West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

43Instalments received at the fag end of March could notbe utilized in the year of receipt / release.(ii) As per Para 89.2 of MFM&P, State Government share was tobe released within 30 days of the receipt of the Central share.But the SSA Mission did not receive state share in 9 out of 14cases during the above three yearswithin the stipulatedtime. Delay in release of instalments pertaining to StateGovernment ranged from 1 day to 132 days of receipt ofCentral share.(iii) 2 n d and 4 t h instalments pertaining to State Government sharefor 2007-2008 were received after 131 days and 62 daysrespectively after the receipt of funds from GOI.(iv) During the financial year 2005-2006, 2 n d instalment of StateGovernment share was received by the Mission after 132days from the date of receipt of funds from GOI.(v) During 2005-2006 and 2007-2008 funds were released by GOI/ GOWB in the last week of March and as such these fundswere not available for purposeful utilization within the sameyears.(vi) 3 r d instalment of 2005-2006 pertaining to GOI share and 3 r dand 4 t h instalments of 2005-2006 and 4 t h and 5 t h & 6 t hinstalments of 2007-2008 in respect of State share werereceived on 31 s t March of the respective financial years.