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

2. State Project Office [SSA] Human Resource Development Department
STATUS OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND PROGRESS under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
State Project Office [SSA]
Human Resource Development Department
Government of Sikkim

3. About Sikkim: In Brief Area : 7096 Sq. Km No. of Districts : 04
No. of Sub-District : 09
No. of Blocks : 29
Population : 6,07,688
Literacy Rate : 82.20%
Children Population in 6 to 14 years :
Total Govt. Schools: 776
All management Schools : 1279
Total Students at Elementary Level :

4. About Sikkim: In Brief Least populous state in India
Second smallest state in terms of area (after Goa 3702sq km)
Most beautiful and strategically important states of the Indian union
Unique distinction of more females than males at different levels of education
8th state and 2nd NE state having best GER at Higher Education

5. SOME OF THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS MADE BY THE DEPARTMENT
Re-introduction of Pre-Primary classes in Govt. Schools.
No gender discrimination M&F Lit Dif 10%, NA 16.68%
Timely Distribution of free Textbook and Uniform under RTE with the financial assistance from MHRD.
Up-gradation of Schools , CBSE affiliation.
Introduction of Lesson in Law
Orientation Programme to the Students and Teachers.
Quality measures: Content change, Revision, Qualified teachers
QCI, NABET agreement
Assistance to Minority Educational Institutions through MHRD.
Science Stream in all Sr. Sec. Schools.

6. SOME OF THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS MADE BY THE DEPARTMENT
Winter Coaching Camp-bagged 1st position in class X and XII.
Reward to 1st 2nd and 3rd toppers of class X, XII (Huma,Sci,Com,Voc)
More Scholarship to Science graduates (Hike from Rs 1200 to 1600)
Introduction of B.Sc stream in Namchi Degree College (150).
2nd Campus for Gangtok Degree College (200)
Coaching for UPSC Exam, SSC exam (96+11).
Vocational Education as MHRD approved
Accepted GOIs NEET and JEE to avail All India quota in addition to the available quota seats to the State.
Research and innovation: More Scholarships for Ph.D and M.Phil
Concentrating on e- Learning: Computers to students
KGBV established with the financial assistance from MHRD with Students

7. Awards received by state for its excellence in Education sector
State is conferred with Commendation certificate from QCI for the initiatives taken by the State for Quality Education, Bridging the infra-structure gap and timely distribution of study materials.
India Today’s Best performing State in the field of Elementary Education (under small state category) for the year 2011
Best North-Eastern state Education Department award in the National level painting competition on Energy conservation

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

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

10. Status of RTE Sl.No. Subject Status and action taken 1 State Rules
Notified the State Rules under RTE Act – 2009 in the month of August vide Notification No.06/GEN/ADM/HRDD, dated 9th Aug.2010. 2
Academic Authority
State 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 3
Protection 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 (Gazette Notification: 21 December 2007) 4
Eight year Elementary Education Cycle
The State has Grade 1 to 5 primary and Grade 6 to 8 upper primary. 5
No 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. 6
No 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. 7
No Physical punishment, expulsion
No corporal punishment and expulsion vide as per notification no: 226/Est-1/HRDD dated 30/09/2010. 8
Guidelines on private tuition ban.
No teacher shall engage in private tuition as per notification no: 225/Est-1/HRDD, dated 30/09/2010. 9
Screening 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.

11. Status of RTE Sl.No. Subject Status and action taken 10
Guidelines 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. 11
Constitution of School Management Committee (SMCs)
In all the State Government run schools, we have constituted SMCs as per the provisions of RTE Act 2009. 12
Shiksha Ka Haq Abhiyan
HRD Department, Government of Sikkim, launched ‘Shiksha Ka Haq Abhiyan’ on 11th Nov 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. 13
Preparation of CCE Guidelines
Since 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. 14
Provisions 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. 15
School Development Plan
SSA 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. 16
Neighbourhood School Mapping
This is in progress. The department has entrusted this job to an NGO and the NGO is working on it in collaboration with NEUPA, New Delhi. The report of this exercise will help us to find out the actual situation in respect of neighbourhood schools. 17
New Household Survey
In 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. 18
Inclusive Education for CWSN
Assessment 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.

