Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States Programme

The Indian government and the World Bank signed a $500 million Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States Programme (STARS) to improve the quality and governance of school education in six states — Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Rajasthan.
The project will be implemented through the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, the flagship central scheme, in partnership with these six states.

The STARS project is aimed at improving the overall monitoring and measurement activities in the school education system through interventions in selected states.
The total cost of this project is over five thousand crore rupees and the World Bank will provide the financial support of three thousand 700 crore rupees.
This project will be instrumental in the implementation of National Education Policy 2020 by strengthening early childhood education and foundational learning, ICT enabled approaches and promoting teachers development and vocational education.

The objectives of the STARS programme are:
- strengthening early childhood education and foundational learning;
- facilitating school to work transition through vocational education;
- improving learning assessment mechanisms; and
- supporting teacher development.
STARS will support India’s renewed focus on addressing the ‘learning outcome’ challenge and help students better prepare for the jobs of the future — through a series of reform initiatives.
In line with the Sustainable Development Goal for education (SDG 4), the program will help produce better data on learning levels by improving the National Achievement Survey (NAS).
Around 250 million students (between the age of 6 and 17) in 1.5 million schools and over 10 million teachers will benefit from the programme.

The STARS programme builds on the long partnership between India and the World Bank (since 1994), for strengthening public school education and to support the country’s goal of providing ‘Education for All’.
Prior to STARS, the bank had provided a total assistance of more than $3 billion towards this goal.

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