Transcript Annexure

Annual Work Plan & Budget (2014-15) SSA-RTE Manipur Project Approval Board Meeting 20

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February, 2014

Audit Para

Compliance of Audit observations awaited for 2005-06, 2006-07 and also for 2008-09 to 2011-12.

CHALLENGES

EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS

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The retention rate at primary level is only 63.

The lowest retention rate is (48) in Imphal East district, where the girls’ retention rate is 47.

The ST drop-out rate is 15% and Muslim drop-out rate is 17% in one year.

The overall dropout rate is 9%. In 3 districts e.g.

Urukul(21%), Amenglong(18%), & Senapati(13%), the drop-out rate is very high.

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CHALLENGES Access

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State is too slow in completing the analysis of GIS mapping. State completed the mapping in 2011-12 and state committed to complete analysis of report of the exercise, that is to find out actual status of habitations as per walking distance for setting up schools in 2012-13. So far state has completed the analysis for habitations requiring Upper primary facility.

State needs to complete the entire exercise soon so that state can assess need of different access facilities as per need across the state.

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CHALLENGES Out of School Children:

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State has no Drop out definition.

State has not yet initiated identification of disadvantaged groups like Migrants and others.

State has identified Urban deprived only in capital city and that too in 2011-12.Up dated data is not available.

VER was not found in schools visited by MI in Chandel and Imphal west districts Contd …

CHALLENGES

QUALITY : Students and teachers attendance is an issue.

Manipur was not included in the Study conducted during 2006-7 Students Attendance Teachers Attendance Primary 2012-13 67.1

78.4

Upper Primary 2012-13 68.3

81.7

Less than national average 77.8

Just as per national average 81.3

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CHALLENGES

QUALITY :

The State has 151 schools with adverse PTR and 6392 surplus teachers and 176 single teacher schools. However the State PTR is good. It is There is a need to look in to the issue of teacher redeployment.

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Primary Schools with Adverse PTR 149 Surplus Teachers 5813 Single Teacher School 174 State PTR 1:19 Upper Primary 2 579 2 1:31 Contd …

CHALLENGES

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QUALITY : There are large number untrained teachers (7157) in the State. Last time sanction was given for the training of 2700 teachers whose approval was given by NCTE.

Remaining 4457 teachers are yet to be trained. However, out of these 2233 teachers does not posses basic qualifications as per NCTE norms i.e. 45% marks in 12 th class. State needs to identify theses teachers before getting them trained.

The State has 35 block and 225 CRCs. State has appointed 210 BRPs and 350 CRPs. All the BRPs, and CRPs are on contractual basis whereas as per FMP (Financial Management Procurement) norms the BRC and CRCs have to be senior teachers on regular basis.

State has large number of vacancies (more than 50%) in SCERT and DIETS. There is need to fill up these vacancies so as to get academic support to bring in quality.

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CHALLENGES

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QUALITY : Revision of textbooks and curriculum has been done by the Board of Secondary Education Manipur. Since it is function of SCERT being an academic body, the State may like to relook in to this aspect.

MI reported that in 10 ( ten) sample schools i.e. Bonglikuki Primary School, Heibunglok Primary School, PurumTampak High School, ThabiKeithel Primary School, YamolchingKuki Primary School(Karyam), AimolNgairong Upper Primary School, Moreh Ward No. 7 Primary School (CananVeng), The Khoibu Govt. Junior High School, Yangoupokpi Primary School and Yangoutubi Primary Schools have no Black-Boards in the classroom.

In the 40 sample schools, the total number of teachers in position were181 (Male-92, Female-89). Majority of the sample schools had vacant post of teachers. Specialized teachers were also not available in each class for teaching Science, Mathematics and Languages separately. The total numbers of trained teachers in the sample schools were 68 (male-23, female-45).

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CHALLENGES

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MI Report on Quality Most of the schools do not have proper blackboard facility in the elementary schools.

None of the sample schools visited have library facilities in the school.

Majority of the sample schools have adequate classroom furniture and the present infrastructures in the classrooms are in average conditions.

