Lok Sabha Question No. 1339 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-11
Subject: Funds to Schemes
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: KIRTI (JHA) AZAD

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1339 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11 TH  FEBRUARY, 2019

## Funds to Schemes

## 1339.  SHRI KIRTI AZAD:

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

- (a) the  details  of  the  funds  released  to  Darbhanga  in  Bihar  under  various  schemes  of  the Ministry  for  betterment  of  both  school  level  and  higher  education  as  well  as  to  improve conditions of teaching and nonteaching staff;
- (b) whether  the  funds  released  under  the  said  schemes  have  been  utilized  under  the respective schemes;
- (c) if  so,  the  details  of  the  schemes  under  which  the  work  has  been  completed  or  is  near completion; and
- (d) the reasons for non-completion of the said works?;

## A N S W E R MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

( a ): Funds released under the schemes of the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development are as follows:

Samagra Shiksha :  Under the scheme, Central Government released funds to the States and UTs.  An amount of Rs 2557.97 crore was released to the State of Bihar in year 2017-18 under erstwhile  (Sarva  Shiksha  Abhiyan)  SSA.  The  State  has  utilized  Rs.  7330.08  Crore  (which includes  State  share).  Details  of  funds  received  by  DLO  Darbhanga  District  through  State Government are given below:

## Expenditure Details of DLO Darbhanga District

Rs. In Lakhs

| Financial Year   | Scheme          |   Opening Balance |   Fund Transfer |   Interest |   Total Fund Available |   Expenditure* |   Balance |
|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------|------------------------|----------------|-----------|
| 2017-18          | SSA             |            403.79 |        25836.3  |      72.96 |               26313.1  |       25126    |   1187.07 |
| 2017-18          | KGBV            |            120.66 |          435    |       3.12 |                 558.79 |         408.63 |    150.16 |
| 2017-18          | RMSA            |             44.74 |          445.88 |       2.49 |                 493.13 |         450.99 |     42.14 |
| 2017-18          | TOTAL           |            569.21 |        26717.2  |      78.58 |               27365    |       25985.6  |   1379.37 |
| 2018-19*         | Samagra Shiksha |           1229.21 |         8203.04 |      36.39 |                9468.65 |        3802.56 |   5666.09 |
| 2018-19*         | KGBV            |            150.16 |          215    |       2.1  |                 367.26 |         234.91 |    132.34 |
| 2018-19*         | Total           |           1379.37 |         8418.04 |      38.5  |                9835.92 |        4037.48 |   5798.44 |

Mid  Day  Meal: Under  the  Scheme,  funds  released  during  the  financial  years  2017-18  and 2018-19 are as under:

| Central Assistance released / allocated (Rs. In Crore)   | Central Assistance released / allocated (Rs. In Crore)   |
|----------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| 2017-18                                                  | 2018-19                                                  |
| 978.71                                                   | 1124.49                                                  |

National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS): Under the scheme, the scholarship  amount  Rs.  12000/-  per  year  is  provided  with  effect  from  1st  April,  2017.  Funds released during 2017-18 and 2018-19 are as under

|   S.No. | Financial Year   |   No. of Scholarships (Fresh + Renewals) |   Amount sanctioned (Rupees in Crore) |
|---------|------------------|------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|       1 | 2017-18          |                                    29540 |                                 17.72 |
|       2 | 2018-19          |                                     6467 |                                  6.55 |

National  Scheme  of  Incentive  to  Girls  for  Secondary  Education  (NSIGSE): Under  the scheme, a sum of Rs.3000/- is deposited in the name of eligible unmarried girls as fixed deposit on enrolment in class IX, who are entitled to withdraw it along with interest thereon reaching on 18 years of age and passing class 10 th examination. The Indian Bank and Union Bank of India are the implementing agencies for the scheme. The scheme is covered under the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Scheme. The scheme is on National Scholarship Portal.

