NITI Aayog released comprehensive roadmaps and detailed timelines for its initiative Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital in Education (SATH-E) project to introduce system-wide Governance Transformation in school education.
SATH-E Project Details
SATH-E project aims at promoting vocational education, skill development, teacher training and introducing technology in classrooms.
It would also promote data-driven analysis to strengthen academic monitoring across schools in the country.
It aims to transform elementary and secondary school education across these three states.
Its roadmap refers to time-bound, goal-driven exercise that would reach its logical culmination by end of academic year 2020.
It seeks to create role model states for education across country to facilitate qualitative and quantitative transformation of learning outcomes.
It would use innovative, external third party funding and Public- Private- Philanthropic Partnership (PPPP) experimentation.
It would be facilitated by National Steering Group (NSG) , chaired by CEO of NITI Aayog and includes Chief Secretaries of 3 states, which would continuously monitor progress, introduce course-corrections and offer a platform for addressing issues in implementations.
Key Facts on SATH-E Project Roadmaps
The roadmaps to operate between 2018 to 2020.
The roadmaps would lay out detailed interventions to be taken by three participating states- Jharkand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha to become Role Model States in school education.
The roadmaps to present first-of-its-kind, customized, action-oriented programmes, outlining interventions at individual, district and State level.
The road maps were jointly prepared by NITI Aayog, three participating states and knowledge partners of SATH Initiatives, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Piramal Foundation For Education Leadership (PFEL) .
NITI Aayog
NITI Aayog is the premier policy Think Tank of the Union Government, providing both directional and policy inputs.
It is essentially an advisory body that seeks to provide critical directional and strategic inputs across spectrum of key elements of policy to the centre. Prime Minister is ex-officio chairman of NITI Aayog.