None of the sample schools have proper lightning and ventilation facilities, child friendliness.

Majority of the school do not have drop out students.

Majority of the sample schools had vacant post of teachers.

Specialized teachers were also not available in each class for teaching Science, Mathematics and Languages separately.

Majority of the sample schools visited used local dialect as the medium of instruction and local dialect is also translated Contd … when required for better understanding.

CHALLENGES

Inclusive Education :

The State has adequate trained manpower (98 resource persons in pla)e for IE. The State also has 110 volunteers for 518 HBE CWSN. The ratio is 1:5. Rather than having such huge manpower, the State should clearly rationalise the existing RPs and use them for school and home visits.

Moreover the State should build the capacities of the regular teachers on inclusive teaching as 8158 CWSN are enrolled in schools. The Appraisal Team has not recommended any IE volunteers.

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CHALLENGES

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School Infrastructure: Civil works Out of Rs.14197.43 lakhs spill over works approved during 2013-14 State has shown a spill over of Rs.5783.83 lakhs for 2014-15.

Large number of PS (545 and 3), UPS (91 and 65 not taken up) and ACRs (1024 and 1029 not taken up)are in progress for which 20% funds are to be approved as deferred liability for PS & UPS and 100% funds for ACRs. Deferred liability for 2014-15 is about Rs.

123.00 crore.

The certificate for individual buildings has not been obtained from the District Collectors. However land availability certificate for the building proposed has been furnished by the State Project alongwith the list of buildings proposed.

Director

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CHALLENGES

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KGBV State needs to do actual compliance with respect to recommendations of KGBV evaluation team, particularly in the areas of safety, security of girls, enrollment of marginalized groups like Kukki tribes and NGO monitoring so that they are secular in their approach.

There should not be access to male in KGBV premises and due care should be taken for security of Girls. Close supervision and monitoring required at all level.

The pace of construction work is slow. 10 buildings out of a total of 11 KGBV buildings are still to be completed. Rent for the buildings would be sanctioned subject to States commitment to complete all the buildings before the next academic session. State must also set up a regular monitoring mechanism for ensuring quality of construction as per norms State is yet to notify KGBVs as Government schools .

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CHALLENGES Girls Education

Over all major educational indicators the educational participation of girls in terms of their enrolment shares, retention and transition etc are improving. But the drop out rate of girls at primary level is 9.17% and at Upper primary level is 6.84% which is quite high. State should take initiatives and build strategies to work against the root cause to prevent dropout among girls at early stages and mainstream them through the different strategies under the ambit of SSA.

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KGBV Action Taken Report on Observations of Evaluation Team for KGBVs.

1 Sl no Issues The KGBVs in Manipur do not cater to out of school/ never enrolled girls, but enrolling school going girls in the KGBVs primarily on grounds of economic constraints of their families despite the fact that state has large number of out of school girls.

Identification of students is done in an ad-hoc manner.

Network of the church had been used to enroll girls consequently and there were girls from other blocks/ Districts.

Action Taken

Deputy Commissioners/ Chairperson, District Board of Education Chairman who of the are also the Management Committee for KGBVs in their respective districts have enrolled girls in the Academic Session 2014 which started in February who are (i) Unable to go to regular schools (ii) Out of school girls in the 10+ age group who are unable to complete primary school and (iii) Girls of migratory populations.

Residential and Non-Residential Special Trainings are provided to newly identified Girls falling under the category for further enrollment.

Comments No specific / targeted action on the enrollment of girls of specific groups like cookies who migrated frequently.

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KGBV 2 Sl no 3 Action Taken Report on Observations of Evaluation Team for KGBVs.

Issues It is a matter of serious concern that Male teachers and staffs stay on campus and have unrestricted access to the living area of the girls.

The role of religious organizations needs to be checked and State Government should make efforts to identify NGOs that work with all communities in a non- discriminatory and secular manner. Each KGBV may be verified individually to ensure character of the the secular school along with provision other basic infrastructure.

of Action Taken Male Teachers who were hired temporarily by the Management Committee have been discontinued in KGBVs. Process for recruitment of Female Teaching and Non Teaching Staffs who possesses educational qualification laid prescribed by NCTE is being taken up through the DC/Chairman, DBE.

