West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

1478.3 Murshidabad District.In Murshidabaddistrict visited by Study team it was noticedthat during 2006-07, There was a provision of 332.24lakh in theDistrict Budget for procurement of free Text Books. Despitetheprovision in the Budget, no fund was released, reasons for which werenot on record. During 2005-06 and 2007-08 there were budgetprovision of Rs.360.80 lakh and 262.51 lakh respectively forprocurement and distribution of text books. D.P.O. office allottedRs.360.60 lakh in 2005-06and 234.32 lakh in 2007-08 to differentschools for this purpose. But the school authorities, instead ofprocuring books, disbursed cash at the prescribed rates to the students.District Project office did not maintain any account of cash distributionto the students for which total amount actually spent by each schoolcould not be ascertained.8.3 South 24 Parganas DistrictIn the schools visited in the districtit was noticed that theschool authority procured text books from the Publisher/BookSellers out of the funds allotted by the District Project Office anddistributed the same to the students with the provision of returnof books after the session was over for reissue of the same in thenext year. In cases where books were already purchased by thestudents cash at the prescribed rates was reimbursed. Budgetestimates of the District were Rs.485.69 lakh, Rs.420.86 lakh and339.05 lakh during the year 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08respectively.