EFFORTS BY--- SUHANI JAIN

WHAT IS SSA
AIMS OF SSA
1. To provide useful and elementary education
for all children in the 6-14 age group by
2010.

2. To bridge social, regional and gender gaps

with the active participation of community in
the management of schools.
3. To allow children to learn about and
master their natural environment in order
to develop their potential both spiritually
and materially.

4. To inculcate value-based learning this

allows children an opportunity to work for
each other’s well being rather than to
permit mere selfish pursuits.
 COMPONENTS OF SSA
1-Educational Guarantee Scheme-Under EGS, the Government gives a
guarantee to provide a primary schooling facility to the children in a
habitation where there is no such facility within a kilometer within a
period of 90 days of receiving a demand for such a facility by the
local community.
2-Operation Blackboard-This scheme (Operation
Blackboard) was launched in 1987 to improve facilities in
schools by providing more teachers, rooms and teaching
learning equipments.
3-District Primary Education Programme-This scheme
started in 1994 and it was linked to SSA in 2009.This
scheme is running in educationally backward district .

4-Mid day meal -This scheme started on 15 August,1995

and was linked to SSA in 2007. It's a is a welfare
scheme funded by the government of India, which offers
free cooked meals to students in primary and upper
primary schools, aiming at improving nutritional status
and school enrollment. This programme was meant for
students up to fifth class until recently. However, now it
has been extended till eighth class.
5-Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidalaya Scheme- This
scheme started in 2004 and is linked to SSA in
2007.The objective of KGBV is to ensure that quality
education is feasible and accessible to the girls of
disadvantaged groups of society by setting up
residential schools with boarding facilities at
elementary level.