The Cabinet Committee on Economic
Affairs has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Human Resource Development
for the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA). This will facilitate the
States / UTs to execute the civil works for construction of new schools as well
as expanding capacity in existing schools.
The details are as follows:
(i) State/UT governments will be
permitted to use State Schedule of Rates (SSoR) or Central Public Works
Department (CPWD) Rate, (whichever is lower) for construction,
(ii) Enhancing the funds of
Management, Monitoring Evaluation and Research (MMER) from 2.2 percent to 4
percent of the total outlay,
(iii) Subsuming other centrally
sponsored schemes of secondary education- Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) at school, girls hostel, Inclusive Education for Disabled at
Secondary Stage (IEDSS) and Vocational Education (VE) in their existing form
under the umbrella of RMSA. The pattern of assistance as well as coverage of
schools as per their existing norms of all subsumed schemes will continue for
the 12th Five Year Plan,
(iv) Extending all the benefits of
RMSA to aided secondary schools excluding infrastructure support / core areas,
(v) continuation of existing fund
sharing pattern of 75:25 for the last four years of the 12th Plan to non –
North Eastern Region (NER) states and 90:10 for NER States (including Sikkim),
and
(vi) Authorizing the RMSA Project
Approval Board (PAD) of Ministry of Human Resource Development to consider for
approval of the integrated plan of the umbrella scheme of RMSA, including the
subsumed four centrally sponsored schemes of secondary education and release of
funds to the RMSA state implementation society directly.
Out of enhanced MMER of 4 percent,
fund up to 3.5 percent of the annual budget allocated for RMSA will be
earmarked to the states/UTs for activities undertaken under MMER. In those
states and UTs where the proposed percentages of MMER do not meet the
requirement, MMER can be enhanced upto 5 percent of the budget allocation of
the concerned states/UTs.
Background:
The objective of the scheme is to
enhance access and improve quality of education at the secondary stage while
ensuring equity.
The umbrella scheme of RMSA will be
implemented at state level by RMSA society. Though the broad strategy and the
targets of the scheme will not undergo any change, the decision of the Cabinet
will provide necessary impetus to the ongoing implementation of the scheme.
States and UTs will execute the
construction works smoothly after adoption of SSoR / CPWD rate. Enhancing MMER
will provide adequate manpower which will translate into better planning,
implementation, monitoring etc.
Inclusion of aided schools will help
in providing support to interventions that will improve the quality of
education in these schools.
Since inception of the scheme, the
RMSA has been able to enhance access to secondary schools by sanctioning
setting up of 9,636 new secondary schools, and strengthening of 34,300 existing
government secondary schools.
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