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Thiruvananthapuram , March 18

ALL offices of the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) in the State, district and block levels will be networked in a bid to streamline and expedite the project, the Minister for Education, Mr Nalakath Soopy, has said.

The Minister said this while addressing a meeting of the State-level monitoring committee of the SSA held here on Thursday.

The meeting evaluated the progress in the implementation of the project during the years 2002-03 and 2003-04. In the first year, Central assistance to the tune of Rs 22.51 crore was received. This was in addition to the State Government's contribution of Rs 7.50 crore. Out of this, Rs 29.59 crore had been distributed among all the 14 districts of the State.

Sarva Siksha Abhiyan is an integrated national education programme launched with a view to universalising elementary education.

The programme aims to provide eight years of quality elementary education for all children up to the age of 14 years in a mission mode with a thrust on community ownership, disadvantaged group and girls' quality education and alternative modes of education.

All existing schemes on elementary education will converge with this scheme after the Ninth Plan and it will cover all districts in the country.

The participants of the meeting were informed that the grants thus received were utilised to provide infrastructure facilities in schools as well as for training of teachers and for supply of books to children, free of cost. The overall achievement for the year 2002-03 was estimated at 84 per cent. The emphasis has been on making the schools more student-friendly, the Minister said.

During the current financial year, 1.28-lakh teachers in the State have been provided training under the SSA project. Over 10,000 children in inaccessible areas are being taught at different levels in 461 centres.

More than 5,500 physically or intellectually challenged children or those with learning disabilities have been identified in medical camps held for the purpose and learning aids have been distributed to them at a cost of Rs 44.45 lakh.

To aid the evaluation process under the system of grading to be implemented soon in the State, guidelines have been prepared with regard to procedures to be followed for classes one to seven. Audio- visual learning materials for the study of science subjects were also ready for distribution.

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