NORMS FOR INTERVENTIONS UNDER SSA   

INTERVENTION  NORM  

1.Teacher

• One teacher for every 40 children in Primary and upper primary

• At least two teachers in a Primary school

•   One teacher for every class in the upper primary

2.School / Alternative schooling facility

•   Within  one Kilometre of every habitation

• Provision for opening of new schools as per State norms or for setting up EGS like schools in unserved habitations.

3.Upper Primary schools/ Sector

• As per requirement based on the number of children completing primary education, up to a ceiling of one upper primary school/section for every two primary schools

4.Classrooms

• A room for every teacher in Primary & upper Primary, with the provision that there would be two class rooms with verandah to every Primary school with at least two teachers.

• A room for Head-Master in upper Primary school/section

5.Free textbooks

• To all girls/SC/ST children at primary & upper primary level within an upper ceiling of Rs. 150/- per child

• State to continue to fund free textbooks being currently provided from the State Plans.

6.Civil works

• Ceiling of 33% of SSA programme funds.

• For improvement of school facilities, BRC/CRC construction.

• CRCs could also be used as an additional room.

• No expenditure to be incurred on construction of office buildings

• Districts to prepare infrastructure Plans.

7.Maintenance and repair  of school buildings

• Only through school management committees/VECs

• Upto Rs. 5000 per year as per specific proposal by the school committee.

• Must involve elements of community contribution

8. Upgradation  of  EGS to regular school / setting up of new Primary school as per State 

    norm

• Provision for TLE @ Rs 10,000/- per school

• TLE as per local context and need

• Involvement of teachers and parents necessary in TLE selection and procurement

• VEC/ school-village level appropriate body to decide on best mode of procurement

• Requirement of successful running of EGS centre for two years before it is considered for upgradation.

• Provision for teacher & classrooms.

9.TLE for upper-primary

• @ Rs 50,000 per school for uncovered schools.

• As per local specific requirement to be determined by the teachers/ school committee

• School committee to decide on best mode of procurement, in consultation with teachers

• School Committee may recommend district level procurement if there are advantages of scale.

10.Schools grant

• Rs. 2000/- per year per  primary/upper primary school for  replacement of non functional school equipment

• Transparency in utilisation

• To be spent only by VEC/SMC

11.Teacher grant

• Rs 500 per teacher per year in primary and upper primary

• Transparency in utilisation

12.Teacher training

• Provision of 20 days In-service course for all teachers each year, 60 days refresher course for untrained teachers already employed as teachers, and 30 days orientation for freshly trained recruits @ Rs. 70/- per day

• Unit cost is indicative; would be lower in non residential training programmes

• Includes all training cost

• Assessment of capacities for effective training during appraisal will determine extent of coverage.

• Support for SCERT/DIET under existing Teacher Education Scheme

13.State Institute of Educational Management and Training (SIEMAT)

•  One time assistance up to Rs. 3 crore

• States have to agree to sustain

•  Selection criteria for faculty to be rigorous

14.Training of community leaders

• For a maximum of 8 persons in a village for 2 days in a year - preferably women

• @ Rs. 30/- per day

 15.Provision for disabled children

• Upto Rs. 1200/- per child for integration of disabled children, as per specific proposal, per year

• District Plan for children with special needs will be formulated within the Rs. 1200 per child norm

•  Involvement of resource institutions to be encouraged

 16.Research, Evaluation, supervision and monitoring

• Upto Rs. 1500 per school per year

• Partnership with research and resource institutions, pool of resource teams with State specific focus

• Priority to development of capacities for appraisal and supervision through resource/research institutions and on an effective EMIS

• Provision for regular school mapping/micro planning for up dating of household data

• By creating pool of resource persons, providing travel grant and honorarium for monitoring, generation of community-based data, research studies, cost of assessment and appraisal terms & their field activities, classroom observation by resource persons

• Funds to be spent at national, state, district, sub district, school level out of the overall per school allocation.

• Rs. 100 per school per year to be spent at national level

• Expenditure at State/district/BRC/CRC/ School level to be decided by State/UT, This would include expenditure on appraisal, supervision, MIS, classroom observation, etc. Support to SCERT over and above the provision under the Teacher Education scheme may also be provided. 

• Involvement of resource institutions willing to undertake state specific responsibilities

 17.Management Cost

• Not to exceed 6% of the budget of a district plan

• To include expenditure on office expenses, hiring of experts at various levels after assessment of existing manpower, POL, etc.;

• Priority to experts in MIS, community planning processes, civil works, gender, etc. depending on capacity available in a particular district

• Management costs should be used to develop effective teams at State/ District/Block/Cluster levels

• Identification of personnel for BRC/CRC should be a priority in the pre-project phase itself so that a team is available for the intensive process based planning.

18. Innovative activity for girls' education, early childhood care & education, interventions for children belonging to SC/ST community, computer education specially for upper primary level

• Upto to Rs. 15 lakh for each innovative project and Rs. 50 lakh for a district per year will apply for SSA

• ECCE and girls education interventions to have unit costs already approved under other existing schemes.

 19. Block Resource Centres/ Cluster Resource Centres

• BRC/CRC to be located in school campus as far as possible.

• Rs. 6 lakh ceiling for BRC building construction wherever required

• Rs. 2 lakh for CRC construction wherever required - should be used as an additional classroom in schools.

• Total cost of non-school (BRC and CRC) construction in any district should not exceed 5% of the overall projected expenditure under the programme in any year.

• Deployment of up to 20 teacher in a block with more than 100 schools; 10 teachers in smaller Blocks in BRCs/CRCs.

• Provision of furniture, etc. @ Rs. 1 lakh for a BRC and Rs. 10,000 for a CRC

• Contingency grant of Rs. 12,500 for a BRC and Rs. 2500 for a  CRC, per year

• Identification of BRC/CRC personnel after intensive selection process in the preparatory phase itself.

20.Interventions for out of school children

• As per norms already approved under Education Guarantee Scheme & Alternative and Innovative Education, providing for the following kind of interventions

• Setting up Education Guarantee Centres in unserved habitations

• Setting up other alternative schooling models

• Bridge Courses, remedial courses, Back-to-School Camps with a focus on mainstreaming out of school children into regular schools.

21.Preparatory activities for microplanning, household surveys, studies, community mobilization, school-based activities, office equipment, training and orientation at all levels, etc.

• As per specific proposal of a district, duly recommended by the State. Urban areas, within a district or metropolitan cities may be treated as a separate unit for planning as required.