The purpose of SSA programme is Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) with adequate facilities for 8 years of elementary schooling of satisfactory quality and provision of alternative schooling facilities in un-served habitations, effective pedagogical interventions to make school attractive, and provision of adequate and context specific initiatives to promote equity by specially targeting the most deprived children.

The objectives of SSA

• All children in school, EGS, AS, Back to school camps by 2003.
• Ensure that all children complete 5 years of primary schooling by 2007.
• Ensure that all children complete 8 years elementary schooling by 2010.
• Provide elementary education of satisfactory quality with emphasis on education for life.
• Bridge all gender and social category gaps at primary stage by 2007 and at elementary level by 2010.
• Universal retention by 2010.