West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

210As per para 36.1 of the MFM & P, out of Rs.1500 perschool per year, Rs.100 and Rs.1400 per school per year will be spentat national level and state level respectively. The State shalldecide onthe distribution of its share at various levels from the state to theschool.Under the intervention RESM the following was the approvedbudget and expenditure during the period from 2005-06 to 2008-09 :-(Rs.in lakh)Year Approved Budget Expenditure %of expenditure toapproved outlay2005-06 464.98 317.08 68.192006-07 783.26 492.71 62.902007-08 829.92 349.29 42.082008-09 772.40 NO EXPENDITURE REPORTED TILLJANUARY 2009The above table indicates decrease in expenditure from 68.19 per centin 2005-06 to 42.08 per cent in 2007-08 reasons for which were not inrecord.In terms of para 26.6. of the MFM&P details of expenditureyear-wise on (a) creation of a pool of resource persons at national,state, district, sub-district level for effective field based monitoring (b)Achievement tests, evaluation studies (c) Research activities (d) specialtask force for low female literacy districts and for special monitoring ofgirls, SC(e) Education Management Information ‘system (f)Assessment and appraised of field activities (g) Institutionalmonitoring of the progress of implementation etc. were not available.It was noticed that the monitoring was severally lacking aslocal level monitoring by VEC/WEC was almost non-functional andSPO had not attempted any evaluation of quality improvement ofeducation as envisaged in the SSA guidelines which would be evident