West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

177started during 2004-05 in 11 districts which were stated to beonly fuctional in that year.The districts identified were Bankura, Birbhum Cooch Behar,South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Jalpaiguri, Malda, Purulia,Uttar Dinajpur, Paschim Medinipur and Siliguri. During this year(2004-2005), fund was distributed to 1030 cluster covering 57 EBBin the 1 districts. 169 schools were identified as clusters ResourceSchools for NPEGEL and construction of cluster Resource Centrestarted in 33 schools.11.1.2 Irrational IdentificationAs stated in para (i) Supra ‘NPEGEL’ is applicable toEducationally Backward Blocks (EBB) where the level of ruralfemale literacy is less than the national average and gender gap inliteracy is above the national average. The average of nationalrural female literacy is 46.13% (2001 census) and the nationalaverage gender gap in literacy is 21.59% (census 2001).Against the above national average, the status of the blocksin the average rural female by literary rate in the districts of WestBengal is indicated below :Districts Identified forImplementation of the Scheme (A)% of rural femaleliteracy% of Gender gapin literacy1. Bankura 50.1 27.40