Indian Education Repository

Scheme for Non-Formal Education

Ministry of Human Resource and Development

1988

The scheme document states the programme for action for Non-Formal Education (NFE) under the National Policy on Education (NPE) for habitations without schools, school dropouts, for working children and girls who cannot attend whole day schools. It lays down the salient features of NFEs, financial aspects, parameters for the revision in NFE, role of voluntary agencies and Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and the overall monitoring system.