SATH-E
PROJECT - REPORTS AND INDICES
News:
More than 50 percent of
primary schools across many states have enrolment less than 60: NITI Aayog
report
What's
in the news?
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The Sustainable Action for Transforming
Human capital - Education (Project SATH-E) initiated by the NITI Aayog in 2017
aims at making a wide transformation with a focus on improving quality
education.
Key
takeaways:
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Of the 16 states that showed interest in
the proposal made by NITI Aayog, 3 were selected for the project - Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.
SATH-E:
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It is an initiative based on formal
agreements with the States and will be funded through a cost-sharing mechanism
between NITI Aayog and the participating states.
Nodal
Authority
- NITI
Aayog
Governance:
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The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and
Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership (PFEL) were chosen as knowledge
partners for the project facilitating review, data collection and
implementation.
Objectives:
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It aims to transform elementary and secondary school education.
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It aims to ensure quality school education
and promote socially inclusive, regionally balanced, and sustainable education
growth in collaboration with state governments.
Features:
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SATH-E roadmap refers to a time-bound, goal-driven exercise that
will reach its logical culmination by the end of the academic year 2020.
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It envisages the entire governmental
school education system responsive, aspirational and transformational for every
child.
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SATH-E aims to create role model States for education and mainstream ‘islands of
excellence’ across the country to facilitate qualitative and quantitative
transformation of learning outcomes.