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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 life
Bridge all gender and social category gaps at primary stage by 2007 and at elementary education level by 2010
Universal retention by 2010
Educational Statistics
Status of Child Population Across The Years
[Age Group 5-14 Years]
Year Population Out of School In School % of Out-
Of-School
% of Out
Name of District Child Population In School Out of School of School
Component
Smart School (Computer Aided Learning):
Computer Aided Learning in Elementary Education (CALiES) is the concrete expression of the Government of Assam to bridge the
digital divide by harnessing the potential of Information Technology to aid educational transaction to improve its quality education.
Axom Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission has moved ahead to tap these new opportunities for 500 Upper Primary Schools across the state
by harnessing the potential of Information Communication Technology to aid educational transaction to improve its quality
education. SSA, Assam is the pioneer of Computer Aided Learning in the country in 2003-04. Now, in Assam about 16% Middle
schools are covered under CAL. The CAL programme have been successfully running through Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
Schools are distributed across the districts irrespective of being located in Special Focus Areas.
Each school is provided with adequate infrastructure with 4 Computers, 1 Printer and two UPS Systems.
Each school is provided with Multimedia Based Teaching Learning aids on CD for selected 31 hard spots (topics) in Science,
Mathematics and English subjects in three languages - Assamese, Bodo and Bengali.
Initially these contents are developed for Class V & VI and in due course the coverage will be extended to Class VII.
A 10-day teacher training conducted for 2 teachers from each of the school every year.
Regular Technical Support by Technical Para Teacher to all the CAL schools.
Already generator sets have been provided to 341 selected schools during 2008-09 to cop-up the electricity problem.
In addition to these CAL schools, some new initiatives have been done by SSA, Assam under Computer Aided Learning:
An Education Guarantee Scheme [EGS] opened in un-served habitations where no schooling facility is exists. Axom Sarba
Siksha Abhijan Mission has come forward to provide education to the children of such habitations, in cooperation with the local
community, under the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS).The Mission has identified those habitations which have no
schooling facility of any kind within a radius of 1.5 K.M.
2004-05 161616
178037
2005-06 338490 311888
Units Numbers
Sanjogi Siksha Kendra is an innovative effort of SSA, Assam to bring in the OSC of 7- 14 years age to the centre and bridge
their learning needs in limited time frame. The programme was first implemented in Assam in December, 2005.
For bringing the out of school children into school SSA in Assam has been implementing different strategies in rural areas.
Under AIE, following major activities has been implemented for different target groups:
Through Sanjogi Siksha Kendra, SSA Assam has been covering 2,66,722 children continuing from April, 2008 in 10,975 SSKs &
WSSKs. Budget has been provided for 116700 children for continuance and 205705 children for covering afresh through SSK &
CCP. 3,12,413 children have been covered through SSKs among them 177,236 have been mainstreamed into formal school.
Basic objective of opening Sanjogi Siksha Kendra ( SSK) are to initially enroll the out of school children in the centre and
after completing the bridge course mainstreaming of the children into formal school . The SSKs centres started mainstreaming
children in formal school since November, 2006.
The mainstreaming of children was initially slow due to different reasons. The District Quality Managers were engaged in
September, 2006 for exclusive monitoring of these centres. The Centres have been provided all required materials like Bridge
Materials, Evaluation Workbook, Activity Chart , exercise book, pencil, slates, school bag along with other supporting
materials like blackboard, sitting mat, carom board filter, bucket radio set, trunk etc. in 2007-08.
In 2008-09, SSA has emphasized mainstreaming children in formal school from the existing SSKs. With intensive monitoring
and follow up action during 2008-09 , SSA has been successful in increasing the rate of mainstreaming than previous years.
The number of children mainstreamed has increased from 32,077 and 68,281 in last two preceding years to 1,77,236 this
year .
Summer Camp :
Summer camp was organized to motivate the mainstreamed children of SSK in July , 2008 during summer vacation. The
main objective of summer camp was to help in retaining the mainstreamed children in school. A Resource Person Training
was conducted at State Mission Office with the DQMs from all districts. The DQM have trained the SKs about the activities to
be undertaken in the 18 day summer camp programme. The activities included a set of motivational activities, one meeting
with guardian etc. The children were provided a set of TLMs and the school were provided some other materials for the
camp.
Worksite Sanjogi Siksha Kendra:
342 Worksite SSK have been continued from 2007-08 covering 11075 migrated children in brick kilns. The children have
returned to their native village along with their parents during April- June, 2008. The children were provided with a migration
certificate. The parents/guardian was sensitized so that the children are mainstreamed in the formal school/SSK/EGS of their
native village.
