The Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan has emerged from the amalgamation of which of the following schemes?

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Correct — C. Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (launched 2018) is an integrated scheme for school education, from pre-school to senior secondary, created by merging three earlier centrally sponsored schemes: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA, elementary education), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA, secondary education) and the Teacher Education (TE) scheme.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Only SSA is genuinely one of the merged schemes; the National Skill Development Mission is a separate skilling initiative, not a school-education scheme folded into Samagra Shiksha.  (b) Only RMSA is genuinely one of the merged schemes; the rural digital literacy mission is an unrelated IT-literacy programme, not part of the merger.  (d) Both are girl-child welfare/savings schemes with no role in the school-education scheme merger that created Samagra Shiksha.

Concept: Before 2018, India's school education was funded through separate, stage-wise centrally sponsored schemes — elementary, secondary, and teacher training were each run independently. Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan collapsed this stage-wise silo into one integrated programme spanning pre-school to Class 12, so that funding, planning, and monitoring could follow a school (and a child) continuously across stages instead of switching schemes at each transition.

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