OSC Out of School Children Enrollment Drive 2025-26 Guidelines Released

OSC Out of School Children Enrollment Drive 2025-26 Guidelines Released
Rc.No. SS-22021/10/2025-OSC SEC-SSA, Dt.: 21-06-2025

Sub:- AP Samagra Shiksha – OSC Wing - Enrollment Drive and campaign in all the habitations in the State for the Academic Year 2025-26 - Or ders issued.

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Academic Calendar 2025-26 issued by the Director of School Educat ion, A.P., Amaravati.

OSC Out of School Children Enrollment Drive 2025-26 Guidelines Released

ORDER:
Attention of all the District Educational Officers and the Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha in the State is invited to the reference cited and are informed that the Schools are opened from 12-06-2025 for the Academic year 2025-26.

As per the Right to Education (RTE Act) norms, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has proposed an enrollment campaign to conduct a Door-to-Door Survey for identifying school-age children. This drive aims to reduce dropout rates and ensure all children are enrolled in schools by creating awareness about the importance of education, along with the facilities, benefits, and schemes provided for students. The programmes will be conducted from the school reopening day for one month.

The objectives of the programme are:

1. To ensure 100% enrollment of all eligible children in schools.
2. To ensure that no child in the 6-14 age group is left out of school.
3. To bring back all dropout children to school.
4. To conduct the enrollment drive for one month, starting from the school reopening day.

Implementation:

The program will be carried out with the support of Welfare & Education Assistants, Cluster Resource Mobile Teacher (CRMT), Inclusive Education Resource Persons (IERPs), Anganwadi Workers (ICDS) and Part-time instructors under Samagra Shiksha

Expected Outcomes:

1. Increased enrollment rates in government and aided schools.
2. Reduced dropout rates through identification and re-enrollment of out-of- school children.
3. Greater awareness among parents about the importance of education and available government schemes.
4. Strengthened community participation in supporting children’s education.
5. This initiative will help to achieve universal educational access and bridge learning gaps, ensuring that every child gets the opportunity to learn and grow.

Plan of action for the enrollment drive Programme is scheduled in the sequence wise as follows:

1. District level convergence meeting with all line departments and Allotment of Mandals to all District Sectoral of Samagra Shiksha.
2. To display the posters indicating the facilities and amenities provided in the Government Schools.To organize rallies. To explain about the facilities available in the Government Schools ( Thalliki Vandanam, Dokka Seethamma Madhyahana Badi Bhojana Pathakam , Sarveapalli Radha Krishna Vidhyarthi Mithra etc ). To display playcards with good slogans and also Educational schemes available for all categories of Children available.Allotment of habitations to the enumerators.
3. To Conduct village /Habitation level door to door campaign in coordination with, Chairman, Vice Chairman and members of Parents Committee concerned. To motivate the parents by explaining the importance of Education and also facilities and schemes available for their children education. Identification of the children.To enroll immediately after identification of the children into their age appropriate classes in neighboring school. To give “ SRKVM Kits “ to all admitted Children. To assess the academic standards of the admitted children by the teachers of concerned school.To prepare and submit day wise enrollment progress data to the concern authorities in annexed proforma. (Habitations to MEO concerned and MEO to DPO and DPO to SPO).
4. To declare by the Head Master that all school aged children in their allotted houses are admitted in to the Schools. To announce and declare by the Parents committee concerned that all all school age children are admitted in to schools in their habitation /Village. To submit habitation wise enrollment consolidated data.

Implementation of Enrolment Drive

• By Conducting educational awareness camps.
• To prepare and release the posters on the importance of education and facilities, schemes provided by the State and central Governments
• (Dokka Seethamma Madhyahna Bhojana Padhakam (PM-POSHAN), SRKVM kits s, hostel provision for deprived children & to minority children, Thalliki vandanam, Shining stars, free education in private schools for below poverty students@ 25%, trainings to all teachers/HMs/MEOs for quality education etc) .
• Documentary films have to be developed on education and its importance. 
• To explain about the Successors (Role models) among them.
• To involve the community elders to motivate parents for sending their children to the school.
• To involve the print and electronic media for giving wider publicity on the educational facilities available for all the children
• To involve and motivate the educated youth among them for giving wider publicity in social media.

Role of District Educational officers and Ex-officio Project Coordinators :

• To conduct district level convergence meeting with all line departments in coordination with all sectorals and Asst. Sectorals of Samagra Shiksha.
• Instruction should be given to all Dy. Educational officers and mandal educational officers to conduct door to door campaign for identification of children and enrollment drive.
• Should visit 4 or 5 mandals during the programme
• Proper instructions should be given to all the school complex Head Masters ,HMs and the teachers to cooperate with enumerators and guide them properly
• To Conduct day wise review with the Deputy Educational Officers, Sectoral and Asst.Sectoral Officers of Samagra Shiksha
• To instruct the MEOs not to allot any other duties to enumerators until completion of the enrolment drive.

