EKLAVYA MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

About: 

• Implementing ministry: Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
  
  
• Background: The scheme of EMRSs was introduced in the year 1997-98 to ensure tribal students get access to quality education in the remote tribal areas.
  
  
• Features:
  • The schools would focus to provide quality upper primary, secondary and senior secondary level education to ST Students in these areas.
    
    
  • Apart from school building including hostels and staff quarters, provision for a playground, students' computer lab, teacher resource room etc. are also included in the EMRSs.
    
    
  
  
  
• Revamp of scheme: In December 2018, Union Cabinet revamped the scheme with following features –
  • EMRSs will be setup in every block with more than 50% ST population and at least 20,000 tribal persons. Thereby around 462 schools will be set up in addition to the 288 EMRSs already sanctioned.
    
    
  • There will be an Autonomous Society under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs similar to Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti to run the EMRSs.