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1st HALF YEARLY MONITORING REPORT OF SARDAR

PATEL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH

(SPIESR),

ON RASHTRIYA MADHYAMIK SIKSHA ABHIYAN (RMSA)

FOR THE STATE OF GUJARAT (1st July 2013 to 31st December 2013)

DISTRICTS COVERED

1. KHEDA

2. ANAND

3. PATAN

By Dr. Tattwamasi Paltasingh

Sardar Patel Institute of Economic & Social Research, Ahmedabad

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Dated: 14/03/2014

To,

Mr. Ramakant Barua

Sr. Consultant, M&S

EdCIL (India Limited)

RMSA , EdCL’s Technical Support Group (TSG)

Vijaya Building, 6th

Floor, 17, Barakhamba Road,

New Delhi-110001

Sub: Submission of 1st Half Yearly Monitoring Report of RMSA (1st July 2013 to 31st

December 2013)

Dear Sir,

Kindly find enclosed copy of the 1st Half Yearly Monitoring Report of Sardar Patel Institute

of Economic and Social Research (SPIESR), Ahmedabad on RMSA for the period 1st July

2013 to 31st December 2013.

This is the final report, based on the information collected from 3 districts of Gujarat i.e.

Kheda, Anand and Patan. The Monitoring Institute has followed the prescribed format (tools)

and ToR issued by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) for the said period.

The receipt of the report may kindly be acknowledged.

With regards,

(Dr. Tattwamasi Paltasingh)

Associate Professor,

Nodal Officer (Monitoring RMSA, Gujarat)

Mobile-09428357480

E-mail: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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CONTENTS

S. No. Details Page No.

Preface and Acknowledgement 5

General/First page Information 6-7

Introduction & Background Information 8-16

Consolidated Summary/Executive Summary of all the District Reports of

RMSA 17-29

Chapter 1 District Level Half Yearly Monitoring Report for District-1: Kheda

1. Planning & Implementation

2. Access (Physical Access, Social Access, Open Schooling, Out of School

Children)

3. Equity (General Information, Girls’ Education)

4. Guidance and Counseling

5. Quality (Enabling conditions, Teaching learning process, Teachers’ training)

6. Civil Works (General Information. Design, Schools with ongoing

construction activity)

7. Community Mobilization/ Participation

8. MIS (Management Information System)

9. Financial Management

10. School Annual Grant

11. Minor Repair Grant

12. Innovations

13. Management/Monitoring/Evaluation & Research (Staffing pattern,

Monitoring strategy, Management systems, State Database, Research)

14. Other Issues Relevant to RMSA Implementation

Annexure 1.1 Visited School List of Kheda District

Annexure 1.2 Copy of Office Order, Notification, etc.: Kheda District

Annexure 1.3.1 Statement Showing School Wise School Annual Grant: Kheda

Annexure 1.3.2 Statement Showing School Wise Excursion Grant: Kheda

Annexure 1.4 Selected photographs of RMSA Schools : Kheda District

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Chapter 2 District Level Half Yearly Monitoring Report for District-II: Anand



Children)




6. Civil Works (General Information. Design, Schools with ongoing construction

activity)




82-129

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12. Innovations




Annexure 2.1 Visited School List of Anand District

Annexure 2.2 Copy of Office Order, Notification, etc.: Anand District

Annexure 2.3 Selected photographs of Anand District

Chapter 3 District Level Half Yearly Monitoring Report for District-III: Patan



Children)




6. Civil Works (General Information, Design, Schools with ongoing construction

activity)






12. Innovations




Annexure 3.1 Visited School List of Patan District

Annexure 3.2 Copy of Office Order, Notification, etc.: Patan District

Annexure 3.3 Selected photographs of Patan District

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Over all Suggestions & Recommendation in all 3 districts 178-179

Annexure A: Sample Table : Block wise schools covered in visited districts 180

Annexure-B: Details of persons contacted for field visit at State level 180

Annexure C: Details of persons contacted for field visit at District level 180

Annexure-D : Financial Status as on 30th Sept, 2013- State Level 181

Annexure-E: Staffing pattern with designation & filled in position at State level 181

Annexure -F: Annual Grant (District Wise ) Circular from RMSA, State Office 182

Annexure-G: List of Abbreviations 183

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P r e f a c e a n d A c k n o w l e d g e m e n t

A large number of children in India after completing the Primary Education do not attend the

secondary schools. In order to meet the challenge of Universalisation of Secondary Education

(USE), there is a need for a paradigm shift in the conceptual design of secondary education.