Child Tracking Programme :
The child tacking programme were implemented to track the children returned after migration. A state level workshop was
held to discus the strategies for tracking the children returned after migration. The receiving area districts have shared their
list of children enrolled in their WSSK with the sending area districts. A team was formed with the DQM & SKs to find the listed
children returning from migration.
Another batch of 165 number of WSSK have been opened to cover 6615 children in brick kilns of different districts this year in
Sept- December ,2008.
Community Coaching Programme [CCP]:
Through Community Coaching Programme the OSC scattered in habitations are covered .The Community Coaching Programme
was first started functioning from March, 2006 in 280 villages covering 3872 children. This year 12337 children have been
covered in 883 CCP centres continuing from 2007-08. All these centres closed after mainstreaming their children in November,
2008.
Another batch of 201 number of CCP opened this year covering 3583 children.
Display of Banner and distribution of Leaflets:
Multicolour leaflets and flex banner are printed and distributed in Assamese, Bengali & Bodo language on the issues of
education of child labour.
Slide Show in Mobile Theatre:
A publicity campaign on the issues of education of child labour has been implemented by organising slide show in six prominent
Mobile Theatres viz. Kohinoor theatre, Awahan Theatre, Bhagyadevi Theatre, Bordoichila Theatre, Devaraj Theatre, Chitralekha
Theatre. The content of the multimedia presentation have been developed and the DMO, Barpeta finally have arranged the
contract with the Theatre from October 2008 onwards. There will be shows all over Assam in almost all days by the six
theatres till late April, 2009 displaying the 30 second presentation just before starting of the play. Each show covers 1500-
3000 audiences on daily basis.
Debating Competition on Child labour issues:
A district level debating competition have been organized among all colleges/ HS schools covering the participants from Class-
IX to Post Graduate level on the theme of UEE & Child labour. All districts have completed the competition.
Radio Reach Out “Sanjog”:
A radio programme called “Sanjog” have been prepared and broadcast for reaching out to the out of school Children, children
already enrolled in AIE centres. The radio is used as a tool of communication with the field workers and children through
distance mode without transmission loss. The programme also has a objective of providing direct resource support to the field
workers (Siksha Karmis & Distrit Quality Managers). The programme was launched from November 27th,. The Assamese
programme is being broadcast on every Tuesday 7-30 am & Thursday 12 -15 pm through All India Radio Guwahati &
Dibrugarh. The Tuesday programme is targeted for the Siksha Karmi and other field level functionaries along with the Mass
audience where as the Thursday programme is specially designed for children of AIE ntres.
The Bengali & Bodo programme are broadcast through AIR, Silchar & Kokrajhar respectively.
Workshop for Review of Bridge Materials and development of handbook and other materials:
The existing bridge materials have been revised in a six day workshop held in September , 2008 .Some printed materials
like diary of SK, competency chart , Handbook of Siksha karmi are developed in the workshop.
Support to Religious Madrassa :
There are a large number of religious madrassa functioning in Assam. These institutions impart religious education to the
children of Muslim Community. The core curriculum of these institutions is purely religious and main aim is to create a group of
religious priest/scholar from amongst the students.
These Madrassas cover a sizeable number of children of below 14 years age and most of them are not getting any input of
formal education as such. To bring this group of children into the purview of formal education, SSA, Assam has taken up steps
to establish a partnership with this institution so that some kind of support can be given facilitating introduction of the subjects
of formal education in the already existing set up. For this programme the religious madrassa having children of 5-14 years
age enrolled have to be separately identified for initiation of the programme.
Already the districts have operationalised the programme since September, 2008 covering 13370 children in 243 religious
madrassa.
Upper Primary Bridge Course:
It has been observed that a large number of children drop out from Upper Primary ( Class V, VI & VII) classes due to different
reasons. Some children even could not get admitted in the UP School after completion of LP (i.e. Class IV) classes. For bringing
this section of children back into the UP School a non residential bridge course of nine months duration was planned in the UP
School itself for re-enrolment of recent drop outs in the UP school. The high drop out occurring Upper Primary School are
being identified and the drop out children from that particular school, particularly the recent drop outs will be targeted under
this intervention. The total coverage including the tentative coverage to be achieved by March, 2009 will 27460 children in
1094 centres.
Residential Bridge Course Centre [RBCC]:
RBC in Assam have been covering the child labour and other OSC of 10-14 years age group .10 RBC Centres were started in
2003-04 in 9 districts of Assam with capacity of enrolling 970 children.
