Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is a comprehensive and integrated flagship programme of Government of India to attain Universal Elementary Education (UEE), covering the entire country in a mission mode. SSA has been launched in 2001-2002 in partnership with the State Governments and Local Self Governments. The programme aims to provide useful and relevant, elementary education to all children in the 6 to 14 age group by 2010. It is an initiative to universalize and improve quality of education through decentralized and context specific planning and a process based, time bound implementation strategy. The programme lays emphasis on bridging all gender and social category gaps at elementary education level with time bound objectives. On one hand, …show more content…
• An expression of political will for universal elementary education across the country. • A partnership between the Central, State and local government
• An opportunity for States to develop their own vision of elementary education.
1.1.3. Aims and objectives of SSA: -
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan aims to provide useful and relevant elementary education for all children in the 6 to 14 age group by 2010. There is also another goal to bridge social, regional and gender gaps, with the active participation of the community in the management of schools. Following are the main objectives of SSA:
• All children in school, Education Guarantee Centre, Alternate School, 'Back-to-School' camp by 2003. • All children complete five years of primary schooling by 2007.
• All children complete eight years of elementary schooling by 2010.
• Focus on elementary education of satisfactory quality with emphasis on education for
This combined with the achievement related goals and social values become the basis of the schools mission statement.
“124 million children and adolescents are out of school, 63 million girls are out of school around the world, an estimated 90% of children with disabilities in the developing world do not go to school, 25% to 75% of children in the most deprived regions of poor countries cannot read a single word, and yet only 2% of humanitarian aid has been invested in education” (Bandwidth). Standing between these children and the classroom is a lack of funding for quality basic education to help them overcome the barriers to school such as tuition fees, disabilities, lack of sanitation, lack of access, and poorly qualified teachers. The United States and other countries must commit to providing education for all children. If we are to end extreme poverty, then every child, every future global citizen needs good education, because education is not only for the privileged few, it is a right of every child. The developed nations need to support the expansion of educational opportunities for boys and girls
Like any quality of life, there will always be effective issues that prevent people from reaching their goals in life, like education. As in Asia, farming is the main economic activity, but it requires lots of workers and nowaday children have to join their family’s work. Farming life is very ponderous and it partially affects the child’s education progress. Among Asia, many Southwest countries do not have the learning opportunity available for them, but mostly they were being held away from education by poverty, child labor, slavery, and worse family issues that basically banned them from reaching for a better future. Learning opportunity is not evenly distribute among Asia. While LDC countries like Bangladesh, India have found it difficult to build enough schools for serving their enormous population, developed countries like Korea and Japan gradually improve their literacy rate. In some religion, women do not have the right to receive education which lowered the value of women. In order to change this belief, the government offer schools for women and men separately like in Korea, Japan, China, and India. Even though education was well-performed in some Asians countries, but on a negative impact, parents used the opportunity to pressure on the
As social workers to help the poor people we must makes certain policies that will eradicate the division of human based on wealth, colour, gender and race. It is the responsibility of social workers to advocate for the needy on their behalf to bring them in to the mainstream of society. To make sure that the economic growth is reaching the poor, social workers must develop social policies which will overcome the barriers. To fight against poverty, it is the responsibility of the government to provide necessary education to the kids. Ones the kids are educated and they have the needed life skill that will bring drastic changes to margined groups. In rural area, we have social barriers which hinder children from attending school especially girls. The research students were very positive about their experience with the poor community. They were successful in giving basic training to villagers. As a social worker, I believe that in discriminated sectors we must provide maximum help to the people to become independent and enjoy a better
I believe the school endeavours to provide as much variety of opportunity as possible to allow each child to find something they are good at. The mission and aims show that the school recognises the diverse nature of its children and families, and their individual faiths, cultures and abilities and encourages its
Proud parents happily celebrating as their children are able to move onto a university level education, and continue into the job world well-equipped and ready to bring in a substantial income. Families escaping poverty after generations of impoverished relatives. If only life in Pakistan reflected this utopia. The reality is that thousands of tired, hungry children still struggle to get to school and receive a proper education. Families cannot send their kids, and the cycle of poverty proves inescapable. Until the government intervenes, there is no way for the country to pull itself out of an impoverished state and bring prosperity for future generations. With minimal federal intervention, Pakistan could swiftly increase the standard of living and level of education for its citizens. Every day, more and more young girls and boys could be trekking to newly constructed school buildings with a lunch in hand and the realization that they will learn substantial and relevant information with their newly appointed teacher. Literacy rates will spiral upwards, and the poverty strain will ease slightly. Although it will take time, this improved world can be achieved through the assistance of the federal government to already existing groups working to alleviate
