1. PRESENTATION by The State Mission Authority Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Sikkim

2. Status of Elementary Education Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Sikkim

3. Goals and Interventions of SSA Flagship programme, Targets 6-14 yrs, Mission mode Goals: All children in School Bridge Gender and Social Gap Retain in Elementary education Education of satisfactory quality Interventions: Opening of new schools, alternate schooling facility, civil works, academic support, Counseling, Awareness

4. Status of RTE Sl.No.SubjectStatus and action taken 1State RulesNotified the State Rules under RTE Act – 2009 in the month of August vide Notification No.06/GEN/ADM/HRDD, dated 9 th Aug.2010. 2Academic AuthorityState Council of Educational research and training (SCERT) as Academic Authority under section 29 of RTE as per notification no 223/Est-1/HRDD dated:30/09/2010 3Protection of Child’s Educational Rights (SCPCR). Provisions of RTE Act is being incorporated in the notification of The Commissions for Protection of Child Rights Act-2005- (Gazette Notification: 21 December 2007) 4Eight year Elementary Education Cycle The State has Grade 1 to 5 primary and Grade 6 to 8 upper primary. 5No Detention.Policy is revised for No detention across the entire elementary level vide Notification No. 224/EST-I/HRDD, dated 30/09/2010 as section 16 of RTE Act. 6No Board Examinations till completion of Elementary Education No Child require to pass any board examination till completion of Elementary Education as per Notification bearing No.229/EST-I/HRDD, dated 30/09/2010. 7No Physical punishment, expulsion No corporal punishment and expulsion vide as per notification no: 226/Est-1/HRDD dated 30/09/2010. 8Guidelines on private tuition ban.No teacher shall engage in private tuition as per notification no: 225/Est-1/HRDD, dated 30/09/2010. 9Screening procedure and capitation fees. No school or person shall collect any capitation fee or subject to screening during admission process as per notification bears the 227/EST-I/HRDD, dated 30/09/2010.

5. Status of RTE Sl.No.SubjectStatus and action taken 10Guidelines on minimum number of working days / instructional hours in an academic year. Directives specifying Daily teaching and non-teaching time table per day were issued through circular vide No.228/Est-I/HRDD dated: 30/09/2010 & 280/EST-I/HRDD, dated 23/11/2010 as per RTE Act. 11Constitution of School Management Committee (SMCs) In all the State Government run schools, we have constituted SMCs as per the provisions of RTE Act 2009. 12Shiksha Ka Haq AbhiyanHRD Department, Government of Sikkim, launched ‘Shiksha Ka Haq Abhiyan’ on 11 th Nov.2011. One major component of the programme was the formation of 30-Members RTE Awareness volunteers in each Block in the State. These volunteers have been regularly visiting Schools and conducting programmes to make aware the teachers, students, SMCs ad public in general about RTE Act 2009. 13Preparation of CCE GuidelinesSince RTE Act 2009 and the State Rules on this Act came into force in 2010, HRD Department, has implemented the scheme of CCE. In the same year, Pedagogy Cell of SSA prepared a handbook in the form of guidebook has now been revised in 2012 academic session and the Revised Edition of this handbook has already been shared with Ed.Cil for their comments and suggestions. 14Provisions of 25% Seat Reservation in Class I in Private Schools for Weaker Section and Disadvantage group of society. The implementation of this Section of RTE Act is under process. The government has constituted a Committee to identify the Weaker Section and Disadvantage group of society. On the advice of Law Department, we have written to North-Eastern and other States to share their views on this subject. On receiving their response, we will frame the guidelines on the implementation of this Section of the Act. 15School Development PlanSSA wing of HRD Department, Government of Sikkim, has prepared a guidebook on how to prepare School Development Plan. The guidebook has been printed and distributed to all the blocks, Training Programmes on the concept of School Development Plan have also been conducted in all the Blocks. 16Neighbourhood School MappingThis is in progress. The department has entrusted this job to an NGO and the NGO is working on it in collaboration with NUEPA, New Delhi. The report of this exercise will help us to find out the actual situation in respect of neighbourhood schools. 17New Household SurveyIn order to make an assessment of requirement of primary and upper primary schools and also to estimate the number of ‘out of school children’ and other related parameters, the HRD Department has hired the services of Directorate of Economics Statistical Monitoring and Evaluation (DESME). The Directorate will be submitting the final report. 18Inclusive Education for CWSNAssessment Camps have been organized and the CWSN have been identified. We have also made ‘Inclusive Education’ as one of the important components of Teachers ‘Training Programme’. The primary aim of this programme is to make all the teachers familiar about the new concept of Inclusive Education.

