In 2009, the government launched the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan to bolster secondary education in the country. Six years later, access to secondary education remains a distant reality. This article looks at the issues that bedevil RMSA and argues that adverse student-teacher ratio, a variety of education boards and standards, and tardy use of information and communication technologies have marred the implementationof RMSA.