The intake capacity of RBC centres have been enhanced from 970 to 1200 children in 2007-08.
Subsequent to the recent amendment of the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986, a Special Drive for releasing
the child labour from the bondage of work has been conducted in 2007-08 and children were enrolled in RBC centres. In 2008-
09, SSA, Assam has been continuing the existing 10 RBC centres covering 1200 children in 9 districts and 33 new RBC centres
have been opened in 22 districts, covering all districts except Dhemaji enrolling 3380 child labours.
Special Programme For Child Labour:
Sarba Siksha Abhijan, Assam in its bid to achieve the goal of Universalisation of Elementary Education has been facing its
toughest hurdles in covering the child labours. The children engaged in work get embedded in a cobweb where the interest of
the children is diluted and it appears that the parents and the employer has some common interests. The activist advocating
the cause of education of the children is often presumed as an enemy of the interests of both the employer and the parents.
In case of engagement of child labour the prevailing contract is in between the parents/wards of the children and the
employer. The Child has no role in deciding the terms and conditions of their employment. The phenomenon of Child labour is
a stark example of exploitation of the children by their employer as well as the parents/wards of the children.
As per the census report of 2001 Assam has 3,51, 416 child labourers of 5-14 years age group. The number in whole
country counted to the tune of 1.26 crore as per that census.
SSA has taken two prong approaches to bring the child labour into the fold of education. One by partial release of the children
from works and enrolling them in non residential Alternative Schooling Centres like Sanjogi Siksha Kendra ( SSK) and Jyoti
Kendra. The Siksha Karmi ( SK) of these centres plays a vital role in visiting the employer and trying to convince them to
send the working children to SSK or Jyoti Kendra. The coaxing works only after sincere follow up of the first approach made
by the SKs Initially reluctant employers also often finally give in after seeing fellow employer doing the same. But the conflict
of works and learning time continues and often the SK faces the challenges of untimely dropping out of the children.
Enrolment in Residential Bridge Course:
The second approach that SSA has taken up has achieved limited coverage in terms of quantity but is more visible as a
concrete step towards complete release of the child labour from works. SSA has been enrolling working children in its
Residential Bridge Course (RBC) Centres since 2003. It is evident that a residential facility is sine qua non for a child labour
rehabilitation programme . We just can not ask the children to leave the work and join the school. Simply it is not feasible.
Most of the child labour comes across a large distance from their homes to work somewhere. Hence they need a shelter and
free foods and other facilities for their immediate survival and joining in school.
Child labour Release and enrolment in RBC Centres:
SSA has successfully conducted child labour release operation in all the districts having RBC centres during July to October,
this year. A group was formed to visit the work places and release the children under the leadership of an executive
magistrate in each district. Officials from SSA, Education Labour, Transport and Social welfare department along with the
Police and NGO volunteers raided the work places and released the children from work. The children are brought to the
Residential Bridge Course Centres of the respective districts. 43 RBC centres covered 4580 working children through this
programme in 2008-09. SSA have successfully conducted this child labour release programme with the active participation and
support of district administration. This programme has been able to draw media attention and it helped in SSA‟s efforts for
generation of awareness on education of child labour.
The Management Information System in SSA is used as Information Management and Systems, covering the application of Peoples,
Technologies and Activities for a unique and innovative effort towards achieving the objectives of Universalisation of Primary
Education. It was realized that a sound information base for planning and monitoring of project intervention is an almost non-
negotiable requirement. The aim for establishing Management Information System (MIS) in SSA is to give fully IT related support to
each and every activities of mission in the state of Assam and to provide all sorts of Decision Making Support in the area of
Elementary Education to meet the growing needs of the decentralized planning. There were many challenges to establish and sustain
such a system. Since school statistics formed the core of educational statistics, it was rightly recognized that major reforms in school
statistics both in terms of their scope and coverage as well as availability and use have to be carried out.
Management Information System involves the collection of reliable and accurate educational data, to study and analyze the change in
quality of education and its impacts in the educational scenario in the state. The MIS also involves in collection, compilation and
dissemination of information from top to grass-root level educational functionaries. At present, a numbers of databases has been
developed and maintained in the MIS to monitor the implementation of different mission activities up-to the habitation level.
The District Information System for Education [DISE] is a key database to keep track of the information about the schools, enrolment,
teachers and other school related data. The district wise databases are compiled at state level and reports are generated accordingly.
The compiled database is sent to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. The other periodically updated
databases are VER [Village Education Register], status of out of school children and other component related database. The major
works of the MIS is to computerize the upcoming House-to-House survey data and analyze the data with the pervious trends.
