SAMUHA-Plan believes that without formal qualifications, a child has few hopes to access further mainstream education or employment opportunities. SAMUHA-PLAN will undertake community processes to sensitise families and children about the advantages of formal education and to facilitate children's access to formal education.

Education can best be sustained if the role of teachers, as primary stakeholders, is expanded and developed. Adults and decision-makers in local communities are often not sufficiently interested in formal education to even look at what makes the difference between schooling and quality education. While the government teacher operates outside the 'educational' authority of a committee that may itself have very little schooling, the development and support of community-based GSA's(Govt. School Assistants) will also allow the community an opportunity to learn 'education' as they go along. In addition, the child will gain through a GSA focusing greater attention on specified subjects. The GSA will also support re-enrolment and community sensitisation / motivation programmes, and after-school activities.

Another pressing problem plaguing the education system are Public exams for Class 7 and Class 10 students. Public exams are conducted by the govt education board and are generally very difficult. Rural children find it quite hard to clear these board exams since govt teachers rarely conduct exams of a serious nature in the villages. These board exams evoke fear in students and many fail to even attend them and eventually drop out of school.

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