The Model School scheme was launched in November 2008 in pursuance to the announcement of the Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech of 2007. The scheme aims to provide quality education to talented rural children through setting up of 6,000 model schools as benchmark of excellence at block level at the rate of one school per block. The scheme has the following objectives:

• To have at least one good quality senior secondary school in every block.
• To have a pace setting role.
• To try out innovative curriculum and pedagogy.
• To be a model in infrastructure, curriculum, evaluation and school governance.

• Status of Model Schools as on October, 2013