1Assistant Professor, Malda Women's College & Scholar, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India
2Supervisor & Faculty, Department of Adult, Continuing Education & Extension, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India (Principal & Corresponding Author)
Online published on 19 May, 2016.
After successful implementation of District primary Education Programme (1997–2002) at the primary level and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (2002-till now) at the elementary level, a demand had been generated at the secondary level. The overall infrastructures at the secondary level of the schools were not too healthy to cope up with burden of extra student load. Under these backdrops, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) has been launched since 2010 as a comprehensive and integrated flagship programme throughout the country. The present study has been conducted in Kolkata, a highly dense population as well as highest literate district and Uttar Dinajpur, in proximity to the lowest literate district of the state of West Bengal. To depict the perception about Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan among student's in term of 16 variables, viz., Age (X1), Daily schooling (X2), Causes for absent in school (X3), Necessity of private tuition (X4), Reason behind private tuition (X5), Drawback in present secondary education (X6), Number of drawback (X7), Remedial measure of secondary education (X8), Social awareness (X9), Additional boost up by RMSA (X10), Effectiveness of SSA/SSM (X11), Help of SSA/SSM (X12), Listen about Mid-Day meal (X13), Role of Mid-Day meal (X14), Mid-Day meal for class IX & X (X15), Successful execution of Mid-Day meal (X16), were found to bear substantial impact on the high and low level of perception (Y) of students.
