2009-10 (16.6 MB) - The National Institute of Open Schooling

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15.3.2 Income
All Non-Plan expenditure are met from own
generated income of NIOS which is coming by way
of admission & examination fees from NIOS learners
and income from sale of publication, interest receipt
and other misc. income. During the year 2009-10
income from fees were to the tune of Rs. 7220.51
lakhs as against Rs. 6833.22 lakhs during 2008-09
whereas income from other sources were Rs.
1715.40 lakh against the previous year figure of
Rs. 1788.20 laksh. In addition to that an amount of
Rs. 319 lakhs related to the year 2009-10 were
received in the year 2010-11. The trend of NIOS
generated income for the last 10 years is given at
Annexure - 1A & 1B.
15.3.3 Expenditure
The Non-Plan expenditure during the year 2009-10
was Rs. 6952.99 lakh as compared to
Rs. 6178.42 lakh during previous year. The Plan
expenditure during the year 2009-10 was
Rs. 1160.92 lakh as compared to Rs. 1502.15 lakh
during previous year. A diagrammatic presentation of
the NIOS Non-Plan and Plan expenditure from
1999-2000 onwards are given at Annexure
II and III.
15.3.4 Budgetary Support
The budgetary support to NIOS from the MHRD
during 2009-10 was Rs. 1500 lakh under Plan
budget. A diagrammatic presentation of Budgetary
support to NIOS from MHRD since 1999-2000 is
given at Annexure –IV.
15.3.5 Fee Concession to Prioritized
Groups
During 2009-10, subsidy aggregating to Rs. 618.07
lakh was given in the form of concessions in admission
fee to the students belonging to weaker sections of
society comprising women, scheduled castes,
scheduled tribes, ex-servicemen and handicapped.
This subsidy was solely met from NIOS generated
funds. The number of beneficiaries availing subsidy
during the year was 181615 [SCs 50991, STs 28545,
Ex-Servicemen 468, Handicapped 2019, Women
99592 (excluding SC/ST Women)].
The rates of subsidy ranged between Rs. 250 to Rs.
450 per student depending on the courses of study
and gender. A diagrammatic presentation of year wise
subsidies given from 1999-2000 to 2009-2010 is
given at Annexure –V.
15.3.6 Important Activities
• In order to comply with accrual system of
accounting depreciation was charged on Fixed
Assets of NIOS.
• Efficient management of working capital was
effected with the help of cash flow and fund flow
statement.
• Effective control was exercised on fixed assets
by way of preparing fixed assets schedule in
proper proforma.
• The annual accounts of NIOS were prepared
on accrual basis in uniform format as applicable
to all central autonomous bodies and prescribed
by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
• The computerization of accounts in all the
Regional Centres of NIOS was adopted and
the monthly accounts of all Regional Centres are
being prepared in Tally 9.0 programme.
• The certificated audit of accounts of NIOS for
the year 2008-09 was conducted by DGACR
from 17.07.09 to 30.07.2009.
• Audit certification of Annual Accounts for the
year 2008-2009 which was obtained from
DGACR has already been tabled in the
Parliament by the MHRD.
15.4 Printing Unit
15.4.1 An Overview
NIOS is one of the biggest government publishing
house. In any distance mode of learning printed
materials play a very important role. The timely
printing and despatch is one of the important activity
in NIOS. Printing Unit of NIOS print study materials
from various printers and supply it to Material
Distribution Unit at Rana Pratap Bagh, Delhi for
further dispatch to the learners.
NIOS prints learning materials of different subjects,
courses, and in several mediums. Majority of the
subjects have 2 to 3 or more volumes. During the
year 2009-10, NIOS printed approximately 48 lakh
copies of Secondary, Senior Secondary and
Vocational Education courses. Study materials in
Hindi, English, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati,
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