Concept, utilizations and impact of parental education with special focus on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is an effort to universalize elementary education by community-ownership of the school system. It is a response to the demand for quality basic education all over the country. The SSA program is also an attempt to provide an opportunity for improving human capabilities to all children, through provision of community-owned quality education in a mission mode. This paper is an attempt to appraise the viability of the project in different states. Though, this project has got huge success initially but thereafter it gradually lost its color.