Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Samithi - Karnataka Annual Work Plan for The Year 2008-09: Consolidated State Plan

Abstract

Sarva Shikshana Abhiyan (SSA) in Karnataka State is entering its eighth year of functioning during 2008-09. Hardly two years are left for the realisation of the vision of all the goals of Universalisation of Elementary Education through the SSA Mission which is on a project mode. The years gone by have been virtually a race against time. Success so far constitutes a mixed bag. At the end of 2007-08, a sigh of relief can be expressed in regard to the SSA goals of access, enrolment and participation of children. Problems herein are residual. It can be confidently reported that by the end of the project period that these problems would have been fully addressed. Nevertheless, concerns of equity and regional parity persist and they need to be addressed in the coming years. The EMIS in Karnataka State reveals that non-enrolment of 6+ children in the State is a decreasing phenomenon. Even the volume of out of school children is phenomenally on the decline, while the identified children are brought under one or the other Alternative Education schemes.