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Middle & Higher Education RUSA, RMSA, MUSK
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
- Providing a secondary school within a reasonable distance (5 - 7 km) of habitation.
- To ensure 100% GER, and universal retention by 2020, PTR 30: 1.
- To improve quality, removing gender, socio-economic and disability barriers.
- Infra: Additional classrooms, Laboratories, Toilet blocks, Residential Hostels for Teachers in remote areas etc.
- Focus on vulnerable groups: Preference to areas with concentration of SC/ST/Minority for opening of schools etc.
Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)
Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)
- Transformative reforms in State Higher Education
- To create an enabling atmosphere in higher educational institutions (HEIs) for research and innovations.
- To improve the GER (Gross Enrolment Ratio) to 30% by 2020.
- To reduce regional imbalances, social and gender gaps.
- Priority to Aspirational Districts, identified by the NITI Aayog.
- It is a centrally sponsored flagship scheme.
- Central funding: norm based and outcome dependent.
- Planning and monitoring at the state level
- Promoting autonomy in State Universities and improving governance.
Madhyamik and Uchchtar Shiksha Kosh (MUSK)
Madhyamik and Uchchtar Shiksha Kosh (MUSK)
- A fund for schemes of secondary and higher education.
- It would be maintained as a Reserve Fund in non-interest bearing section of the Public Accounts of India.
- Funding: All proceeds of Secondary and Higher Education Cess.
- 1% cess on central taxes.
- Expenditure on schemes: initially from the gross budgetary support (GBS) ; from the MUSK only after the GBS is exhausted.
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