opepa.odisha.gov.in KSBV Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme : Primary Education Programme Authority

Organisation : Odisha Primary Education Programme Authority
Scheme Name : Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya KSBV
Applicable States/ UTs : Odisha
Website : https://osepa.odisha.gov.in/

OPEPA Odisha KSBV

It is a scheme launched in July 2004, for setting up residential schools at upper primary level for girls belonging predominantly to the SC, ST, OBC and minority communities.

Related : OPEPA Odisha NPEGEL National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level : www.statusin.in/38547.html

The scheme is being implemented in educationally backward blocks of the country where the female rural literacy is below the national average and gender gap in literacy is above the national average.

KGBVs will be set up in those EBBs that do not have residential schools for elementary education of girls under any other scheme of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Tribal Affair.

The scheme provides for a minimum reservation of 75% of the seats for girls belonging to SC, ST, OBC or minority communities and priority for the remaining 25%, is accorded to girls from families below poverty line.

Objectives

** To ensure access to the disadvantaged girls
** To provide quality of education to all girls
** To make school environment girl child friendly

Scope/ Coverage of the Scheme

The scheme was applicable since inception in 2004, in Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) where the rural female literacy is below the national average (46.13%: Census 2001) and gender gap in literacy is more than the national average (21.59%: Census 2001).

Among these blocks, schools may be set up in areas with :
** concentration of tribal population, with low female literacy and/or a large number of girls out of school;
** concentration of SC, OBC and minority populations, with low female literacy and/or a large number of girls out of school;
** areas with low female literacy; or
** areas with a large number of small, scattered habitations that do not qualify for a school

The criteria of eligible blocks has been revised with effect from 1st April, 2008 to include the following :
** An additional 316 Educationally backward blocks with rural female literacy below 30%; and
** 94 Towns/cities having minority concentration (as per the list identified by Ministry of Minority Affairs) with female literacy rate below the national average (53.67%: Census 2001).

Target Beneficiaries

** Out of school girls who are unable to complete Upper Primary education in difficult area.
** Adolescent girls who are unable to go regular school (upper primary level).
** Younger girls of migratory population in difficult areas / scattered habitation that do not qualify for a school.
** Priority of 75% enrolment to girls from SC/ST/OBC and minorities communities and 25% to girls from BPL.

Strategy & Component

** To set up residential schools where minimum of 50 girls from SC/ST and minorities available to study. The number can be more than 50 depending on the number of eligible girls.

** To provide necessary infrastructure for these schools
** To prepare and procure TLM and aids for the schools.
** To put in place appropriate system to provide necessary academic, evaluation and monitoring support.
** To motivate and prepare girls and their families to send them to Residential Schools.