Project SATH-E

Project SATH-E, ‘Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital-Education’, was launched by NITI Aayog in 2017 to identify and build three ‘role model’ States for the school education sector. The three states that were chosen include Jharkhand, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.

  • The first phase of SATH-E was completed in March 2020 and the second phase of the project, SATH-E 2.0, commenced from October 2020.

Achievements

A few of the achievements of the program are as follows:

  • Learning enhancement programme/ remedial teaching with workbook support for approximately 2.3 crore students has been implemented.
  • Academic monitoring of schools and students streamlined, with nearly 1.5 lakh inspections carried out every month.
  • Comprehensive rewards and recognition programmes, including external certifications has been initiated.
  • Assessment reforms, including spot testing and learning tracking formats, have been introduced.
  • Multiple rounds of teacher training undertaken.
  • Under the Digi-SATH initiative, MP’s ‘Hamara Ghar Hamara Vidyalaya’ and ‘Digi- Learning Enhancement Programme’, Odisha’s ‘Shiksha Sanjog’ and ‘Shiksha Sampark’, and Jharkhand’s ‘Hamara Doordarshan Hamara Vidyalaya’ have been providing online education and teacher training.
  • In Madhya Pradesh, 30% of the students moved from lower-level foundational literacy and numeracy to the highest learning level for grades 3–8 in two years of the ‘Dakshta Unnayan’ learning enhancement programme.
  • In Odisha, average improvement of 10–15% was observed in learning outcomes due to the ‘Ujjwal-Utthan’ learning enhancement programme.
  • In Jharkhand, 12% improvement across most competencies was recorded through the ‘Gyan Setu’ learning enhancement programme.
  • After the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, SATH-E adapted itself as ‘Digi-SATH’ to provide undeterred support via digital mediums.

Significance

  • It has strengthened cooperative federalism
  • Significant developments were made in learning enhancement programmes (remediation), governance reforms, teacher training, recruitment, assessment and accountability, school consolidation, IT-enabled monitoring of schools and coaching of academic coordinators.

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