The "Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan" (Hindi for "Total Literacy Campaign") was launched in 2001 to ensure that all children in the 6–14-year age-group attend school and complete eight years of schooling by 2010. An important component of the scheme is the "Education Guarantee Scheme and Alternative and Innovative Education", meant primarily for children in areas with no formal school within a one-kilometer radius. The centrally sponsored "District Primary Education Programme", launched in 1994, had opened more than 160,000 new schools by 2005, including almost 84,000 alternative schools.