Role of the Additional Project Coordinator :

• Appointment of divisional level monitoring officers with the sectoral officers and Asst. Sectoral Officers of SamagraShiksha
• Visit at least 3 or 4 mandals per day
• Collection of Day wise report from the MEOs
• Preparation of day wise consolidated report in annexed formats and submit the same to State Project Director
• Monitoring Day wise progress and instructions should be given to MEOs, Headmasters, teachers and the enumerators time to time.
• To Conduct day wise review with the sectoral and Asst.Sectoral Officers of Samagra Shiksha.

Role of the Deputy Educational Officers:

• To Conduct mandal level orientation to School Complex Head Masters, MEOs enumerators and other stake holders..
• Visit 4 - 5 mandals per day.
• Cross check at random and ensure quality of the data and programme.
• Co-ordinate with all Mandal Educational Officers in the division.
• Monitor the Progress of programme in their jurisdiction time to time.
• To monitor the day wise consolidation report of MEOs
• To Conduct day wise review with the MEOs

Role of the Sectoral officers and Asst. Sectoral Officers :

• Visit at least 4 to 5 mandals per day in their allotted area.
• During the programme cross check at random of identification and enrollment of the children and to ensure quality of the data and the programme.
• Time to time guidance to the MEOs and Enumerators.
• To Conduct day wise review with the MEOs

Role of Deputy Inspector(Urdu) :

• Deputy Inspector(Urdu) is sole responsible for the programme in all minority habitations in their jurisdiction.
• To instruct all Urdu School Head Masters and the teachers to involve actively and to monitor the programme in all minority habitations in their jurisdiction
• To Visit 5 to 6 habitations per day in their Jurisdiction .
• To motivate the parents and create awareness on the available facilities in the Schools and Educational Schemes for their children Education . Time to time guidance to the Enumerators.
• Cross verification of data at the field level

Role of Mandal Educational Officers:

• To Conduct mandal level convergence meeting by inviting the MPDO, Tahsildar, CDPO concerned in Coordination with School Complex Head Masters, Head masters, Panchayat Secretaries concerned, Welfare & Education Assistant, Village Revenue Officers and other stake holders.
• Allotment of habitations/Villages /wards to the Enumerators as per the schedule.
• Preparation of day-wise and village wise action plan.
• Allotment of habitations/Wards to the enumerators.
• Conduct orientation programme to the enumerators.
• Visit 4 to 5 villages/Habitations/Wards per day.
• During the survey cross check at random and ensure quality data and the programme .
• Collection of day wise data from the enumerators.
• Submission of day wise consolidated report to DPO in consultation with concerned Dy. Educational officer.
• To monitor the Progress on daily basis.
• To visit at least 6-10 habitations/villages per day.
• To review with the enumerators on daily basis.
• Not to allot any other duties to enumerators until completion of the Programme.

Role of enumerators:

• To Attend the orientation meeting.
• Conduct door to door campaign as per the action plan.
• Identification of the children and enroll in the school.
• All habitations should be covered with in the timeline.
• Submission of day wise reports to the MEOs concerned.
• To ensure the quality data and the programme.
• To motivate the parents towards education of their children.
• To explain the schemes — Thalliki Vandanam, Dokka Seethamma Madhyahna Bhojana Padhakam (PM-POSHAN), and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Vidyarthi Mitra(SRKVM kits)— that are available for their children."

Role of Ward Education Assistants :

• Conduct door to door campaign as per the Schedule.
• To support the enumerators by providing accurate information about the school aged children .
• Identification of the children and enrollment in the school.
• To motivate the parents towards education of their children.
• To declare by the Welfare & Education Assistant that all school aged children in their allotted houses are admitted in to the Schools.

Instructions :

• A District level convergence meeting has to be convened.
• Instructions must be given to the MEOs and other responsible officers.
• Prepare the Banners and Postures (a model copy will be sent by the SPO).
• The Enumerators should take proper care to identify and enroll the SC,ST & Minority children.
• The enumerators should not give false and fabricated information under any circumstances . If anything found wrong action will be taken against individuals.
• DEOs, APC and MEOs should not assign any other works to the Enumerators .
• Special focus on all SC,ST & Minority Habitations.
• ALSCO at district level is responsible for the programme and submit the daily report to SPO.
• Involve the community elders and motivate parents for sending their children to the school.
• Involve the print and electronic media for giving wide publicity on this programme and also educational facilities available particularly for the SC, ST and Minority communities.
• Involve and motivate the educated youth among them for giving wide publicity in social media.
• The members , Vice Chairman, Chairman of Parents Committee should take responsibility and to declare that all school aged children in their habitations/villages are admitted in to the School Welfare & Education Assistant should declare that all school age children in their allotted houses are admitted in to the Schools.

The District Educational Officers and Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha in the State are requested to take necessary action to enroll all 'drop-box' children and identified Out of School Children in Regular Schools / KGBVs / Residential Schools through the MEOs, CRPs (Cluster Resource Persons), H.Ms, Village Education Welfare Assistants and Ward volunteers by 12.07.2025 .A copy of the compliance report should be submit to this office for information.

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