West Bengal Report-IPAI.pdf - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

94also offered by P&RDD, NSK which reached 342097 learners, anincrease of 132737 students from 2005-06 through 1803 permanentcentres. However enrolment under SSP remained static withenrolment of 73793 children.SSKs and MSKs received financial support from the StateMission in 2005-06 and 2006-07. Since 2007-08 these were beingfunded entirely through the state budget. This reflected a decisionby the State Government not to upgrade these centres to regularschools. During visit to selected districts, it was noticed seriousovercrowding, poor infrastructure (classroom, furniture, toiletsetc.) lack of teaching and learning materials etc. which wasadversely affecting the quality of learning.Mention may be made here that the State Mission agreedJanuary 2008 with the Join Review Mission that a comparativestudy of a representative sample of students’ performance inClass-II and III external examinations between regular and SSKschools to assess the quality would be undertaken. But no suchstudy was conducted (January, 2009).4.12.2 Selected districts :The position showing the number of EGS type SSKs, MSKsand SSPs along with enrolment therein in the selected districts ofMurshidabad and South 24-Parganas during the last three yearsupto 2007-08 was as given in the table below: