EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), launched in 1994, is a major initiative to achieve universalization of primary education. It was a centrally sponsored scheme.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1994, the District Primary Education Programme was started with the objective of universalisation of primary education.

Detailed explanation-3: -The program intends to make primary education accessible to all, through formal primary schools or alternative methods. The primary objectives of DPEP are: 1.To reduce the school dropout rate at primary schools below 10 percent. 2.To increase the achievement rates by 25% or above the average level.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1993, the MHRD, Gol, conceived the DPEP as an umbrella scheme under which the support from all the different funding agencies would be channelled [MHRD 1993].

Detailed explanation-5: -The centrally-sponsored scheme of the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) was launched in 1994 as a major initiative to revitalize the primary education system and to achieve the objective of universalization of primary education.