{"id":30243,"date":"2018-10-26T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30243"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:26:32","slug":"cabinet-approves-education-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-education-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves education reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/cabinet-approves-education-reforms\/article23386712.ece\"><strong>Cabinet approves education reforms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar on Thursday announced that the Cabinet has approved a slew of reforms for school education in the country, in what could be considered as the SarvaShiksha Abhiyan-2 project<\/p>\n<p><strong>Integrated Scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schemes to be integrated:<\/strong>The SSA, the Rashtriya MadhyamikShiksha Abhiyan and teacher training would be integrated into a single scheme from Classes 1 to 12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timeline of the scheme:<\/strong> The integrated scheme will be in place from April 1, 2018, to March 31, 2020, with an estimated allocation of Rs. 75,000 crore over the period, a 20% increase over the current allocation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aim of the scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Universalizing access to school education: <\/strong>It aims to support the States in universalising access to school education from pre-nursery to Class 12 across the country<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus on educationally backward:<\/strong> The government would focus on educationally backward districts, disabled students and women.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital Blackboards in the classroom<\/strong>: There would be a shift to digital blackboards from Class 9 to college education in the next five years<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learning based outcome incentive:<\/strong> The government will provide a 20% incentive to the States for a learning-outcome based education.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Early introduction of skill courses:<\/strong> Now functional from Class 9 to Class 12 \u2014 would begin from Class 6 in future. This was aimed at enhancing the employability of students.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interest free education loans:<\/strong> The Centre has also approved an increase in the outlay for making educational loans interest-free for students with modest financial means for studying in universities and colleges charging high fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet approves education reforms What has happened? Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar on Thursday announced that the Cabinet has approved a slew of reforms for school education in the country, in what could be considered as the SarvaShiksha Abhiyan-2 project Integrated Scheme Schemes to be integrated:The SSA, the Rashtriya MadhyamikShiksha Abhiyan and teacher&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-education-reforms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cabinet approves education reforms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913919},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}