Students’ and ‘Teachers’ Holistic Advancement through Quality Education (SARTHAQ)
The Department of School Education and Literacy has developed an indicative and suggestive NEP Implementation Plan for School Education, ‘Students’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement through Quality Education (SARTHAQ),' to help States and UTs achieve the goals and objectives of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
The proposal considers the concurrent nature of education while remaining true to the federalist character. States and UTs have the ability to adapt this strategy to their specific needs and requirements by localising it and modifying it as needed.
This implementation plan lays out the road map and strategy for implementing NEP 2020 over the next ten years, which is critical for a smooth and effective rollout.
Following outcomes have been envisaged for entire education system afterimplementation of SARTHAQ:
- New National and State Curriculum Frameworks for School Education , Early Childhood Care and Education, Teacher Education and Adult Education will be developed encompassing the spirit of NEP and will pave way for curriculum reforms
- Increase in Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), Net Enrolment Ratio (NER), transition rate and retention rate at all levels and reduction in drop outs and out of school children.
- Access to quality ECCE and Universal Acquisition of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy by Grade 3.
- Improvement in Learning Outcomes at all stages with emphasis on teaching and learning through mother tongue/local/regional languages in the early years.
- Integration of vocational education, sports, arts, knowledge of India, 21st century skills, values of citizenship, awareness of environment conservation, etc. in the curriculum at all stages.
- Introduction of Experiential learning at all stages and adoption of innovative pedagogies by teachers in classroom transaction.
- Reforms in Board exams and various entrance tests.
- Development of high quality and diversified teaching-learning material.
- Availability of text books in Regional/local/home language.
- Improvement in quality of Teacher Education Programmes.
- Improvement in quality of newly recruited teachers and capacity building through Continuous Professional Development.
- Safe, Secure, inclusive and conducive learning environment for students and teachers.
- Improvement in infrastructure facilities including barrier free access and sharing of resources among schools.
- Uniform standards in learning outcomes and governance across public and private schools through setting-up of an online, transparent public disclosure system through establishment of SSSA in states.
- Integration of technology in educational planning and governance and availability of ICT and quality e-content in classrooms.
