Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) Budget Briefs 2015-16

The Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) is the Government of India's (GOI) flagship secondary education programme. The scheme was launched in March 2009 to augment access to and improve the quality of secondary education. In FY 2013-14, 4 existing schemes were subsumed by RMSA to create RMSA (Integrated). These are: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in school; Girls' hostel; Inclusive Education for Disabled at Secondary Stage (IEDSS) and Vocational Education (VE) This brief uses government data to analyse RMSA performance on: a) Overall trends in allocations, releases and expenditures b) State-wise comparisons of performance and c) Coverage and outputs