Opinion of Educational Functionaries towards the Functioning of Rajiv Vidya Mission (SSA)

SSA is an Indian programme aimed at the universalization of elementary education in a time bound manner, as mandated by the 86th amendment to the constitution of India making free and compulsory education to children between the ages of 6 to 14 a fundamental right. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan realizes that untills now focus has been more on Access to primary education and increase in enrolment and Retention of children in schools with somewhat inadequate attention to quality of education in terms of effective teaching and adequate level of student’s achievement. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan now, while recognizing the need for increasing Access, enrolment and Retention lays stress on improving the quality of elementary education. It therefore proposes a holistic and comprehensive approach to the issue of quality. It encourages decentralization and vibrant role of community in the school management and implementation of interventions. It is implied that planning and interventions and their implementation. Focusing on improvement of quality in elementary education, must go hand in hand with the effort to increase enrolment and Retention (T.N. Dhar, et.al., 2004). This study focuses on the opinion of educational functionaries towards the functioning of Rajiv Vidya Mission.

Rajiv Vidya Mission (RVM/SSA) is an effort to universalize elementary education by 2010 through community ownership. A number of effective studies on the base line assessment about current situation with regard to learning achievement, retention, access, gender, equity, social equity, physical infrastructure etc., were undertaken as preparatory activities. Therefore considering the importance of the learning achievement, retention, access, gender, equity, social equity, physical infrastructure etc. there is a need to understand the opinion of educational functionaries towards the functioning of rajiv vidya mission and the association of variables, the present study is undertaken and although innumerable studies are conducted on rajiv vidya mission(SSA). The results of the study would be of immense useful to bring changes in the school education. Hence the researcher wants to study the -Opinion of Educational Functionaries towards the Functioning of Rajiv Vidya Mission (SSA) in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh.

Objectives
• To study the opinions of the Educational Functionaries with respect to their designation towards the RVM (SSA) with regard to access enrollment, retention and quality provided to the children at primary level.
Hypothesis 1. There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to access. 2. There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to enrollment. 3. There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to retention. 4. There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to quality. The percentage of agreement of the Respondents with regard to Access is 85.99%, which indicates majority of the Respondents agree. ii.

Population & Sample
The percentage of agreement of the Respondents with regard to Enrollment is 82.90%, which indicates majority of the Respondents agree. iii.
The percentage of agreement of the Respondents with regard to Retention is 82.69%, which indicates majority of the Respondents agree. iv.
The percentage of agreement of the Respondents with regard to Quality is 81.32%, which indicates majority of the Respondents agree.

Table 2 Shows the Designation wise 'Mean' and SD values of the opinions of the respondents.
It is evident from the It is evident from the table 3 that, t-test was employed to find out the mean score differences between the Educational Functionaries with respect to their Designation (Teachers and educational Officials)

Testing of Hypothesis-1
There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their Designation towards the RVM(SSA) activities with regard to Access. From table 3 the calculated t-Value 1.740 is not significant at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the formulated null Hypothesis-1 is accepted. Therefore, it is concluded that there is no significant difference between Educational Officials and Teachers in their opinion with regard to Access.

Testing of Hypothesis-2
There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their Designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to Enrolment. From table 3 the calculated t-Value .664 is not significant at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the formulated null Hypothesis-2 is accepted. Therefore, it is concluded that there is no significant difference between Educational Officials and Teachers in their opinion with regard to Enrolment.

Testing of Hypothesis-3
There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their Designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to Retention. From table 3 the calculated t-Value .694 is not significant at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the formulated null Hypothesis-3 is accepted. Therefore, it is concluded that there is no significant difference between Educational Officials and Teachers in their opinion with regard to Retention.

Testing of Hypothesis-4
There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their Designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to Quality. From table 3 the calculated t-Value 5.481 is not significant at 0.05 level of significance. Hence the formulated null Hypothesis-4 is accepted. Therefore, it is concluded that there is no significant difference between Educational Officials and Teachers in their opinion with regard to Quality.

FINDINGS
There is no significant difference in the opinion of Educational Functionaries with respect to their designation towards the RVM (SSA) activities with regard to access, enrolment, retention and quality.