The details  of  the  funds  released  under  National  Scheme  of  Incentive  to  Girls  for  Secondary Education (NSIGSE) during 2017-18 and 2018-19:

|   S.No. | Financial Year   |   No. of Beneficiaries |   Amount sanctioned (Rs. in Crore) |
|---------|------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------|
|       1 | 2017-18          |                  39190 |                              11.76 |
|       2 | 2018-19          |                   8443 |                               2.53 |

Saakshar Bharat  Programme : Under this programme, grant was released to State Government directly  and  not  the  district  level  authorities.  An  amount  of  Rs.380.32  crore  has been released from 2009-10 to 2017-18 to Bihar.

Support  is  given  to  State  Governments  and  UT  Administrations  on  several  interventions  to improve teaching standards, including inter alia; regular in-service teachers' training, induction training for newly recruited teachers, training on ICT Component, Inclusive Education, Gender Sensitization  and  Adolescent  Education  and  remedial  teaching  for  academically  weaker students and for strengthening of teacher education institutions.

Educations being in the Concurrent List of the Constitution, a majority of the schools are under the jurisdiction of respective States and Union Territories (UT). Hence, the recruitment, service conditions  and  redeployment  of  teachers  are  primarily  in  the  domain  of  respective  State Governments and UT Administrations. The Central Government has been consistently pursuing the matter of expeditious recruitment and redeployment of teachers with the States and UTs at various fora.  Advisories  on  this  issue  have  also  been  issued  to  States  and  UTs  from  time  to time.

(b) to (d): Yes  Madam.  As  regards  Samagra  Shiksha,  details  are  attached  as Annexure . Mid  Day  Meal  has  been  provided  to  all  children  studying  in  Classes  I-VIII  of  Government, Government-Aided, Special Training Centres including Madarsas and Maqtabs supported under Samagra Shiksha. As regards National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS), the funds  are  not  released  to  State  and  are  released  to  State  Bank  of  India,  New  Delhi  which disburses the scholarship amount directly into the students' bank accounts following DBT mode. Under the scheme National Scheme of Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education (NSIGSE), the funds are not released to State and are released to Union Bank of India for the NSIGSE scheme  account.    The  bank  makes  maturity  payments  to  eligible  girls.  Under  the  Saakshar Bharat  Scheme,  a  total  of  1,54,23,456  learners  have  been  certified  against  the  target  of 1,47,66,427 learners in the State of Bihar.

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ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  ( b ) to ( d )  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  1339  TO  BE  ANSWERED  ON  11.02.2019  ASKED  BY SHRI KIRTI AZAD REGARDING FUNDS TO SCHEMES

Scheme of SSA/Samagra Shiksha (as reported by Darbhanga District as on 31.12.2018)

| Sl. No.   | Particular              |   Target |   Completed |   Progress |   Not Started/ Not taken up |   %of Compl. | Major Reason                      |
|-----------|-------------------------|----------|-------------|------------|-----------------------------|--------------|-----------------------------------|
| 1.        | ACR                     |    10272 |        9801 |        214 |                         257 |        95.41 | land dispute / VSS dispute        |
| 2.        | NSB                     |      566 |         441 |          8 |                         117 |        77.92 | Non availability of adequate land |
| 3.        | Toilet                  |     2649 |        2649 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| 4         | HMR                     |       30 |          30 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| 5.        | Drinking Water Facility |      297 |         297 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| 6.        | Disable Friendly Toilet |      500 |         500 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| 7.        | KGBV                    |       18 |          18 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| 8.        | Ramps                   |      555 |         555 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| 9.        | Kitchen Shed            |      168 |         168 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| 10.       | Major Repair            |       11 |           0 |          0 |                          11 |         0    | Likely to be started              |
| 11.       | BLS                     |       94 |          94 |          0 |                           0 |       100    |                                   |
| Total     | Total                   |    15160 |       14553 |        222 |                         385 |        96    |                                   |

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