Samagra Shiksha - Strengthening of District Administration - Method of appointing of Additional Project Co-ordinator, Samagra Shiksha – Guidelines framed

the chairmanship of Chief Secretary to Government for selection of suitable Government 

officers for posting as Project Officers, (ITDA), Project Directors, DRDA / DWMA, 

PD(Urban) MEPMA etc. and PO, RVM(SSA) and framed comprehensive guidelines for 

considerations of certain category of officers for the said posts.

2. In the reference 2nd read above, the Commissioner of School Education, AP and the 

State Project Director, SSA, AP have stated that the Project Officers, SSA do not have the 

required administrative set up at the divisional and Mandal Level where they have to get 

work done in association with the Mandal Educational Officers etc., who report to the 

District Educational Officer. As such, there has to be coordination between the Project 

Officers, SSA and Dy. Educational Officers/ Mandal Educational Officers and District 

Educational Officers. The Project Officers (SSA) are independently reporting to the 

District Collector & Chairman of SSA without knowledge of the District Educational Officer 

& Ex-Officio District Project Coordinator. Due to the parallel activities taken up by the 

District Educational Officer and the Project Officers (SSA), there are several practical 

gaps at the field level resulting in poor supervision of academic and administrative 

activities of schools at field level. This is also creating dual reporting system and issue of 

conflicting directions and varying expectations. Further, initiating disciplinary action 

against the officers engaged from other departments for misappropriation or 

mismanagement is also difficult issue. Engaging the services of officers from Education 

department as Project Officers (SSA) who shall report to District Educational Officer and 

Ex-officio District Project Coordinator (SSA) will ensure single line administration and 

optimum utilization of available resources. Therefore they have requested to review the 

orders issued in the reference 1st read above and discontinue the existing system duly 

amending the provisions with regard to appointment of PO (SSA) for implementing 

Samagra Shiksha Programme.

3. Government after careful examination of the matter have observed that the 

Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India has completely revamped the SSA to provide holistic 

support to Primary and Secondary Education. The Union Budget, 2018-19, has proposed 

to treat school education holistically without segmentation from pre-nursery to Class XII. 

Samagra Shiksha - an overarching programme for the school education sector extending 

from pre-school to class XII has been, therefore, prepared with the broader goal of 

improving school effectiveness measured in terms of equal opportunities for schooling 

and equitable learning outcomes. It subsumes the three schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 

(SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education 

(TE). Accordingly the same spirit needs to percolate to the State and District level so that 

the synergistic working of Commissioner of School Education and Samagra Shiksha Society 

will provide maximum impetus to the functioning of the School Education ecosystem. 

Therefore Government decided to revamp the current system, which is in total 

disarray and hereby order to withdraw the post of Project Officer, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 

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(Rajiv Vidhya Mission) from the purview of orders issued in the reference 1st read above 

and framed guidelines as follows:

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