West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

141The following pictures emerges from the above table :(i)As per para 27.2 of FMAP though there is no distinctionbetween major or minor repairs and all repairs andmaintenance should be carried out within Rs.5000/- per year,detailed particulars of estimate of each school district wiseand year wise earmarked for repair were not made availablefor scrutiny of expenditure of Rs.763.76 lakh till September,2008 school wise and year wise against the estimate ofRs.2144.62 lakh.(ii) Out of the cumulative target for repair of 4595, work on 1899schools commenced of which 387 were completed and workon 1512 schools was in progress since 2001-02. The remainingschools numbering 2696 representing 58.67 per cent of thetarget approved by PAB were not taken up. As a resultRs.1380.86 lakh representing 64.39 per cent of the cumulativeapproved outlay of Rs.2144.62 lakh remained idle till 30 t hSeptember 2008. This highlights extremely low completion ofrepair work which was mainly due to (a) no initiationprocess to select suppliers of materials by VEC,/WEC, untilfunds are deposited in VEC accounts, (b) absence of regularmonitoring of the work by the engineering wing of the