West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

17of child population in a specific habiutation with relevant socioeconomicdata and distrisbution of literacy at village levels as percontract. Incidentally, mention may be made here that West BengalBoard of Secondary Education incurred expenditure of Rs.6 lakhfor school mapping during 2007-08 but details of such mappingwere not made available to the Survey Team. The SIS could notmake available records justifying school mapping done by RMSPduring 2008-09 which had already been done by WBBSE.2.2 Annual Work Plan & Budget.According to Para 19.2 of the Manual on Financial Managementand Procurement, Annual Plans need to seen as a complement to theperspective plans but the latter was prepared not as per SSA procedurestated above. The AWP & B should be formulated through participatoryplanning process and there should be documentation that the planshave been prepared at the habitation level in participation withcommunity and target groups. During field visit, it was noticed by theStudy Team that the above declared procedure was totally absent downbelow the district level. It was learnt from the VEC/WEC/Schools/SMCsvisited by the Team that concerned sections were not even aware of theabove planning process and they were never assured to prepare orinvolve themselves in the planning/budgeting process. It was furtherreported by them that their repeated requests for inclusion of theirrequirement in the district budget were not taken care of. The fact wasconfirmed by the CLRCs that they were neither asked to submit anyplan/budget for inclusion in the district AWP&B nor, plans submittedby the CLRC were considered for inclusion in the district AWP&B. Eventhe basic requirements, viz, drinking water facilities toilets, girls’separate toilets, bench with desks for primary students, etc., were nottaken care of which would be evident in Chapter-16 on Field visits.