SSA

                          SSA

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Hindi: सर्व शिक्षा अभियान, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyān, English: Education for All Movement), or SSA, is an Indian Government programme aimed at the universalisation of elementary education "in a time bound manner", as mandated by the 86th Amendment to the Constitution of India making free and compulsory education to children between the ages of 6 to 14 (estimated to be 205 million children in 2001) a fundamental right. The programme was pioneered by former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
  

The major objective objective of the SSA is to provide quality  primary education to all the children between the ages of 6 to 14.

Subsidiary objectives are:

1)  To ensure that all children attend schools  or the alternative schools by the year 2003

2)  To give 5 year primary education  to all the children by the end of 2007

3)  To provide all the children elementary education of 8 years duration by the end of 2010

4) To ensure provision of life - oriented  and quality elementary education to all

5)  To remove all inequalities - relegious, social and gender  - in providing elementary education,  by the year 2010

6)  To completely remove the menace of wastage of students up to 8 'th class