All KGBVs in the State are secular in nature and no Religious Organizations are involved in the management/functioning of any of the 11(eleven) KGBVs in the State.

Comments Safety guidelines not issued and implement ed.

NGO Verification & orientation needs be to taken up

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KGBV Action Taken Report on Observations of Evaluation Team for KGBVs.

4 Sl no 5 Issues Action Taken Comments Teacher recruitment was found to be by an ad-hoc process SMC and where the in the village authority appoints them, which is against the RTE norms.

Training and capacity building of teachers has been inadequate and has never been conducted for wardens.

Recruitment Rules incorporating provisions laid down under NCTE for teaching and Non-Teaching staffs of KGBVs prepared.

Recruitment of Female Teaching and Non-Teaching Staffs is being taken up at the District level with respective Commissioners Deputy Chairperson of the DPC.

as Academic Authority will be consulted for providing comprehensive training for KGBV functionaries.

Copy of rules laid down in this needs shared.

regard to be Action should be taken and share training schedule with MHRD

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KGBV Action Taken Report on Observations of Evaluation Team for KGBVs.

6 Sl no 7 Issues No enriched curriculum was found.

A definite personality focus on development, gender training and leadership development is required in the curriculum.

Convergence across the board with other schemes such as PDS, KSY, School programme, Health and provision to augment resources is low at present.

Action Taken SCERT has been requested to revise curriculum for incorporation of gender positive and gender sensitive materials.

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Action Plan for providing regular Medical Check-up and providing Iron and Folic Acids to Students is planned with NRHM during the current Academic Session.

Convergence with PDS and KSY will be initiated with stakeholder department nutrition, health and educational support KGBVs.

to for girls provision residing of in Comments Coordination with gender resource persons to be initiated within frame.

a time Share the implementation on conversions

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Comments on States commitments made during PAB 2013-14 and action taken thereon: Sl. No 1.

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Commitments Action Taken Remarks The State fulfill commitments early years would all of which are still pending as per para 7.

The State committed to complete the 10 KGBVs by March 2014.

The State committed to saturate toilets and drinking in all existing schools in convergence the Department with of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

State has already taken up all the commitments early years.

by July 2014.

of Completion of KGBVs likely Saturated except the newly opened 180 New Primary Schools approved in Supplementary PAB of 2010-11. Composite School structure as per RTE Act not approved.

The provisions are proposed in PAB of 2014-15.

A few commitments of early years are yet to be complied as reported Table 2.

in Not Complied the Noted

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Comments on States commitments made during PAB 2013-14 and action taken thereon: Sl. No 4.

Commitments The State Government will provide its State share for the approved plan on 90:10 Centre State sharing pattern and first installment of the State released share to Implementation would the be State Society within one month of release of central share.

Action Taken No shortfall in release of corresponding Share.

State Remarks Noted 5.

Yet to Start 6.

The State will roll out and use Quality Monitoring Tools developed by NCERT.

In initial implantation.

stage of The State will notify a local grievance redressal mechanism immediately, will notify local authority.

Notification of Local Authority under section 9 of the RTE Act is awaited.

State is planning to entrust redressal to grievance the Authority notified.

Local Not complied

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Comments on States commitments made during PAB 2013-14 and action taken thereon: Sl. No 7.

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Commitments The State will endeavor to recruit at least 50% female teachers out of the total teachers recruited.

The State must review the subject load on the children and rationalize in the light of NCF-2005.

The State should orient all the functionaries, functionaries project MIS in particular, on the triangulation data from different sources and in respect of different indicators to help them develop understanding of an the nature of challenges in the way of ensuring that all children are in school.

Action Taken More than 60% of the teachers recruited under SSA are female.

