Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Annual Work Plan & Budget 2008-2009

Abstract

From Introduction: 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 with time bound objectives. On one hand, SSA is a programme with its own targets, norms and processes and on the other it is an umbrella programme covering other programmes like District Primary Education Programme (DPEP). The gigantic dimensions of the programme and the financial implications call for a meticulous planning and a rigorous appraisal.