West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

150The Village Education Committee (VEC)/Ward EducationCommittee (WEC)/ School Management committee (SMC) is theimplementing body of civil work. The village constructioncommittee/ward construction committee (VCC/WCC) a body offive members, get the work done at site with the technical andother guidance of CLRC/Field Engineers.During visits to schools in Murshidabad and South 24-Parganas Districts, it was noticed all the members of theVEC/WEC/SMC are non-technical persons. Besides, one FieldEngineer in the category of Sub-Assistant Engineer is attached tomore than 2/3 circles and each circle has 100 or more Primary andupper Primary Schools. As such the Field Engineer is not in aposition to supervise the work in its entirety for which even aftercompletion of work, utilization certificate issued by the VECremains pending due to non-approval by the former. For instance,in Dakshin Dinajpur Maddhusudan Primary School, NamkhanaCircle in South 24 Parganas 1ACR was completed on 08-12-2008 ata cost of Rs.214772 against the sanctioned amount of Rs.1,85,000/-and the VEC issued the completion certificate on 08-12-2008 butthe Field Engineer neither recorded his technical opinion forexcess expenditure of Rs.29772/- compared to the actual fundallotted nor signed the completion certificate till the date of visitby the Study Team (January 2009) for which the U.C. remainedpending.Apart from the above, there is no system of regularmonitoring of the construction work at site either by theengineering wing of the SIS or by the District Project Office (DPO).Neither the SIS nor the DPO could furnish any accounts of actual