West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

134primary school teachers were not paid the grant during theseyears. However, the performance in 2007-08 and 2008-09 (uptoSeptember 2008) in proved considerably with practically noshortfall.South 24-ParganasDuring 2005-06, 12,806 primary and 7,647 upper primaryschool teachers and during 2006-07, 7,818 primary and 6,086 upperprimary school teachers were not paid the teachers grant. Recordsof the DPO disclosed that instead of paying the teachers grant to3,657 primary school teachers during 2007-08, the DPO procured3,657 sets of micro microscopes at the rate of Rs.495/- eachamounting to Rs.18.10 lakh and distributed the same to as manyschools. Utility of these microscope as TLM in primary schoolscould not be justified vide para No. chapter .Detailed scrutiny of records of one Circle Resource Centre(Diamond Harbour South) disclosed that grants for 2007-08 werebelatedly released in the subsequent financial year as detailedbelow:(Rs. in lakh)