VISION AND MISSION OF SSA MANIPUR

          The Govt. of Manipur launched the centrally sponsored scheme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) with a new vision as a mission mode in all the 9 districts of Manipur viz. Bishnupur, Chandel, Churachandpur, Imphal East, Imphal West, Senapati, Tamenglong, Thoubal and Ukhrul. Unlike in other States implementation of programme under SSA was started in Manipur in the year 2004-05 with the active participation of people at the grassroot level.

            Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Manipur is a multifaceted programme, which seeks to ensure the enrolment of all children in the age group of 6-14 in schools or Alternative Schools, retaining them and ensuring comparable elementary quality education. SSA is conceived as an essential national programme to achieve Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) by 2010 by creating a sustainable and decentralized educational planning and management system, and invoking community participation in the whole process of the programme. This will be a major experiment of its kind where decentralization and community participation are being put together into practice on a large scale.

            SSA has two aspects-

i)          It provides a wide convergent framework for implementation of Elementary Education schemes and

ii)         It is a programme with budget provision for the strengthening of vital areas to achieve  UEE.