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Education
being a matter in the Concurrent List of the
Constitution of India, responsibility for this
rests with both the Central and State
Governments. A major share of the school system
is with 28 States and 7 Union Territories. A
consultative process was initiated with them to
develop corresponding State and UT Action Plans,
while incorporating their concerns and
accommodating the demands of contextualizing the
intervention to State/UT – specific needs and
supporting such modifications technically or
financially through MHRD, NACO and UNICEF.
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A series
of Regional Workshops were planned jointly by MHRD, NACO and UNICEF at Patna, Kolkata,
Chandigarh, Dehradun, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and
Guwahati (March-May, 2005) to have in-depth
sharing of views with the State/UT Departments
of Education, State Councils of Education
Research & Training (SCERTs), State/UT Boards of
Education and State AIDS Control Societies (SACSs)
of all 35 States/UTs and to help finalize the
State/UT Action Plans. (Annexure 3: Summary
Document on the Regional Adolescence Education
Workshops (March-May 2005).
In pursuance of the above initiatives, training resources for co-curricular
activities were readied in the form of a Toolkit developed by DoE (MHRD), NACO with UNICEF.
A Common Minimum Framework was developed by NCERT as part of Scheme on Co-curricular Activities on Skill Development
in Adolescence Education (CASDAE) under NPEP. For curricular activities, training resource and Common Minimum Framework was
developed by NCERT as part of the Scheme of Content on Adolescence
Education. For teacher education, a revised National
Framework on Teacher Education was finalized and this
covers pre-service and in-service education of teacher
and teacher educators.
A National Core Committee has since been
constituted under the Chairmanship of Secretary (S&HE) in November 2005. The
terms of reference of the Committee is indicated below: -
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To review the overall progress in implementation of the NAP from time to time.
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To lay guidelines for the implementation arrangement of the NAP.
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To identify areas for coordination amongst various Departments / Ministries / Agencies involved and
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To give suggestions to the implementing agencies.
On the
similar lines State Core Committees have been formed in
32 out of 35 states.
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