Provide flexibility to schools in providing teaching-learning materials relevant to their curriculum and local needs:
To relate the scheme with micro planning wherever undertaken, so that supply of inputs is matched by demand side interventions to promote participation;
Intensify training in the use of teaching-learning equipment's; and
Extend the scheme to upper primary schools. In addition, a
number of externally funded projects and programmes are also currently under implementation amongst which the World Bank assisted District Primary Education Programme is the most prominent one. The programme that was launched in 1994 in 42 districts of seven states is currently under implementation in about 150 districts spread over fifteen states. The main objectives of vishwa school are as follows:
Emphasizing the local area planning with district plans being formulated in their own right instead of being derived from a state plan project document;
Infusing greater rigor and professional inputs in planning and appraisal;
More focused targeting in educationally ward districts and districts where total literacy campaign have been successful;