6. State :SIKKIM2013-14 School CategoriesDept. of Education Tribal/ Social Welfare Dept. Local bodyPvt. AidedPvt. Un-aidedOthersCentral Govt.All Schools EAST SIKKIM Primary11328007800219 Primary with Upper Primary650006210128 Pr. with Up.Pr. sec. and H.Sec.2400270235 Up. Pr. Secondary and Higher Sec00000202 Pr. Up Pr. and Secondary Only3200180142 Upper Pr. and Secondary00000101 District Total :234280315543427 NORTH SIKKIM Primary451810120076 Primary with Upper Primary18000100028 Pr. with Up.Pr. sec. and H.Sec.40000004 Up. Pr. Secondary and Higher Sec00000011 Pr. Up Pr. and Secondary Only1100010012 Upper Pr. and Secondary00000011 District Total :7818102302122 SOUTH SIKKIM Primary12320008120226 Primary with Upper Primary59000331194 Pr. with Up.Pr. sec. and H.Sec.1400040018 Up. Pr. Secondary and Higher Sec00000011 Pr. Up Pr. and Secondary Only3300030036 District Total :229200012132375 WEST SIKKIM Primary13613106010211 Primary with Upper Primary47000380085 Pr. with Up.Pr. sec. and H.Sec.1600010017 Upper Primary only00000022 Up. Pr. Secondary and Higher Sec00000123 Pr. Up Pr. and Secondary Only2900060035 District Total :228131010524353 All Districts76979234049111277

7. All Management Schools by CategoryNo. of School Primary732 Primary with Upper Primary335 Upper Primary only2 Total Upper Primary337 Pr. Up Pr. and Secondary125 Upper Pr. and Secondary2 Total Secondary127 Pr. with Up.Pr. sec. and H.Sec.74 Up. Pr. Secondary and Higher Sec7 Total Sr. Secondary81 Total Sec. and Sr. Sec208 Total School1277 Department of Education Schools by CategoryNo. of School Primary417 Primary with Upper Primary189 Pr. Up Pr. and Secondary105 Pr. with Up.Pr. sec. and H.Sec.58 Total Sec. and Sr. Sec163 Total School769

8. SIKKIMAll Management Enrolment by Social Category 1 - General661863181293636993478717710317979620113 2 - SC307328965969162116943315469445909284 3 - ST1455512390269457548879416342221032118443287 4 - OBC1433513647279829753968219435240882332947417 Total3858135251738322262123648462696120258899120101 Enrolment out of Total Enrolment 5 - Muslim Minority7586961454355323678111310192132 6 - Christians3147297361202045222042655192519310385 7 - Sikhs10064164274673127110237 8 - Buddhist7836647314309397250048976118081147723285 9 - Parsi1621800016218 10 - Jain63821452414388796183 11 - Others53545108104623570334369138924845117375 Total17274153983267299931095020943272672634853615

9. Elementary Level % Sc Enol7.73 % ST Enol36.04 % of SC Girls49 % of ST Girls49 % Muslim Enol1.78 % of Muslim Girls48

10. All ManagementGovt+Aided YearPrimary % Increase /decrease Upper Primary % Increase /decrease Primary % Increase /decrease Upper Primary % Increase /decrease 2013-1473832-9.30%46269+3.55%49344-14.44%36389+2.91% Enrolment Trends:

11. Department of Education STATE Class 1 to 5Class 6 to 8Class 1 to 8 BoysGirlsTotalBoysGirlsTotalBoysGirlsTotal Enrolment by Social Category 1 - General3317357068872377243348105694600311697 2 - SC220421434347132414362760352835797107 3 - ST85358549170845731694212673142661549129757 4 - OBC95689492190607994815216146175621764435206 Total236242375447378174261896336389410504271783767 5 - Muslim4974839802792695487767521528 6 - Christians212620834209174219343676386840177885 7 - Sikhs3145762645715790147 8 - Buddhist4316448688023040402570657356851115867 9 - Parsi101000101 10 - Jain213051211435424486 11 - Others2986306460502726260953355712567311385 Total997810191201697834889616730178121908736899 Total17274153983267299931095020943272672634853615

