2012; 100% female literacy by 2014.
- won UNESO King Sejong Literacy Prize 2013
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How |
- Funding given to districts having less than 50% adult literacy
- Provides ‘3’ R’s (i.e. Reading, Writing & Arithmetic) with skill Development program.
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Education: Budget 2014 New schemes
Jaitley did not elaborate the features of these schemes. Hence nothing much to write at the moment.
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya | New Teachers Training Programme. (500 cr) |
Jai Prakash Narayan | National Centre for Excellence in Humanities in Madhya Pradesh. |
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- virtual classrooms and online courses (100 cr)
- Via Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK)
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New IITs and IIMS under budget 2014
Following Locations not important except for interview-profile based Questions
5 new IIT | 5 new IIM |
- Jammu
- Chhattisgarh
- Goa
- Andhra Pradesh
- Kerala
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- Himachal Pradesh
- Punjab
- Bihar
- Odisha
- Maharashtra
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