National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL)

- The objective of the scheme is to provide additional support to education of girls at the elementary level through the following additional initiatives:
(i) to develop a school, as a "model girl-child friendly school", at the cluster level,
(ii) to provide additional incentives such as stationery, slates, work books, and uniforms and to meet any other locallyfelt need within the existing ceiling of Rs. 150 per child per annum,
(iii) additional intervention like awards to school/teachers, student evaluation, remedial teaching, bridge courses alternative school, learning through open schools, teacher training and child care centers at the cluster level within a ceiling of Rs. 60,000 per annum,
(iv) mobilization and community monitoring within a ceiling of Rs. 95,000 per cluster over a Five year period;
(v) development of materials, and
(vi) planning, training and management support,
- The scheme is implemented in educationally backward blocks (EBBs) where rural female literacy is low.
- The NPEGEL is at present, operational in all EBBs covering 40623 clusters.