12. District GER Primary Level BoysGirlsTotal EAST 146%139%143% WEST 138%130%134% NORTH 129%114%122% SOUTH 137%130%133% Total 141%133%137% District NER Primary Level BoysGirlsTotal EAST 99% WEST 85%80%82% NORTH 83%79%81% SOUTH 92% Total 93%91%92%

13. District NER Upper Primary Level BoysGirlsTotal EAST 77%80%78% WEST 61%56%59% NORTH 58%67%61% SOUTH 70%74%72% Total 70%71% District GER Upper Primary Level BoysGirlsTotal EAST 119%130%125% WEST 113%119%116% NORTH 95%110%103% SOUTH 114%121%118% Total 107%123%119%

14. Transition Rate V to VI District Using Repeaterswithout using Repeaters BoysGirlsTotalBoysGirlsTotal EAST94.897.5896.1794.9797.8796.4 NORTH85.493.2489.4985.893.2489.68 SOUTH90.0597.1193.4392.298.4895.21 WEST90.5100.295.1490.5100.2095.14 All Districts91.997.8194.7892.5698.2995.35

15. Primary Level 2013-14 Total Grade I - V EAST Repetition Rate0.830.520.68 Promotion Rate96.8199.6798.18 Dropout Rate2.3601.14 NORTH Repetition Rate1.120.520.83 Promotion Rate91.8693.1792.48 Dropout Rate7.036.316.69 SOUTH Repetition Rate2.272.12.19 Promotion Rate91.6295.4993.47 Dropout Rate6.122.414.34 WEST Repetition Rate0.690.570.63 Promotion Rate92.9595.4294.13 Dropout Rate6.364.015.24 STATE Repetition Rate1.230.931.08 Promotion Rate93.3195.9494.57 Dropout Rate5.473.184.35

16. Upper Primary Total Grade V I - V I I I BoysGirlsTotal EAST Repetition Rate0.040.060.05 Promotion Rate98.8099.0198.33 Dropout Rate1.160.941.62 NORTH Repetition Rate0.070.000.03 Promotion Rate92.5794.7194.21 Dropout Rate7.365.295.76 SOUTH Repetition Rate0.920.610.76 Promotion Rate94.8493.4094.50 Dropout Rate4.246.004.74 WEST Repetition Rate0.000.020.01 Promotion Rate96.5594.5394.45 Dropout Rate3.455.475.54 STATE Repetition Rate0.260.170.21 Promotion Rate95.6995.4195.37 Dropout Rate4.054.434.41

17. Status of BRCs and CRCs 17 DistrictTotal No. of functional BRCs Total No. of functional Clusters EAST 1030 NORTH 0416 SOUTH 0832 WEST 0733 All Districts 29111 Source: DISE 2013-14 NB: BACs has been notified as BRCs under SSA.

18. Access to Schooling and Children Participation Achievements

19. District-wise segregation of new schools School Category EastNorthSouthWestTotal Primary1014211762 Upper Primary 309243194 Total40234548156

20. Achievements

21. Appointment of Teachers under SSA Sl. No. Teacher CategoryEastNorthSouthWestTotal 1.Primary20284236126 2.Upper Primary90277290279 3.Monastic Teacher56364026158 4.Part Time Instructor a) Art Education53062227108 b) Music Teachers53062227108 c) Physical and Health Education 53062227108 Total325109216231887

22. Activities for Retention Achievements

23. Free Uniform and Free Textbooks All the children attending elementary classes are provided free textbooks amounting Rs. 150.00 per child per year under SSA All the children attending elementary classes are provided free uniform Rs. 400.00 per child per year with the financial Assistance from MHRD.

24. School Infrastructure [Civil Works] Achievements

25. BRC, CRC and School Buildings  9 Block Resource Centres are provided BRC Buildings  Constructed building for 96 Cluster Resource Centres  Provided Two Room RCC Buildings to 59 newly opened primary schools  Constructed Two Room RCC Building for one buildingless school of North District (Nadey PS)  Provided four room school buildings to 52 newly upgraded Jr. High School

26. Civil Works Achieved 100% Physical progress for the works sanctioned in 2013-14.

27. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya One KGBV is running in West District with 202 girls’ children Infrastructure for KGVB will be completed by March 2014.

