Government will strive to get 100% enrolment in IX, Xth classes: Delhi CM

The Delhi cabinet today decided to implement centrally-sponsored Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) under which the city government will strive to achieve 100% enrolment in ninth and tenth classes in secondary schools within next five years.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, after the Cabinet meeting, said although RMSA aims to achieve a General Enrolment Ratio (GER) of 75 per cent in classes IX and X in the country, the GER for Delhi is already 83 for class-IX and her government will now strive hard to make it 100%.

"The city government will strive hard to achieve cent per cent GER by the end of 11th Five Year Plan to become a role model for other states and Union territories," Dikshit said.

Apart from achieving higher GER, the RMSA also aims to establish a secondary school within a reasonable distance of every habitation and improve the quality of education imparted at the secondary level.

The Centre plans to invest a whopping Rs 20,000 crore during the 11th Plan to implement the scheme. After Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, the RMSA is considered to be a major programme for secondary education.

The GER at national level as per data available for 2005-06 is 52.26%.

The Cabinet has also given its nod for setting up of an institutional framework to implement RMSA in the national capital. Officials said a state mission on RMSA will be constituted under the chairmanship of Dikshit.