West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

168were procured and suppliedduring 2005-06 and 2006-07. Hence noexpenditure was incurred nor any student was benefited during thesetwo years. The district office procured & distributed 100 computers to20 schools during 2007-08 out of the fund approved by PAB for 2005-06and 2006-07. Order for 50 computers projected for the year 2007-08 wasplaced on 20.03.2008.Thus computers procured in the year could beprovided during the academic year 2007-08. The actual position of CALin UPS during the period 2005-06—2007-08 is detailed below :Year2 0 0 5 -0 62 0 0 6 -0 72 0 0 7 -0 8PABa ppr ovedFund(Rs. inl a kh)Budgeta ryPr ovisi on inthe Distt.(Rs. in lakh)Expend.No ofUPSNo. ofUpscovered1 5 .00 1 5 .00 Nil Nil Nil1 5 .00 1 5 .00 Nil Nil Nil1 5 .00 1 5 .00 3 7 .96*(2 4 .48+1 3 .48)No ofTeacherTra i nedRemark s7 9 4 2 0 * 7 9 1 0 0 nos. com puterpr ocureda nddistri b uted duri ng2 0 0 7 -0 8 & expdr.i ncur red on C ALRs.24.48 l a kh whileord er f or 5 0 nos.comp uter placed on2 0 .03.2 0 08 forRs.13.48 l a kh coul dnot b e dist ri b uted i n2 0 0 7 -0 8It was observed that the District Project Office claimed tohave covered 4944 children during 2005-06, 5767 children during 2006-07 and 7951 children who were benefited from this CAL programme.But fact remains that no computer was procured during 2005-06 and2006-07 and for the year 2007-08, procurement order for computer wasplaced on 20.03.08 which was not supposed to reach the targetschools/students with the academic year 2007-08.Hence, the number of beneficiaries recorded by the districtProject office was not correct and thereof, not acceptable.