District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) was launched in the year

Since the World Conference on Education for All held in Jomtien in 1990, several new programs and projects have been initiated to achieve the major goals of EFA.

• Besides, in the 1990s, several policies were formulated to create an enabling condition for the effective implementation of EFA interventions.
• One of the earlier initiatives, which were further strengthened during this period is the District Primary Education Programme. 

District Primary Education Programme:

• The District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), launched in 1994, is a major initiative to achieve universalization of primary education.
• It was a centrally sponsored scheme.
• The DPEP adopts a holistic approach to universalize access, improve retention and learning achievements, and to reduce gender and regional disparities and disparities among socially disadvantaged groups.
• The strategies, central to the program, are
  • decentralization of planning and management (i.e. focus on local level planning);
  • mobilization of the community for effective participation in planning,
  • management and supervision;
  • local-level capacity building;
  • strengthening of the existing database (i.e. EMIS, PMIS, etc.);
  • interventions for school improvement; and
  • sustainability

From the above, we can conclude that DPEP is launched in the year 1994.