RESOURCE GROUPS AND RESPONSIBILITY CENTRES  

The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan emphasizes quality improvement in elementary education for which it deems necessary that resource groups and responsibility centres from national to sub-district levels are identified. These groups would oversee the policy, planning, implementation and monitoring of all quality related interventions. Their major role would be to advise and assist at various levels in curriculum development, pedagogical improvement, teacher education/training and activities related to classroom transaction.

In order to facilitate a decentralized mode of education, these groups would need to be constituted at various operational levels, namely - national, state, district and subdistrict. The following could be involved in the groups:

National level - NCERT, NIEPA, Ed Cil (TSG), Universities, NGOs, experts and eminent educationists.

State level - SCERT, SIEMAT, Universities, IASEs/CTEs, NGOs, experts and eminent educationists.

District level - DIETs, representatives from DPEP District Resource Group, higher educational institutions, innovative teachers from the districts, NGOs.

Sub-district - BRC/BEO, representatives from CRCs, innovative teachers.