Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)

Sarva shiksha abhiyan means education for all movement.SSA is programme for universal elementary education. This programme is also an attempt to provide an opportunity for improving human capabilities to all children through provision of community owned quality education in mission mode. It is a response to the demand for quality basic education all over the country.

·       SSA is an effort to universalize elementary education by community ownership of the school system.

·         It aim at changing the current school system in order to improve the quality of the education provide in the country.

·         The SSA programme is also an effort to provide an equal opportunity for children to grow and develop, knowledge and skill, through community owned quality education system.

·         It considered itself and opportunity for promoting social justice through basic education.

·         It aims at successfully involving panchayat raj institution, school management committees, village and urban slum level education committee, parent’s teachers association, mother teacher association, tribal autonomous council and other local level organization in the administration of elementary schools.

·         It aims at achieving an efficient partnership between central, state and local governments, while still proving the state with the autonomy of developing its own mission in regard to elementary education.

·         SSA means to remove all social regional and gender disparities in the education system through the active participation of the community.

·         Realizing the importance of early childhood care education.

Objectives of SSA

·         All children should either be in a school or an education guarantee center of an alternate school or back to school camp by 2003.

·         All children of the appropriate age will fulfill five year of primary schooling by 2007.

·         All children of the appropriate age will fulfill eight year of elementary schooling by 2010.

·          Bridge all gender and social class gaps at primary stage by 2007 and at the elementary education level by 2010.

·         Have universal retention in schools both primary and elementary

·         Universal retention by 2010.