Effectiveness of Sarva Shiksha Mission in the Dooars region of Indian subcontinent: an assessment from teachers’ component

The teacher is the dynamic force of the educational system. Education without a teacher is just like a body without soul, skeleton without flesh and blood, a shadow without substance. As social engineers, the teachers can socialize and humanize the young by their man-like qualities. This study conducted in Jalpaiguri, a Sarva Shiksha Mission (SSM) district of West Bengal since 2002 to evaluate and assess the level of achievement earned by the Elementary Teachers from the SSM -its objective and purposes methods and approaches. While the level of Effectiveness of SSM (Y) had been the dependent/predictor character (Y), the contributory factors had been Age (X₁), Education of teachers (X₂), Training Experience (X₃), Year of Experience (X₄), Engagement in other activity (X₅), Family Income (X₆), Social Participation (X₇), Interaction with Head Teacher (X₈), Interaction with School Inspectors (X₉), Interaction with SSM Personnel (X₁₀), Organizational Interfacing (X₁₁), Involvement in SSM actions (X₁₂), Value Judgement (X₁₃), Response about SSM activities (X₁₄), Use of TL Materials (X₁₅), Exposures to Media (X₁₆), Opinion about present education system (X₁₇), and Challenges to SSM (X₁₈). The statistical analysis illustrated that while the variables: like (1) Education of teachers (X₂), Social Participation (X₇), Interaction with Head Teacher (X₈), Use of TL Materials (X₁₅) had wielded a substantive effect on the determining level of Effectiveness of SSM (Y) and (2) variables: like Age (X₁), Education of teachers (X₂), Year of Experience (X₄), Engagement in other activity (X₅), Family Income (X₆), Social Participation (X₇), Interaction with Head Teacher (X₈), and Challenges to SSM (X₁₈) have been found to exercise significant regressional effect on the level of Effectiveness of SSM (Y).