New central scheme PM SHRI
Context
Prime Minister announced PM SHRI Schools (PM Schools for Rising India).
What is the PM-SHRI scheme?
- PM SHRI Schools (PM Schools for Rising India) is a new centrally sponsored scheme.
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A centrally sponsored scheme is one where the cost of implementation is likely to split in the 60:40 ratio among the Union government and the states/Union Territories. |
- Under it, as many as 14,500 schools across states and Union Territories will be redeveloped to reflect the key features of the NEP, 2020.
- There are exemplary schools like Navodaya Vidyalayas, Kendriya Vidyalayas, the PM SHRI will act as “NEP labs”.
NEP in school education
- The NEP envisages a curricular structure and teaching style divided into various stages – foundational, preparatory, middle and secondary.
- The foundational years (pre-school and grades I, II) will involve play-based learning.
- At the preparatory level (III-V), light textbooks are to be introduced along with some formal classroom teaching.
- Subject teachers are to be introduced at the middle level (VI-VIII).
- Secondary stage (IX-XII) will be multidisciplinary in nature with no hard separation between arts and sciences or other disciplines.
