The Project Approval Board (PAB) of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) has cleared a budget of Rs 921.83 Crore for SSA in Uttarakhand. The decision in this regard was taken in a meeting of PAB at New Delhi on Thursday. The meeting for deciding the annual work plan and budget under SSA was chaired by the Secretary Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
In the approved budget for Uttarakhand a sum of Rs 309.40 Crore is kept for salary of teachers, Rs 19 Crore for repair works, Rs 10.54 Crore for free distribution of textbooks and Rs 39.50 Crore for reimbursement of students admitted under Right to Education (RTE) in the private schools (25 percent of the seats in class I of the private schools are reserved for the children of poor parents). Similarly a provision of Rs 25.64 Crore is made for uniform of students, Rs 1.14 Crores for residential schools, Rs 6.09 Crore for Kasturba Gandhi girl schools, Rs 6.50 Crore for computer learning programmes and Rs 4.55 crore for community participation.
In the meeting the state was represented by Additional Chief Secretary School education Dr Ranvir Singh, Additional Secretary and state Project Director SSA Deependra Kumar Chaudhary, Director Secondary education Rakesh Kunwar, Director Primary education and academic research training Seema Jaunsari, Additional Project Director SSA Dr Mukul Kumar Sati and finance controller Amita Joshi.