RASHTRIYA MADHYAMIK SHIKSHA ABHIYAAN IN KULLU DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH: A CASE STUDY

This study is an attempt to understand the status of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyaan in Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh. The recently lunched centrally sponsored scheme for secondary educations, Raashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), offers a strategic opportunity to improve access and equity, enhance quality, accountability and ability to measure learning outcomes, and examinations across states. The RMSA scheme is for universalisation of access to and improvement of quality at the secondary and higher secondary stage. With a view to providing relevant and necessary input for enhancing the understanding of the educational administrators, field functionaries and teachers, a need was felt by the researcher to examine various aspect of quality education in relation to RMSA specifically in District Kullu The prime goal of RMSA is universalisation of secondary education. In order to meet the challenge of universalisation of secondary education (USE), there is a need for a paradigm shift in the conceptual design of secondary education. In this paper efforts have been made to study the status of the strategies adopted by the district and state of Himachal Pradesh to achieve the target of universal access, equality and social justice, relevance and development and structural and curricular aspects. In this paper researcher also made an attempt to study the perception of teacher educators working in DIETS about the RMSA in-service training programme who have been made responsible for the implementation of RMSA activities in the district. This paper will be helpful for many researcher to understand the status of various interventions under RMSA viz. ICT, NSQF and IEDSS and Quality of secondary education.