Residential Schools-Hostel

Programmatic Norms:

1. Support for reaching out to children in sparsely populated, or hilly and densely forested areas with difficult geographical terrain and border areas where opening a new primary or upper primary school and Secondary/Senior Secondary schools may not be viable
2. Preference will be given to Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs), LWEs,  Special Focus Districts (SFDS) And the 115 aspirational districts identified by Niti Aayog.

Financials Norms: -

1. As per SSOR/CPWD Rates, whichever is lower
2. AS per norms for KGBVs/Girls Hostel