-Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12.
-Devolop minimum standards of educational attainment in elementary school, and by regular testing monitor effectiveness of education to ensure quality.
-Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or more to 85%.
-Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage points.
-Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 16% by the end of the 11th Plan.
EDUCATION IN UNION BUDGET 2007-08-
- Education allocation hiked by 34.2% to Rs. 32,352 crore.
-Increase in allocation of funds for school education by 35% from Rs. 17,133 crore to Rs. 23,132 crore out of which Rs. 10,671 crore allocated for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
-Increase in allocation of funds from Rs. 162 crore to Rs. 450 crore for strenghening teachers training institutions by appointment of 200,000 more teachers and construction of 500,000 more classrooms.
-Allocation of Rs. 7,324 crore for providing Mid-day Meal Scheme.
-Mid-day Meal Scheme cover children in upper primary classes in 3,427 educationally backward blocks.
-Increase in the transfer to Prarambhik Shiksha Kosh from Rs.8,746 crore to Rs. 10,393 crore.
-Increase in the provision for secondary education from Rs. 1,837 to Rs.3,794.
-Introduction of National Means-Cum Merit Scholarship Scheme selection for which to be made from among students who have passed class VIII. Each student to be given Rs.6,000 per year. 1000,000 scholarships to be awarded every year, creation of a corpus fund of Rs.750 crore this which must undergo annual increased over the next 3 years.
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