Performance of Flagship Programmes in Tamil Nadu

the Government fold and evolved an internal monitoring evaluation system, in
addition to an occasional external evaluation.
(2) Financial allocation to Tamil Nadu under this scheme by the centre was Rs. 144
crore in 2007-08 and increased to Rs. 402 crore in 2009-10. At the same time,
the expenditure increased from Rs. 144 crore to Rs. 400 crore. Thus, the fund
utilization ratio is almost 100 percent.
(3) Egg and fruit are introduced in the meal thrice a week. All students who wanted
to avail of the meal in the school are served food. About 57.75 lakh students
benefited from the scheme. More than 47 thousand schools implement the midday
meal scheme for 220 days in a year. Of this, 39,282 are local body
Government schools. The socially backward groups seem to have also benefited.
(4) The intervention of nutrious meal has reduced drop out rate at primary level to
1.02 percent and at upper primary to 1.88 percent in 2009.
(x) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
(1) Tamil Nadu has been striving to achieve 100 percent literacy and the Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan programme has helped the state to also focus on education
beyond the primary level.
(2) During 2001-02 to 2009-10, the centre released Rs. 2,506 crore and the state
released Rs. 1,140 crore under this scheme.
(3) About 97 percent of the grants received were spent up to 2009-10.
(4) Enrolment of girls improved both at primary and upper primary and the gender
gap in education reduced. Teacher pupil ratio is highly satisfactory at 1: 30 level.
(5) There has been dramatic improvement in the completion rates, fall in repetition
rates and dropout rates in the state. It is not clear whether it is due to better
performance of the students over years or due to the recent norm that the
student not to be failed from class one to eight and that the teacher, need to
take precaution that the weak students catch up with the bright ones, in all the
government and government aided schools
(6) The number of habitations not served with primary schools/EGS centers is 402.
Dharmapuri has the largest number of habitations (53) without access to primary
schools or EGS centers, followed by Krishnagiri, Salem and Coimbatore districts
with about 37-39 habitations. There are 393 habitations without access to
upper primary school with in a distance of 3 kilometres. Dharmapuri district has
the highest number of (55) habitations, followed by Cuddalore, Salem,
Krishnagiri and Didigul districts.
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