Academic Authority is consulted for rationalization.

being Orientation functionaries training at the for project state and district level conducted regularly with different stakeholder departments Tribal viz Affairs Education(S), and Hills Department, Social Welfare etc Further, orientation training also conducted for data collection, compilation and dissemination for U-DISE and Aadhaar friendly DISE for functionaries at the state, district, block and cluster level.

Remarks Noted Yet to be Complied Noted

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Comments on States commitments made during PAB 2013-14 and action taken thereon: Sl. No 10.

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Commitments The State will initiate steps for curricular reform as per section 29 of the RTE Act, and in accordance with the Advisory No F. No.

1-15/2010 EE 4 issued by the MHRD and in keeping with the principles 2005.

of NCF, The State will review in-service teacher training programmes to ensure conforms revised that to it the curriculum, and formulate a long term in-service teacher development programme.

Action Taken Notification implementation of issued CCE by for the Academic Authority. Special focus on CCE during in service teachers training.

Academic Authority being consulted for curricular reform.

A comprehensive teachers training programme in consultation with Academic authority being formulated for elementary teachers at primary and upper primary level.

the 2700 untrained teachers being imparted 2 year course on D.El.Ed in 28 programme study centres through open distance learning mode under IGNOU.

Remarks Yet to be complied Noted

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Comments on States commitments made during PAB Sl. No 12.

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2013-14 and action taken thereon: Commitments Action Taken The State will ensure that all teacher related provisions under the RTE Act, including prescribed schools, assigning adherence PTR in prohibition of all of non-academic tasks Elections (barring and Census, Disaster Management), recruitment of professionally qualified teachers after they have passed TET, etc are put into practice in all schools in the State.

The State agreed to notify its decentralized grievance redressal October, systems 2013 and by to constitute the SCPCR in the State by December, 2013.

State is maintaining PTR of 1:18 at Primary level and 1:17 at the Upper Primary level.

Notification for prohibition of assigning non-academic tasks to teachers will be initiated.

Only teachers Professionally as per qualified qualifications prescribed under NCTE norms are appointed. Further, more than 60% of the teachers recruited under SSA are female.

Teachers Eligibility Tests conducted every year from 2012 onwards to ensure professionally teachers are recruited.

qualified Notification awaited for decentralized grievance redressal system SCPCR Welfare constituted by Department Social vide notification no.9/25/2009-S(SW) Pt dated 2 nd November 2012.

Remarks Noted Not Complied

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Action Taken Report on Commitments of 2012-13

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Commitment It will ensure that all teacher related provisions under the RTE Act, including adherence of prescribed PTR in all schools, prohibition of assigning nonacademic tasks (barring Elections Disaster Census, and Management), recruitment of professionally qualified after they teachers have passed TET, etc are put into practice in all schools in the State. As in the past 50% female teachers should be recruited.

Action Taken by State The state is under process to develop an effective transparent and system rationalize to and redeploy the teachers in every district. Qualified primary teachers are recruited after they TET have clear mandated under the Act and amongst newly the recruited Primary Upper and Primary Teachers, more than 50% are female teachers.

Comment Not complied Action Taken by the State during 2013-14 State is maintaining PTR of 1:18 at Primary level and 1:17 at the Upper Primary level.

Notification prohibition of assigning non-academic tasks to teachers initiated.

will for be Only qualified per Professionally teachers as qualifications prescribed under NCTE norms are appointed.

Further, more than 60% of the teachers recruited under SSA are female.

Teachers Eligibility Tests conducted every year from 2012 onwards to ensure professionally qualified teachers are recruited.

Action Taken Report on Commitments of 2012-13 Sl. No.

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Commitment It will ensure completion of all spillover and fresh civil works sanctioned under SSA in compliance with the provisions of the RTE Act.

Action State Civil Taken by Works sanctioned as fresh and spillover could not be taken up in the first 3 (three) quarters due to legal complicacies and is almost resolved.

State Project Office have started releasing funds for construction of KGBVs Residential and Schools and construction have started. Further, 1 st Installment of funds for construction of new schools spillovers released and March 2013.

will other be within Comment The commitment has not been meet.

Action Taken by the State during 2013-14 State has taken up all Spill over sanctioned in works 2013-14 except reallocation of 62 UPS which is awaited approval of PAB 2014-15 and 1407 Ramps with handrails.

Other Spill over works could not be taken up in 2013-14 as Rs.12253.93

lacs was deferred liability for 2014-15.

Action Taken Report on Commitments of 2012-13 Sl. No.

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Commitment It will ensure that all schools provided are drinking water and toilets as per the directions the of Hon’ble Supreme Court.

Action Taken by State SSA/SMA, Manipur have provided 232 Girls and Boys Toilets drinking facility and in Government 140 water Urban Schools.

Comment The ATR mention no.

of schools covered.

It is not cleared if all the have school covered.

been Action Taken by the State during 2013-14 SSA has provided temporary drinking water facility in all schools and permanent facility in respect of schools in urban areas. Further, in respect of schools located in urban areas toilets have been provided by SSA and in respect of schools in rural areas, toilets has been provided by Total Sanitation Campaign.

The provision is to be provided for 180 new primary schools sanctioned in supplementary PAB of 2010 11, wherein composite school structure was not sanctioned.

The provisions are proposed in PAB 2014-15.

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Action Taken Report on Commitments of 2012-13 Commitment It will put in place a Grievance Redressal Mechanism in accordance with the Advisory No. F. No.

1-18/2010 – EE 4 issued by the MHRD under section 31 and 32 of the RTE Act.

The state should work out the monthly expenditure plan and review the trend of expenditure regularly.

Action Taken by State A Redressal established Grievance cell in is the State Project office.

Development of Redressal Mechanism at the District and Sub-District Level is in progress.

Monthly expenditure Plans is reviewed and worked out on regular basis Comment Noted Noted Action Taken by the State during 2013-14 Notification of Local Authority under section 9 of the RTE Act is awaited. State is planning to entrust grievance redressal to the Local Authority notified Will be initiated.

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The review State the must subject load on the children and rationalize in the light of NCF-2005.

The State/SSA, SMA had reviewed subject load on the children in the year 2009-10 and been Subjects have reduced considerably.

Required fresh review Academic Authority is being consulted for rationalization.

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Action Taken Report on Commitments of 2012-13 Commitment The State must review the subject load on the children and rationalize in the light of NCF-2005.

All the vacancies of the Finance and Accounts personnel at the SPO shall be filled up before the 1st installment is released to the state.

The release of 2nd installment will be subject to filling up of all other vacancies at the SPO, DPO and Sub district levels.

Action Taken by State The SMA State/SSA, had reviewed subject load children on in the the year 2009-10 and Subjects been have reduced considerably.

The vacancies of the Finance and Accounts personnel at the SPO filled.

had been Comment Required fresh review Noted Action Taken by the State during 2013-14 Academic Authority is being consulted rationalization.

for All posts Finance of and Accounts personnel at the SPO filled up

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Status of RTE Implementation Mandatory notifications Grievances Redressal Mechanism Constitution of SCPCR/REPA School Management Committee Academic Authority State Advisory council No Board Examination No corporal punishment / mental harassment No detention / expulsion Banning private tuition Screening procedure / capitation fee Minimum number of working days / instructional hours of school Minimum working hours for teachers Notification regarding weaker sections 2(e) Disadvantaged Groups Section 2(d) 25% admission in pvt. Unaided schools section 12(1)( C ) Local Authority Whether the notifications issues Yes/No (If yes please provide a copy of the Notification) No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No

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PROGRESS DURING 2013-14

Outlay 29552.96

Exp.

21790.84

% Exp. Against Outlay 74%

BUDGET FOR 2014-15

Differed 2013-14 Spill over Proposal Fresh Total Differed 2013-14 Recommendation Spill over Fresh Total SSA KGBV 12254.06

0 TOTAL 12254.06

5871.74

440039.57 61321.431 2186.11 5773.39 15911.905 23871.40

0 717.73

717.73

0 0 509.400

509.400

5871.74

44757.30

62039.161

2186.11

5773.39 16421.305

24380.80