19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata Field Visit Report – Team – 1 Dated 24 th October 2008

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Date of Visit : 24 th October Team Represent by : 1.Bihar -- U.K. Verma, Team Leader 2.Arunachal Pradesh- P Jayaraman 3.Delhi. S.R. Narang & - M. S. Bansal 4.Chandigarh- Roshan Lal; 5.Gujrat- A.D. Patel 6.Kerala- C. S. Nair; 7.Rajsthan- D.C. Chaudhary 8.Tripura- B.B. Majumdar 9.Meghalaya- B. R.Dutta 10.TSG, Ed.CIL- Sri Birkhe Ram - Ms. Kiran Dogra Assistance- Mr. Subrato Dutta SSA, West Bengal 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Date of Visit : 24 th Ooctober 2008 Place Visited by the Team: 1. Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay Janpriya Nagar, Janpriya Vidyalay (H.S.) 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Sincere Acknowledgement to : 1. Sri S. Bhattacharjee, Finance Controller, West Bengal 2. Sri Razamul Karim Tarafdar, D.P.O., 24 Pargana, W.B. 3. Sri Subrato Dutta, SSA, West Bengal 4. Sri Gopi Dey, SSA, West Bengal AND All other Functionaries of SSA, West Bengal 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay Janpriya Nagar, Janpriya Vidyalay (H.S.) Positive findings :  Adequate infra structural facilities - building, compound wall, drinking water facilities; Toilets available.  Girls appeared to be motivated, fearless ;  Learning level of the girls were found satisfactory;  Community Mobilization is found to be satisfactory.  A sum of Rs.1.50 lakh stated to have been received as community contribution for building construction. 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Date of Visit : 24 th Ooctober 2008

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalay Janpriya Nagar, Janpriya Vidyalay (H.S.) Positive findings :  Accommodation, Bedding arrangement were found to be satisfactory. 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Date of Visit : 24 th Ooctober 2008 Enrollment : Total 56 SC 10 ST 5 Minority 39 Gen 1

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 General Operation :  Teaching Learning Materials not available or displayed;  Enrollment Register not properly maintained  Health Card of the girls enrolled were not properly maintained. Rather, on a printed card, name and age of the girls were mentioned without any findings of the health check up.  Practice of Regular Health Check up not followed;  No photographs of the girls or the identity card were available ; 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Operation of Bank Account,  No separate Bank Account of KGBV  Amount transferred from DPO to School from where amount is withdrawn and spent in for KGBV;  No Cash Book is maintained to record the cash transaction at KGBV;  Huge amount is withdrawn and spent. On 25th September’2008 Rs lakh was withdrawn in cash;  No account of expenditure incurred is recorded before next withdrawal;  No Cheque Issue Register is maintained 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1  Stock Register in respect of consumable items or the fixed assets acquired is not maintained;  No physical Verification of Stock has been conducted either by the Centre / DPO or the Auditors  No visitors register is maintained;  No schedule of timing for the appointment of girls with their parents is scheduled or displayed ;  Payment vouchers are nor passed and authorised for payment  Though Accountant is appointed but without any work; 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1  Books of account not available;  164 students enrolled, however only two class rooms available  Even the rooms available are used for non teaching purposes;  It has been found that students were sitting in varandah and cooking wooden sticks were stored in the room. 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Adivasi Prathmik Vidyalay, Ghattalpada :  Toilet / Drinking water facilities not available;  No Compound wall constructed  Out of four teacher positioned in the school, only one teacher present;  In whole the school is running under a very poor condition 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Date of Visit : 12 th February 2008 General observation :  Lack of monitoring by District Project office (DPO)  No training / capacity building exercise from district level  Non availability of even Bench / Desks for the students;  Free Text Book distribution – 100 % students not covered;  No record of Text books received & distributed maintained 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata

Field Visit Report – Team - 1 Wish you all a very happy Diwali Thanks ….. 19 th Review Meeting of SSA - Kolkata