Education Minister reviews fund utilisation under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
- Context:Union Education Minister held a detailed review meeting on fund release and utilisation under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, with a focus on making Samagra Shiksha 3.0 more efficient, transparent and outcome-oriented.
- Union Minister said that an integrated approach through the convergence of key schemes, including Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), PM-POSHAN (Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman), ULLAS (Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in Society), PM-SHRI (Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India) and other flagship programmes, will be undertaken from this year.
About Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
- Samagra Shiksha is an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class 12.
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- Period:1st April 2021 to 31st March, 2026.
- The scheme has been prepared with the broader goal of improving school effectiveness measured in terms of equal opportunities for schooling and equitable learning outcomes.
- It subsumes the three Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE) and was launched in 2018.
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- The scheme covers 1.16 million schools, over 156 million students and 5.7 million Teachers of Govt. and Aided schools
- The major objectives of the Scheme are
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- Provision of quality education and enhancing learning outcomes of students;
- Bridging Social and Gender Gaps in School Education;
- Ensuring equity and inclusion at all levels of school education;
- Support States in implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009.
Salient Features:
- It aims to ensure that all children have access to quality education with an equitable and inclusive classroom environment.
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- The main emphasis of the Scheme is on improving quality of school education by focussing on the two T’s – Teacher and Technology.
- The fund sharing pattern for the scheme between Centre and States
- 90:10 for North-Eastern States
- 60:40 for all other States and Union Territories with Legislature
- 100% centrally sponsored for Union Territories without Legislature.
- The revised Samagra Shiksha Scheme includes new measures based on the recommendations of NEP 2020 to improve school education and make learning more accessible, inclusive, and effective.
Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme
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- Context:Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister has said that the Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme is delivering encouraging results.
- Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister said that Thiruvananthapuram-based semiconductor start-up Netrasemi has developed the country’s first Edge AI System-on-Chip, NETRA A2000, using an advanced 12-nanometre technology node.
Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme
- DLI Scheme was launched in December 2021 as part of the India Semiconductor Mission
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- It aims to offer financial incentives as well as design infrastructure support across various stages of development and deployment of semiconductor design.
- Target Segments: Semiconductor design for Integrated Circuits (ICs), Chipsets, System on Chips (SoCs), Systems & IP Cores and semiconductor-linked design.
- Nodal agency: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), operating under MeitY.
- Aim: To nurture at least 20 domestic companies involved in semiconductor design and facilitate them to achieve turnover of more than Rs.1500 Crore in 5 years.
