Level of Perception on Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan among Guardians of Uttar Dinajpur District of West Bengal

Majority numbers of people of West Bengal still live in villages and the rural education in West Bengal is of utmost important for them to get reed of poverty. The enrollment of rural students attaining schools is growing, but nearly half of the rural children are still out of the school. Some government schools in rural West Bengal are overly packed with students, leading to a distorted teacher-student ratio (PTR 1: 40). Only parents who can afford expenses of education can send their kids to secondary schools. The foundation to turn India into a strong nation has to be laid down at rural level education so that the quality of education should be maintained. After 86th constitutional amendment in 2002, right to education (RTE) is one of the fundamental rights. This ensures the children of age group 6–14 years for elementary education at the children 14–16 years for secondary education. The present study has been conducted in Uttar Dinajpur, and an under develop district as well as low literacy rate among the other district of West Bengal. To measure the perception about Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan among the guardian's of class IX and X students in term of 18 variables viz. Age of respondent (X₁), Educational qualification (X₂), Occupation (X₃), Size of family (X₄), Number of school going children of family (X₅), Children studying in class IX and X (X₆), Need of private tuition (X₇), Causes behind private tuition (X₈), Extra boost up give by RMSA (X₉), Shortfalls of present secondary education system (X₁₀), remittable measures of secondary education (X₁₁), Social awareness (X₁₂), Social involvement (X₁₃), Improvement through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (X₁₄), Achievement of UEE (X₁₅), Role of Mid-day meal (X₁₆), Initiation of MDM for Secondary level (X₁₇), and Options to Successful execution of MDM (X₁₈) were found to bear substantial impact on the level of perception on RMSA (Y) of the guardian of students. This study is to construct a scientific, effective and very operational statistical model to analyses the roles, responsibilities and functions of parents in the educational process of their children with the Correlation Coefficient, Multiple and Step down Regression Analysis. This study confirms that the assessment model has one of the good diagnostic prescriptions.