Volume : 4, Issue : 12, DEC 2018

IMPLEMENTATION OF SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN PROGRAMME IN UPPER SHILLONG EAST KHASI HILLS DISTRICT, MEGHALAYA

MS FAHMIDA S. BORA, MS MARSIEWDOR JYRWA

Abstract

Education involves not only textbook learning but also a growth of values, skills and capacities. This help individual to plan for their career as well as play a useful part in building a new society with progressive values. Hence, education results in changing both individual lives as well as that of the entire community. The SSA programme is also an attempt to provide an opportunity for improving human capabilities to all children, through provision of community-owned quality education in a mission mode. It is also an opportunity for promoting social justice through basic education, for states to develop their own vision of elementary education. . One of the focus areas of SSA is to increase access, enrolment, retention of all children and to reduce school drop outs. The emphasis of SSA is also on providing quality education to all children. It has been rarely considered that the special educational needs of these children could be met by providing adequate resource support to them in regular schools and giving them an opportunity to receive education in the most appropriate environment. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan realizes the importance of early childhood care and education and looks at the 0-14 age as a continuum. The SSA programme’s focus is to allow children to learn and grow materially and spiritually in their natural environment. The present study reveals that SSA has done well to achieve the major objectives and aims in the State. Effective administrative systems exist in SSA schools in Upper Shillong area. The enrollment ratio is increased and the dropout rate has been reduced. However, better awareness on the importance of education in villages/communities will lead to make it easier to enroll more students and lessen the dropout rates even further.

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