28. Reintroduction of Pre-Primary Classes in all Govt. Schools The State Govt. reintroduced pre-primary classes in all the Schools i.e from primary to Sr. Schools for enhancing the learning of children of the age group 5 and 5+ years in 2013. The pre pry teachers have been appointed. The activity books of early reading & writing on Maths, English & Language have been developed by the State under early literacy programme in 2013. State has the programme of testing of developed materials among the children of pre-primary children attached with the school education system. For testing of materials developed under Early literacy Programme, State has to print and distribute these materials to 20% schools & collection of feedbacks and on the basis of feedbacks training module will be developed Fund of EARLY LITERACY PROGRAMME under the intervention Innovative Activities [ECCE]

29. Reintroduction of Pre-Primary Classes in all Govt. Schools (contd) These children have also been covered under MDM scheme. Uniform & Textbooks are also been provided. The main aim and objectives of bringing these children from ICDS to School System is to provide them with better infrastructure facilities, sound academic and hygienic atmosphere and also enhancing their skill of reading and writing as to cope up with the learning level of class I.

30. Executive and General Body Meeting Executive Committee meeting was held on 24 th September’13 under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Govt. of Sikkim. The minutes of the meeting were circulated to all Members of the Committee, a copy was sent to MHRD for information. General Body Meeting of State Mission Authority, SSA Sikkim was held on 30 th January’14 under the Chairmanship of the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Sikkim. The minutes of the meeting were circulated to all Members of the Committee, and a copy was sent to MHRD for information.

31. Bridging Social and Gender Category Gaps Achievements

32. Intervention for Children With Special Needs  Appointed 8 Resource Teachers  Appointed 29 Inclusive Education Volunteers  Developed Resource Rooms in all BRCs  Conducted Assessment Camps by involving Sikkim Doctors Welfare Association  Organized parent,teachers counseling

33. Glimpses of Inclusive Education

34. Financial Status

35. PAB Financial Approval 2013-2014 HEADSpill OverFreshTotal SSA642.074984.285626.36 KGBV371.24 59.49 430.73 TOTAL1013.315043.776057.09

36. PAB Sanction for Sikkim - 2013-14 Total Outlay Opening Balance GOI Release State Share released 13 th FC Grant 6057.09590.074195.08400.00-

37. Presentation on Issues

38. Presentation of issues Up-gradation of seven Primary Schools to Upper Primary Schools Recognition of newly notified two Blocks (Gram Vikas Kendra) as Block Resource Centres Computer Aided Learning Maintenance Grant

39. Up-gradation of seven Primary schools to upper primary Recent access survey conducted by the State has shown requirement of four upper primary schools in East District and three upper primary schools in South District. Reasons of the requirements are as under: -Natural barriers: new landslide zone emerged after effects of the Earthquake of 2011 -To provide upper primary schooling facility to the primary schools opened under SSA -After waiving out of the ‘Primary School : Upper Primary school ratio’ of 2:1 after enactment of RTE Act in the State and the norms of neighbourhood -Demands of School Management Committee and public

40. Recognition of newly notified blocks as Block resource centres State Government has created and notified two Blocks (Gram Vikas Centres) viz. Tashiding Chongrang and Chumbung for which State has proposed for recognition as Block Resource Centres for SSA so that SSA can tune its developmental activities of the State Government. This will also facilitate the blocks for training of teachers and monitoring activities.

41. Computer aided learning CAL is one of the major programme for Quality Education Almost all the computer hard wares provided to schools in the year 2004-05 are either obsolete or non-functional which require replacement. State’s achievement level of students in Mathematics [As per NAS] at elementary level is far below National average and keeping in view of that, State proposes to supply Mathematics software to enhance Maths learning Training of teachers to use computer as effective learning aids in the classroom Development of subject specific software for visual learning in accordance with the syllabus of SCERT in phased wise manner.

42. Requirement of Maintenance & Teacher Grant Maintenance & Teachers Grant Fund are only revolving fund for schools at elementary level as the elementary schools are not allowed to collect capitation fees as per RTE Act 2009. State has proposed Maintenance & Teacher Grant for 1200 schools & 7675 teachers respectively as per prescribed unit cost.

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