Lok Sabha Question No. 632 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-06
Subject: Model Schools
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SULTAN  AHMED

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 632 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.02.2017

## Model Schools

## 632. SHRI SULTAN AHMED:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  has  deferred/shelved  the  proposal  to  set  up  Model  Schools  on Public Private Partnership model in Non-Educationally Backward Blocks across the country;
- (b) if so, the reasons therefor;
- (c) the number of Model schools that have become operational across the country including in the State of West Bengal, State/UT-wise; and
- (d) the details of Model Schools approved and amount sanctioned in the State of West Bengal?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

- (a) & (b) : The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Model School Scheme envisaged setting up of one model school per block as a benchmark of excellence at the block level. The scheme had two modes of implementation, viz. (i) setting up of schools in educationally backward blocks (EBBs)  through  State/UT  Governments,  and  (ii)  establishing  schools  under  Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode in blocks which are not educationally  backward. However, the scheme has been delinked from the support of the Government of India with effect from 2015-16 and stands  transferred  to  States/UTs  in  the  light  of  higher  devolution  of  funds  to  the  States  as recommended by the 14 th Finance Commission.

(c) : No schools have been awarded under PPP mode. However, under State Sector Component of the Model School Scheme, the State/UT-wise details of model schools which have been made operational as on 31.3.2015 is given at Annexure-I.

(d)  :    A  total  of  67  model  schools  were  approved  in  the  State  of  West  Bengal  for  which  an amount  of  Rs.  137.56  crore  was  sanctioned.  Detailed  year-wise  status  of  model  schools approved and amount sanctioned in the State of West Bengal is at Annexure-II.

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## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  632  FOR  06.02.2017  BY  SHRI  SULTAN  AMHED REGARDING MODEL SCHOOLS

## State/UT-wise details of model schools functional till the end of financial year 2014-15

| Sl. No.   | States         |   Operational Model Schools |
|-----------|----------------|-----------------------------|
| 1.        | Andhra Pradesh |                         163 |
| 2.        | Assam          |                          14 |
| 3.        | Chhattisgarh   |                          74 |
| 4.        | Gujarat        |                          84 |
| 5.        | Haryana        |                          36 |
| 6.        | Jharkhand      |                          89 |
| 7.        | Karnataka      |                          74 |
| 8.        | Madhya Pradesh |                         201 |
| 9.        | Maharashtra    |                          43 |
| 10.       | Punjab         |                          21 |
| 11.       | Rajasthan      |                          66 |
| 12.       | Tamil Nadu     |                          44 |
| 13.       | Telangana      |                         192 |
|           | Total          |                        1101 |

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (d)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  632  FOR  06.02.2017  BY  SHRI  SULTAN  AMHED REGARDING MODEL SCHOOLS

Model schools approved and amount sanctioned in the State of West Bengal

| Year    | No. of Model Schools approved   |   Amount sanctioned (Rs. in crore) |
|---------|---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| 2009-10 | 20                              |                               3.58 |
| 2010-11 | -                               |                              19.07 |
| 2012-13 | 16                              |                              18.57 |
| 2014-15 | 31                              |                              96.34 |
| Total   | 67                              |                             137.56 |