Moreover, MIS is becoming an integral part in computerizing the basic teacher related data [Teacher‟s Directory] in the elementary
level. The teacher database is being used for assessment of long-term requirement of teachers and the plan head wise would financial
involvement.
Many additional mechanisms for data validation and quality control of school statistics were also introduced. A 5% sample validation
check is undertaken in sample districts immediately after data collection. Moreover, the software provides for many consistency and
validation checks. The reverse flow of data has been strengthened to ensure transparency and dissemination of data up to the school
level. These types of validation measures and transparency of data has resulted in considerable improvement in the quality of data
collection and reporting.
At State level, one System Analyst, two Programmers, one Associate Programmer and Seven Data Entry Operators are in place. At
District level, One Programmer and two Data Entry Operators are in place.
The State MIS is equipped with Hardware like Server, Desktops, Laptops, UPS and Printers with LAN facility. The Software like
Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 98 operating system, Microsoft office, Visual Studio and Norton Antivirus .
The following Hardware & Software are available in all 23 district of SSA, Assam :
Hardware: 6 sets of computers with one printer, one scanner, one modem and LAN system are available. In case of erstwhile nine
DPEP districts 7 sets of computers are available.
Software: Oracle 8i, MS Visual Studio 6, MS Office XP, MS Windows XP, MS Windows 98.
A large number of Out of School children are working children and they are the Hard-to-reach group. They are the most vulnerable
and elusive group of children among the out-of school children and hence require cautious and concentrated attention to ensure their
protection and educational rights.
A Jyoti Kendra is set up in urban area for street and slum children of age group 6-14 years. Children are given education and then
they are mainstreamed in nearby formal schools. children who are at the railway platform, children who commute daily from different
parts to the city (usually found in near railway platforms, bus stands, markets, etc.), juvenile delinquents and children of commercial
sex workers
TEACHER TRAINING
SSA, Assam in its stride towards twisting the classroom environment in desired direction had adopted a comprehensive work plan for
quality education and for facilitating a holistic intervention in the schools. The elements of Classroom change, for that matter learning
enhancement were taken well care of. The three pronged strategy basically comprised of provision of children learning materials,
capacity building of teachers - school category-wise for quality teaching-learning process in schools and on job school support by the
State, District and Block academic Core groups.
SCERT has conducted Teachers Training during 2003-04 and covered 100352 nos. of teachers.
Periodic Evaluation:
The evaluation of schools is based on the marks scored by the learners of each class in each subject. The grade A for scoring above
60% marks, grade B is 40% to 60% and grade C is below 40% evaluated for each students in the examinations for each class in each
subject.
Comparisons of Schools based on End-Term Evaluation of Lower Primary Schools Class: I -IV]
Year -> 2005 2006 2007 2008
Grade -> C B A C B A C B A C B
% Schools 37% 43% 20% 15% 61% 24% 12% 60% 28% 11% 59% 3
A micro intervention named as 'Bidyajyoti' was undertaken in 2003 in Class -I as a pilot basis on qualitative improvement of
learning levels of learners through the strategy of school/ community based intervention.
The programme focused on:
Reading Promotion Programme [Parhim- Shikim] Convergence Programme with „Pratham‟ [NGO]:
Conducted RPP during Sept-Nov 2008 for Class I to IV covering 83 blocks
3859 Teachers were trained
Provided Reading Materials in local languages
Conducted Base line and Tern End Evaluation
Conducted 6-day need based in-service Teacher Training at block level viz. Art Education, Micro Teaching, use of TLM,
Physical Education [Yoga], Disaster management, School Management, Spoken English, Co-curriculum Activities and
Sculpture Making, etc.
6-day Extensive Class room based Training on Science and Mathematics
3-day teacher training on „Amar Prayash‟ [ADEPTS] for LP and UP Schools.
3-day Training on English [New Text Book] for Class-II
Organized 5-day teacher training on Science, Social Science, English and Mathematics for Class-VIII teachers.
3420 Un-trained teachers were trained through IGNOU.
Formation of Subjects Specific Recourse Group
Remedial Teaching:
Inclusive Education
SSA plans to ensure that every child with special needs, irrespective of kind, category and degree of disability, is provided education in
an appropriate environment.
Girls Education:
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidalaya (KGBV) – is a scheme to provide elementary level quality and life skill educational facility to
girl children of the age group 10 to 14 years belonging to SC, ST, OBC and Minority communities. Under this scheme,
residential school and hostel facilities for girls is established in the Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) , towns and minority
concentrated areas, all over the country. The criteria followed for setting up the schools are - blocks with rural female literacy
below the national average and gender gap in literacy more than the national average and minority population above 20% (as
per Census 2001).
