Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)

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I Inactive

Key Information

This scheme was launched in March, 2009 to enhance access to secondary education and to improve its quality. The implementation of the scheme started from 2009-10. It envisions an enrolment rate of 75% from 52.26% in 2005-06 at secondary stage of implementation of the scheme and focuses on providing a secondary school within a reasonable distance of any habitation. The other objectives include improving quality of education imparted at secondary level through making all secondary schools conform to prescribed norms, removing gender, socio-economic and disability barriers, providing universal access to secondary level education by 2017, i.e., by the end of 12th Five Year Plan and achieving universal retention by 2020. Some important equity interventions provided in the scheme are: more female teachers in schools and separate toilet blocks for girls.

Lead Implementing Government(s)

India

Location(s)

South Asia

India

Activity URL

https://www.education.gov.in/rmsa

Government Affiliation

Unknown

Years

2009 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Department of School Education and Literacy

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School quality

Skills

  • Other academic performance-related

Cross-cutting areas

  • Digital literacy
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Educational Technology

  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms