Samagra Shiksha - An Integrated Scheme for School Education

It was announced in Budget 2018-19 as an Integrated Scheme for School Education- aimed at ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education from pre-school to senior secondary classes.

Major Objectives of the Scheme: Provision of quality education and enhancing learning outcomes of students;

• Bridging social and gender gaps in school education;
• Ensuring equity and inclusion at all levels of school education;
• Ensuring minimum standards in schooling provisions;
• Promoting vocationalisation of education;
• Support States in implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009; and
• Strengthening and up-gradation of SCERTs/State Institutes of Education and DIETs as nodal agencies for teacher training.

Note: It subsumes Sarva Shiksha ....