The foundation makes sure each child receives an education through either the public-school system or one that is provide within the village. After school and on weekends, the children participate in extracurricular activities such as gymnastics and scouts. For children that are 13 years old and older, and are a part of the community, SOS provides additional education to teach them how to apply for jobs and other skills useful to their life after the village. Investing in the children’s future is the most important part of this
Children must all have education no matter what even if they are just simply poor and are not having the best quality of life, “The 77-page report, “‘They Say We’re Dirty’: Denying an Education to India’s Marginalized” (India 1). A difference in humankind is a common act of becoming an outsider, which is not ok, because everyone on earth that are human’s are humans, which brings up the fact that disrespecting another of one’s kind is simply cruelty. A difference in how one was born does not give an excuse to the people who are acting upon it because it is disrespect towards all human kinds and being excluded and isolated because of this one fact does not prove one’s quality. There are many people in the world who do not receive equal rights because of how they look and because “of their living conditions” (India 2). When a newborn is born, they are innocent and do not qualify to be part of anything that had earlier happened to their parents, which brings up the fact that their living conditions do not describe in words who they are and why they are living there. People living in bad-conditioned areas can be possibly living there because of their poor wealth or because they have many of their friends and families their, which has been proven and confirmed that excuses of these kinds will not be tolerated for marginalizing
Gender bias is a huge barrier that prevent girls from gaining knowledge at schools. That is the reason why illiteracy rate of female is increasing. In some countries, especially, in Asia, prior generations usually consider that girls don’t have to access with high education because their main responsibility is being wives. The generations argues that female’s task is housework, so they don’t need to get educational certificates in order to apply for a job. Because of the gender bias, girls have no chance to get knowledge from school and become illiterate
SSA has been operational since 2000-2001 to accommodate an assortment of intercessions for general access and maintenance, spanning of sexual orientation and social class gaps in elementary education and enhancing the nature of learning. SSA mediations incorporate inter alia, opening of new schools and substitute educating offices, development of schools and extra classrooms, toilets and drinking water, provisioning for teachers, standard educator in administration preparing and scholastic asset bolster, free course books and for and backing for enhancing learning accomplishment
According to an annual report done by the United Nation’s International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) there are approximately 65 million girls around the world being denied their right and civil liberty to education (Tomiuc, 2003). There are many third world countries across the globe that are consumed by poverty and epidemics and a lot of those problems reside in lack of self-knowledge and education. The annual State of the World’s Children report states
Just like many children not getting enough food around the world, there are too many children around the world in need of an education. There are many success stories of which education has played a role in a child’s life, such as the girls of Room to Read’s education program for rural, underprivileged children and the results of Malala Yousafzai’s stand for education against the Taliban. Many children need the education to become more “job appropriate” (having the skills and knowledge necessary for getting a job); many are preoccupied with other things such as fear and inferior jobs. Not only that but education, especially investing in it, has a socioeconomic benefits loop. Investing in education for children in underprivileged areas is important
The future of India lies in the future of Indian children across income group, geographical locations, gender and communities. As per 2001, India has around 157.86 million children, constituting 15.42% of Indian population, who are below the age of 6 years. Of these 157.86 million children, 75.95 million children are boys. The sex ratio among children [0-6 years) as per Census is 927 girls per 1000 males. A significant proportion of these children live in economic and social environment which impedes the child’s physical and mental development. These conditions include poverty, poor environmental sanitation, disease, infection, inadequate access to primary health care, inappropriate child caring and feeding practices etc. The Integrated Child Development Services, which currently covers 8.63 crore children, pregnant and lactating mothers, is the world’s largest programme for early childhood development and care. It was initiated by the Government of India on 2nd October 1975 by the Ministry of Social Welfare to provide an integrated package of services in a convergent manner for the holistic development of the child. It is an inter-sectoral programme which seeks to directly reach out to children,
Ramkumari is a little schoolgirl who attends The Class 3 (third grade) whose aspirations were to become a schoolteacher when she grows up. She was accountable for preparing the lunch meal for her family as all of them except Ramkumari went to the fields early in the morning, so they would expect the food to be cooked by the time they return. Ramkumari did not mind making food for the family because she didn’t want them to stop sending her to school since she wanted to be a schoolteacher. The emphasis of this article is the aspiration, social mobility and education of little girls from Class 1 to Class 5 in the small
Ankur Yuva Chetana Shivir is voluntary organization. It was established in 8th August 1986 under society registration act 1860.The NGO started with this primary mission as a grass root level NGO; they realized that people themselves are the best judge of what they need. The main aim of the NGO is to convert individual dreams into a collective consciousness through community convergence and participatory approach with the tools of self as well as social awareness; we endeavour to help the community understand how to convert its latent dreams into reality.