Eleventh Five Year Plan

Education 17universalize access to secondary education; (ii) ensuregood quality secondary education with focus onScience, Mathematics, and English; and (iii) aimtowards major reduction in gender, social, and regionalgaps in enrolments, dropouts, and school retention.The norm will be to provide a secondary schoolwithin 5 km and a higher secondary school within7–8 km of every habitation. The GER in secondaryeducation is targeted to increase from 52% in 2004–05 to 75% by 2011–12 and the combined secondaryand senior secondary GER from 40% to 65% in thesame period.Scheme for Universal Access and Qualityat the Secondary Stage (SUCCESS)1.2.17 The erstwhile schemes of ICT in schools,girls child incentive, IEDC, VE, etc. will be subsumedunder a new umbrella CSS named SUCCESS. Theprincipal objectives of SUCCESS will be (i) universalizingaccess with major reduction in gender, social,and regional gaps in enrolment, dropout, andretention and (ii) improving quality with focuson Science and Maths. Specific interventions willinclude:• Setting up 6000 high quality Model Schools atblock level to serve as benchmark for excellence insecondary schooling.• Upgrading 15000 existing primary schools tosecondary schools.• Increasing the intake capacity of about 44000existing secondary schools.• Strengthening infrastructure in existing schoolswith 3.43 lakh additional classrooms and additional5.14 lakh teachers.• Encouraging establishment of good quality schoolsin deficient areas in both public and more in PPPmode.• Expansion of KVs and NVs in underserved areas.• 100% trained teachers in all schools and reachingPTR of 25:1 by 2011–12.• Revamped ICT in secondary and higher secondaryschools.1.2.18 The 6000 Model Schools will be set up in twodistinct streams. Under both the streams, land will beprovided by the State/UTs free of cost. The first streamwill consist of 3500 public funded schools (3000 inKVs and 500 in NVs template) to be launched inthe EBBs which have a significant SC, ST, OBC, andMinority population. The second stream of about2500 schools would be set up through PPP in otherblocks with emphasis on geographical, demographic,gender, and social equity. These schools will be managedand run by involving corporates, philanthropicfoundations, endowments, educational trusts, andreputed private providers.Substantial Improvement in Quality ofSecondary Education1.2.19 The other measures for improving quality insecondary education will include adoption of NCF2005, adoption of NET/SET of NCERT/CBSE/SCERT/State Boards to enable recruitment of quality teachingfaculty; long pending institutional reforms in schoolmanagement, and ensuring accountability at alllevels.Revamped ICT in Schools1.2.20 There has been a significant impact of ICT inthe delivery of educational services across the world.ICT infrastructure will be established at governmentand government-aided secondary and senior secondaryschools during the Eleventh Plan period. There areabout 1.4 lakh such schools out of which 1.08 lakh aregovernment and government-aided schools. About28000 schools are in far flung areas. About 80000schools are proposed to be connected on Internetthrough terrestrial/wireless broadband mode and theremaining 28000 schools will be provided Internetconnectivity through broadband Very Small ApertureTerminals. The latter mode of connectivity (satellite)has been proposed as the terrestrial infrastructure inthe far flung and Schedule V regions is quite weak andservice providers have no immediate plans to extendthe broadband infrastructure in these regions. UPSwith battery backups and solar power panels for uninterruptedpower supply will also be provided as perrequirements.1.2.21 An amount of Rs 5000 crore is being providedduring the Eleventh Plan for providing ICT infrastructurein schools. Under this programme, each schoolwill be provided with ICT infrastructure consisting of