12. Enrolment in All Management Schools
District
Class I - V
Class VI - VIII
Class I - VIII
Primary Level
Upper Primary Level
Elementry Level
Boys
Girls
Total
North
2787
2529
5316
1315
1526
2841
4102
4055
8157
West
10777
9863
20640
5305
5834
11139
16082
15697
31779
South
10603
9744
20347
5263
5860
11123
15866
15604
31470
East
17927
16472
34399
9310
10215
19525
27237
26687
53924
42094
38608
80702
21193
23435
44628
63287
62043
125330
Source: DISE

13. Status of Out of School Children
Name of Districts
Primary Level
Upper Primary
Total
Boys
Girls
EAST
103 82
185
104 99
203
388
WEST
138 86
224 62 43
105
329
NORTH 17 12 29 32 24 56 85
SOUTH 66 58
124
154
259
383
324
238
562
352
271
623
1185
Source: Household Survey

14. Educational Indicators
Major Areas
Indicators
GER Primary
106
GER Upper Primary
107
NER Primary 71
NER Upper Primary 61
Retention Rate Primary 94
Retention Rate Upper Primary 92
Transition Rate 96
Source: DISE

15. Total No. of functional BRCs Total No. of functional Clusters
Status of BRCs and CRCs
District
Total No. of functional BRCs
Total No. of functional Clusters
EAST 10 30
NORTH 04 16
SOUTH 08 32
WEST 07 33
All Districts 29
111
This is new arrangement. As per old arrangement, there were 9 BRBs and 131 CRCs
NB: BACs has been notified as BRCs under SSA.
Source: DISE

16. Access to Schooling and Children Participation
Achievements
Access to Schooling and Children Participation

17. District-wise segregation of new schools
School Category
East
North
South
West
Total
Primary 10 14 21 17 62
Upper Primary 30 9 24 31 94 40 23 45 48
156

18. Special Trainings and its Centres
4 STRs are being run by NGOs at different districts.
Out of 1044 Out of School Children , 893 Children enrolled in STR Centre and 619 Children have already been Mainstreamed during
Special Training Materials have been prepared and provided to all the Centres.

19. Achievements Enhancing Quality of Education
1. Appointments of Teachers and Resource Persons 2. Teacher Training 3. BRCs & CRCs
4. Learning Enhancement Programme
5. Computer Aided Learning
6. Revision of Text books
7. School Libraries
8. Teaching Learning Materials

20. Appointment of Teachers under SSA
Sl.
No.
Teacher Category
East
North
South
West
Total 1.
Primary 20 28 42 34
124 2.
Upper Primary 90 27 72
279 3.
Monastic Teacher 56 36 40 26
158 4.
Part Time Instructor
a) Art Education 53 06 22
108
b) Music Teachers
c) Physical and Health Education
325
109
216
231
885

21. Appointment of Resource Persons
Appointed 54 Resource Persons (Subject Experts) to provide on-site supports to the teachers at Sub-divison level.
Appointed 18 Inclusive Education Volunteers to provide support to teachers to handle differently abled children in the class.

22. Community Mobilisation
The Hon’ble Chief Minister alongwith the Cabinet Minister, MLAs , HODs and Officers of HRDD in order to sensitize the students, teachers, parents, SMCs, PRI on RTE interacted directly with them in three districts. In his interaction he highlighted the provision of RTE act and the vision behind it. The teachers were directed to implement provision of RTE act in letter and spirit.

23. Community Mobilisation

24. Strengthening (Augmentation) of Block Resource Centre
BRCs are equipped with computers desktop and peripherals, one each laptop, LCD projector, LCD screen, dot-matrix and laser printer, Xerox machines to enable them to serve as teacher training centres.
Strengthened with manpower
Provided annual grants (1 lakh per BRC)
Provided furniture (1 lakh once in 5 yrs)
Provided TLM Grant (10,000/- per BRC)

25. Manpower provided to BRCs
Sl.
No.
Post
East
North
South
West
Total 1.
Block Resource Coordinator 10 4 8 7 29 2.
MIS Coordinator 3.
Computer Operator 4.
Accountant-cum-Support Staff 40 16 32 28
116

26. Strengthening of Cluster Resource Centre
One each CRC Coordinator provided to Cluster Resource Centres
Provided annual grants (Rs /- per CRC annually)
Provided furniture (Rs. 10,000/- per CRC once in 5 yrs)
Provided TLM Grant (Rs. 3000/- per CRC annually)

27. Computer Aided Learning
Provided computers and peripherals to schools
Provided trainings to teachers to use computer as teaching learning aid

28. Revision of Textbooks
Revised Curriculum and Textbooks of primary classes (Classes I to V) to ensure burdenless and trauma free learning of children
Half yearly Term-wise Textbooks i.e. Term – I and Term – II for all subjects for Primary classes. Textbooks are shared with Ed.CIL
Books are developed by SCERT and published by Private publisher to ensure timely distribution of textbooks
State is using NCERT Textbooks for upper primary classes except English and languages
The Text-Books have been revised with the inclusion of adolescent issue, disaster management , consumer organic agriculture as per RTE act.

