West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

49It emerges from the above table that :(a) accumulated unspent balance as on 31 s t March, 2008 lying in20 districts was Rs.33,403.94 lakh (SSA : Rs.32,804.2 lakh;NPEGEL : Rs.339.10 lakh and KGBV : Rs.260.60 lakh)representing 12.31 per cent (SSA : 12.29 per cent; NPEGEL :12.79 per cent and KGBV : 15.02 per cent) of the total fundavailable upto 2007-08 (SSA : Rs.266,757.86 lakh; NPEGEL :Rs.2,650.72 lakh and KGBV : Rs.1,734.44 lakh).(b) accumulated unspent balance as on 31 s t March, 2008 wasparticularly heavy in DGHC representing 73.90 percent ofthe fund available. Other districts having substantialbalances were Dakshin Dinajpur : 28.35 per cent; Kolkata :24.32 percent; Jalpaiguri : 18.81 per cent; Purulia : 21.21 percent, Purba Medinipur : 20.19 per cent and Uttar Dinajpur :19.15 per cent.(c) of the total unspent balance ofRs.33,403.94 lakh, Rs.33,396.88lakh was in various banks and Rs.7.06 lakh in cash.(d) The huge accumulation of unspent balances over the years(2005-06 to 2007-08) is indicative of low utilization andpointer to tardy implementation of SSA programmes with theresult of non-fulfilment of the objectives of UEE. During thelast 3 years from 2005-06 to 2007-08, SSA Mission, WestBengal, could achieve only 57.08 percent of the approvedoutlay/target (of activities) as would be evident from thefollowing :Cash and Bank balance held at SPORs.10130.59 lakh