In accordance with the National Education Policy 2020, which emphasises the importance of life skill education as an essential component of the school curriculum, the School Education Department is implementing ‘Sankalpam’, a project to develop core life skills in students in government schools.
The initiative is being implemented in 1,300 schools in the State (50 per district), covering students from Classes 6 to 8.
The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) of the Department of School Education is implementing the project in collaboration with the NGO Magic Bus India Foundation. Over the next two years, the department intends to expand the initiative to cover all government schools, ultimately reaching 1.3 million adolescents.