29. Activities for Retention
Achievements
Activities for Retention

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

31. Distribution of Annual Grants
Achievements
Distribution of Annual Grants

32. Annual Grants to Schools
Sl.
No.
Name of Grants
Amount in Rs. 1.
School Grant for Primary (per school)
School Grant for Upper Primary (per school) 2.
Teacher Grant for Primary (Per teacher)
500.00
Teacher Grant for Upper Primary (Per teacher) 3.
Maintenance Grant for schools < 3 rooms (per school)
Maintenance Grant > 3 rooms (per school)

33. School Infrastructure [Civil Works]
Achievements
School Infrastructure [Civil Works]

34. 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 building less school of North District (Nadey PS)
Provided four room school buildings to 52 newly upgraded Jr. High School

35. Civil Works
Achieved Physical progress for the works sanctioned in , (Separate Girls toilets 68, Boundary wall at vulnerable locations 4040 Mts, Electrification 82 schools, HMs rooms, Addl class rooms, New PS East, Upgraded UPs
Financial progress is very poor

36. Bridging Social and Gender Category Gaps
Achievements
Bridging Social and Gender Category Gaps

37. 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

38. Glimpses of Inclusive Education

39. Community Mobilization and Training of SMC & PRIs
Achievements
Community Mobilization and Training of SMC & PRIs

40. Shiksha Ka Haq Abhiyan
Observed “Shiksha ka Haq Abhiyan” on 11th November 2012
Constituted 30 member volunteer RTE Committee in every block
Conducted trainings and meetings of these volunteers

41. Shiksha Ka Haq Abhiyan

42. Training and Meeting of School Management Committee
Constituted School Management Committee as per the guidelines of RTE Act 2009
Trained 2500 members of School Management Committee on the process of Preparation of School Development Plan
Schools are conducting monthly meetings of School Management Committee to encourage community involvement in school management.

43. Financial Status

44. PAB Financial Approval 2012-2013
HEAD
Spill Over
Fresh
Total
SSA
524.52
KGBV
463.65
61.29
524.94
TOTAL
988.16

45. PAB Sanction for Sikkim - 2012-13
Total outlay
Opening Balance
GOI Release
State Share released
13th FC Grant
500.00
100.00

46. Special Request Problems facing by SPO including delay in fund release
Earthquake retrofitting school repairs-no assistance from SSA
Earthquake effected no support to release central share- pressure for state share
Other problems discussed at the time of preliminary appraisal

47. Financial projections for 2013-14
S.No.
Activity
Proposed Outlay for
Total
Phy.
Fin.
1.00
Opening of New Schools 1
0.00
2.00
Residential Sch for specific category of child
3.00
Residential Hostel for specific category of child
464
32.71
4.00
Transport/Escort Facility
5.00
Special Training for mainstreaming of Out-of-School Children
1309
212.80
6.00
Free Text Book
91773
172.96
7.00
Provision of 2 sets of Uniform
367.09
8.00
Teaching Learning Equipment (TLE)
0.20
9.00
New Teachers Salary
887
10.00
Training
8377
150.90 11
Block Resource Centre
318
415.12 12
Academic Support through Cluster Resource Centres
588
619.35
13.00
Computer Aided Education in UPS under Innovation 71
200.00
14.00
Teachers' Grant
7566
37.83
15.00
School Grant
1203
67.13
16.00
Research, Evaluation, Monitoring & Supervision
18.05
17.00
Maintenance Grant
90.23
18.00
Interventions for CWSN
1610
48.30
19.00
Innovation Head up to Rs. 50 lakh per district
295
180.00
20.00
SMC/PRI Training
9312
27.94
21.00
Civil Works Construction
26.55
2069
668.62
22.00
Management
187.75
Total of SSA (District)
217956
220024
23.00
STATE COMPONENT
133.50
STATE SSA TOTAL
24.00
KGBV Financial Provision (give separate costing sheets for different Models)
2423
116.53
487.77
Grand Total (SSA and KGBV)
220379
222447

48. Special requests for consideration
New Primary School in West District of Sikkim
Residential Hostel in North
KGBV: Addl Infrastructure for total students (Class room and Hostel facility)
Regional Language teachers
Teachers to 52 upgraded Ups (52X 3)
Teacher Grant
Special consideration for sufficient and timely release of Central share even if there is any delay in releasing state Share because of the earthquake

49. THANK YOU
THANK YOU