In Assam, 15 identified EBBs spreading across 8 (eight) districts (Darrang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Karbi-Anglong, Nalbari, NC
Hills, Sibsagar and Tinsukia) and 11 blocks as per the revised guidelines of Ministry of Minority affairs and MHRD in 7 Districts
( Darrang, Karbi Anglong, Dhubri, Sonitpur, Barpeta ,Kamrup and Lakhimpur ) are identified as eligible for implementing the
scheme.
Altogether 26 nos of KGBVs are sanctioned in 26 Blocks of 13 Districts of Assam which are functioning and each KGBV school is
set up with enrolment of girl children as per the capacity. All these schools are running in rented/ Govt. abandoned buildings.
The NPEGEL scheme has implemented in the 15 Educationally Backward Blocks [same EBBs as mentioned in KGBV] of 8 districts
[Same districts as mentioned in KGBV]] of Assam. Out of which, Assam Mahila Samata Society has been implementing NPEGEL
scheme in 6 EB blocks of 3 districts i.e. Tinsukia, Darrang and Dhemaji. In other 5 districts, the scheme has been implementing by
SSA, Assam.
Preparatory exercise like categorization of the out of school girl children has already been conducted by collecting information on girl
child as per the following categories –
A. Category –I: All out of school girl children in age group of 4-14 years.
B. Category–II: All out of school girl children in age group of 14-16 years.
C. Category–III: All school going (irregular) girl children in age group of 4-14 years.
The status of illiterate girl children, working girl children, girl child who have not completed class-IV and VII were also collected
covering ST, SC, OBC and minority community of each village under these blocks.
The State Institute of Educational management and Training will be set up to impart training to the Educational functionaries of the
districts. The new building of SIEMAT is constructed and will be opened shortly.
The Drinking Water Facility and Toilet facility will be provided to all the schools : The coverage up to 2006-07 is:
Toilet Facility :
Community Mobilization
Status of Peoples Committees in 2008-09:
Members of Peoples‟ Committees are trained through the programme „Sankalpa Jatra‟ : covered 179556 members.
To boost the children in co-curricular activates, „Education for All‟ programme and summer camps are organised across
the state.
Updated VER/WER
Meeting with PRI members
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Reading Enhancement Programme in classes-I & II in collaboration with Pratham (Pilot phase of 33 days in Paschim
Nalbari & Kamalpur blocks during April-June, 2007) :
Before After
Reading Enhancement Programme in classes-I & II in collaboration with Pratham (Parhim-Shikim) has been
launched in all Assamese, Bengali & Bodo medium Lower Primary and MV schools on 19thSeptember, 2007:
a) Schools covered = 28,643
b) Tea-garden management schools covered under the programme in collaboration with UNICEF = 367
c) EGS centres of Tea-gardens covered under the programme in collaboration with UNICEF = 612
Training Programme imparted
a) State Level Resource Person Training : 69 CRCCs and 46 District Coordinators of Pratham participated
b) District Level Resource Person Training : 2473 CRCCs, 145 ABRCCs, 145 DIET Faculties, 23 DPOs(TT), 23 DPOs(EGS),
40 DQMs(BJ) participated.
c) Teacher Training : 28,643 no. of Teachers participated in 2 days Induction Level Training, 1 day Reinforcement
Training for 2 times till 30th Oct, 2007.
Materials Developed
Goals: The learning goals for target children in the programme will be-
Goals to achieve
All children at least are able to All children are able to read
All children at least recognize read simple words and small unseen paragraph without
Std- I
all alphabets. sentences. conjoined letter
with understanding
All children, at least, are able to All children are able to read
All children, at least, are able read simple sentences [unseen unseen paragraph having
Std - II to read simple words with & from textbooks] with conjoined letter
conjoined letter conjoined letter with understanding
Meena Campaign
Areas of implementation :
The Meena Clubs will be established in
• Tea Garden Divisions- 1055.
• Schools & EGS in Ex-Tea garden areas- 1336.
• Schools and EGS in Char areas- 2180.
The campaign in Tea Areas will be conducted in collaboration with UNICEF.
Objectives of the “Meena campaign”:
• To make an attempt to eliminate the problems of girls education in Tea & Ex - Tea Garden and Char areas.
• To make the Community, Parents and Teachers aware about 100% retention of girl children.
To establish Meena Club among the girl children in Tea & Ex - Tea Garden and Char areas.