Scheme for Providing Education to Madrasas/Minorities (SPEMM): UPSC Daily Important Topic | 18 May 2023

Scheme for Providing Education to Madrasas/Minorities (SPEMM).

✅SPEMM seeks to provide financial assistance to madrasas and minority institutes.

✅Implementing Agency:

The Department of School Education and Literacy under the Ministry of Education.

Sub-Schemes:

✅Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM): It seeks to bring about qualitative improvement in Madrasas to enable Muslim children attain standards of the National education system in formal education subjects.

✅Infrastructure Development of Minority Institutes (IDMI): It has been operationalised to augment Infrastructure in Private Aided/Unaided Minority Schools/Institutions in order to enhance the quality of education to minority children.

Features:

✅SPQEM:

To provide financial assistance to traditional institutions to encourage them to introduce Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, Hindi and English in their curriculum to attain proficiency.

To strengthen State Madrasa Boards opting for assistance by enabling them to monitor the Madrasa modernization programme.

To provide quality components in Madrasas such as remedial teaching, assessment and enhancement of learning outcomes, Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan etc.

✅IDMI:

To encourage educational facilities for girls, children with special needs and those who are most deprived educationally amongst the minorities.