India Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) Seventh Joint Review Mission April 11-23, 2016 Aide Memoire

Abstract

Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) is a Programme of the Government of India, implemented in partnership with the State Governments with the main objective to make secondary education of good quality available, accessible and affordable to all young persons. The scheme seeks to enhance enrolment in classes IX and X by providing a secondary school within a reasonable distance of every habitation, to improve quality of education imparted at secondary level by ensuring all secondary schools conform to prescribed/ standard norms, to remove gender, socio-economic and disability barriers and to achieve universal access to secondary level education by 2017, i.e. by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan. RMSA was launched in 2009, funded through national resources (central government + state government) and now has tied up for external funding by Development Partners (DP) - World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), United Kingdom’s - Department of International Development (DFID) and European Union (EU). As part of the agreement for external aid from the DPs which came into effect in November, 2012, the Joint Review. Mission (-JRM) is to be conducted every six 'months in the months of January and July/August each year. The January Mission undertakes to visits States, while the July/August mission is a desk review.