Eleventh Five Year Plan

10 Eleventh Five Year Plan• Give special focus on Maths, Science, andEnglish (core) where students tend to be weakand universally introduce English in Class IIIonwards.• Implement a Common Syllabi, Curriculum, andPedagogy and carry out the consequent textbookrevisions.• Support more quality-related activities and improveinteractive classroom transaction.• Address fully all teacher-related issues—vacancies,absenteeism, non-teaching assignments, and fixaccountability for learning outcomes of pupils.• Achieve 100% training for teachers includingpara-teachers. Revise PTR to 30:1 from 40:1.• Recruit additional teachers to deal with singleteacher schools and multi-grade teaching withmandatory two-third new teachers to be female forprimary classes.• National Eligibility Test (NET)/State Eligibility Test(SET) for teacher recruitment by NCERT/StateCouncil for Educational Research and Training(SCERT)/CBSE/State Boards to enable decentralizedrecruitment of high-quality teaching faculty atdistrict/block levels.• Make District Institutes of Education and Training(DIETs)/SCERTs fully functional and organicallylinked with BRC/CRC and NCERT.• Enhance learning levels by at least 50% over baselineestimates (2005–06 District Information System forEducation [DISE]).• ‘Improved Quality’ to be defined in operationalterms through clearly identified outcome indicators,viz. learning levels of students, teacher competence,classroom processes, teaching learningmaterials, etc.• The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005and the syllabi prepared by NCERT to be the guidingdocuments for States for revising their curricula/syllabi with SCERTs playing a more active role inensuring common standard.• Introduce monetary and non-monetary incentivesfor recognizing good teachers with block/districtand State awards.Sharing of SSA Expenditure andReprioritization of SSA Components1.1.52 The approved SSA programme provided foran 85:15 sharing between Centre and the States till theend of the Ninth Plan period, 75:25 sharing duringthe Tenth Plan period, and 50:50 thereafter. In viewof persistent demand from the States and the urgencyin filling up the infrastructure gap in the educationallyfragile States, the funding pattern between Centreand States/UTs for SSA Phase II has been modifiedto 65:35 for the first two years of the Eleventh Plan,60:40 for the third year, 55:45 for the fourth year, and50:50 thereafter. The special dispensation for NE Statesduring 2005–06 and 2006–07 will continue for theEleventh Plan whereby each of the NE States contributesonly 10% of the approved outlay as State share.1.1.53 The restructuring of SSA will include ensuringthat all teachers, including para teachers, are trained,the norms for civil works are the same throughout aState, there is 1 CRC for every 10 schools, 10 CRCs perBRC, and 5 resource teachers per block, there is nosingle teacher school and no multi-grade teaching.The curricula/syllabi will be revised as per the NCFand the NCERT guidelines.Special Interventions for theDisadvantaged Groups1.1.54 Young learners from socially marginalizedsections experience education in a distinctly differentform than those who occupy mainstream positions ofpower and privilege. 7 They face overt and covert formsof rejection in schooling. 8 The Eleventh Plan will layspecial focus on disadvantaged groups and educationallybackward areas. This focus will include not onlyhigher resource allocation but also capacity buildingfor preparation and implementation of strategies basedon identified needs, more intensive monitoring andsupervision, and tracking of progress. Specific measureswill include:• Top priority in pre-primary schooling to habitationsof marginalized sections.7Sunil Batra (2006), Equity in Education in India: A distant Dream or an Elusive Reality? National Seminar on UniversalisingElementary Education in India, IHD, New Delhi.8K Kumar (1983), Educational Experience of Scheduled Castes and Tribes, EPW, 18, pp. 328–47.