The Union cabinet approved the PM Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme to turn existing government schools into model schools for implementation of the National Education Policy, 2022.
The scheme will be implemented as a Centrally sponsored scheme, but the schools will be selected only if the State Government agreed to implement the NEP.
The scheme has been announced at a time when some states continue to oppose the NEP for imposing a centralised education system on the entire country when education is a state subject as well as enforcing the three language policy under which students will learn three languages out of which two have to be native to India.
The PM SHRI scheme provides a “School Quality Assessment Framework” which will be developed for measuring key performance indicators for carrying out quality evaluation of schools from the current academic year.
The quality parameters that will be evaluated once a school is selected for the scheme will include implementation of NEP 2020, students rigistry for tracking enrolment and learning progress, improvement in learning outcomes of each student to achieve levels above State and National average.
