A Study of Utility of Teaching Learning Material at Special Training Centers in Gujarat

Special Training Programme (STP), under the National Mission of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, is under the provision of RTE Act-2009 to provide age appropriate special training with the help of special training material approved by state education authorities and teaching by regular school teacher or trained Bal Mitras in the school premises or as per the convenience of children. The study is a need based third party survey which focuses on finding the ground reality of the alternative schooling system in Gujarat. The study was conducted by Faculty of Education, Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya, Gandhinagar. STP being an alternative schooling programme lacks some of the essential schooling infrastructural facilities and so in such case the use of TLM becomes very essential for proper study. The present paper presents the study of the utility of the Teaching Learning Material (TLM) at Special Training Centres (STCs) in Gujarat.