MoE has discontinued the Shaal Siddhi initiatives from 2023-24.

Shaala Siddhi

For providing quality education to all children in the Indian education system, there is a need for improving the performance of the schools and establishing effective schools.

For a comprehensive evaluation of the schools to improve the quality of school education in India, the National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation (NPSSE), also known as Shaala Siddhi, was initiated by the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), with the support of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.

The NPSSE (Shaala Siddhi) is an initiative for evaluating schools and improving school education quality, which includes both the elementary and secondary levels. It seeks to support the continuous evaluation of every school for its development and improvement.

The Shaala Siddhi programme intends for developing a common understanding across stakeholders of the what, how and why of school evaluation. As a part of Shaala Siddhi endeavour, the School Standards and Evaluation Framework (SSEF) is developed as an instrument for evaluating school performance.

The SSEF will help the schools for evaluating their performances against well-defined criteria in a strategic and focused manner. The SSEF has flexibility that makes it highly suitable for adaptation, contextualisation and translation in state-specific languages. It is designed as a strategic instrument for both external and self-evaluation.