Universalisation of Secondary Education gives opportunity, to move towards equity. The

country has made big strides during last six decades in the field of school education by

focusing more on universalization of quality elementary education through a number of

experimental, micro and macro level initiatives. It may be noted that till recently there was no

country wide programme available that focuses on development of secondary education.

Keeping this in view, the Nation has launched Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan

(RMSA) in March 2009 with vision to make good quality education available, accessible and

affordable to all young persons in the age of 14-18 years. Planning for the process oriented

social sector programme and appraisal of such programme proposals at the district and state

levels is a challenging task.

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education & Literacy has

given us this opportunity to carry out the monitoring work in different districts of Gujarat. On

behalf of my Institute I am thankful to the funding agency i.e MHRD for giving this

responsibility. I express my sincere thanks to Shri Sanjay Gupta, Under Secretary, RMSA,

New Delhi for his support. I am thankful to Shri Ramakant Barua, Senior Consultant (M &S),

RMSA New Delhi, for his support throughout. At State level I am thankful to Shri Mukesh

Kumar, IAS, State Project Director (SPD), RMSA and earlier Director Shri C.V. Som, for

extending their kind support at every stage. I am thankful to the District Education Officer,

Kheda, Mr. M.S. Achraya, Anand, Mr. K.A. Patel and Patan, Mr. N.K.Makwana for

extending their required support. Mr. Vijay Patel, Project Coordinator (Monitoring &

Evaluation) and Ms. Prarthanaben Mehta, Project Coordinator, RMSA, deserve special thanks

for their consistent support. I am thankful to the school teachers and principals and all the

staff of RMSA at different schools visited by the team members of the Monitoring Institute

(MI) who have contributed in obtaining the relevant information. Each of them has spent

adequate time to provide relevant information to the monitoring team. All the District

Coordinators have helped in providing relevant information. I am thankful to a number of

people who have contributed in successful completion of the Report.

I am thankful to our Vice-Chairman Prof. Y.K Alagh for his encouragement. Director &

other staff members have extended their kind co-operation. I express my sincere thanks to Dr.

Renu Tyagi for her involvement throughout, Mr. Faeem Shaikh for typing and formatting,

Mr. Arvind Kumar Bhatu for data entry & other field investigators for the tiring field work.

The field investigators have helped in collecting relevant data from different Blocks &

Schools. I am thankful to all staff at our Institute in the relevant departments for their sincere

support.

(Dr. Tattwamasi Paltasingh)

Associate Professor, SPIESR, Ahmedabad,

Nodal Officer for Monitoring RMSA, Gujarat

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First Page Information General Information

S.

N

Information Details

1. Period of the report 1st July 2013 to 31st December 2013

2. No. of Districts allotted 03

3. Districts’ name Kheda, Anand, Patan

4.

Month of visit to the Districts/Schools (information is to be given District wise:

Name of the District

Date of visit to Schools

District 1: Kheda

25.11.13 to 27.11.13 & 02.12.13 to 07.12.13



District 2: Anand

27.11.13 to 28.11.13 & 02.12.13 to 07.12.13



District 3: Patan

28.11.13 to 29.11.13 & 02.12.13 to 07.12.13

5.

Total number of Schools (sampled

secondary higher secondary)

existing in the District (Information

is to be given District wise i.e.

District 1, District 2, District 3)

S.N District

Type of Schools

Old Govt.

School

RMSA

Sec.

School

Total

1. Kheda 08 09 17

2. Anand 02 10 12

3. Patan 09 05 14

Total 19 24 43

6.

No. of Sec./Hr. Secondary Schools

monitored (Secondary and Hr. Sec.

to be counted separately)

Information is to be given for

District wise i.e. District 1, District

2, District 3 etc.)

There is one Hr. Secondary School in Anand district and one in

Patan district. The standard wise detail is attached along with each

district Report.

S.N District

Type of Schools

Old

Govt.

School

RMSA

Sec.

School

Total

1. Kheda 08 09 17

2. Anand 02 10 12

3. Patan 09 05 14

Total 19 24 43

7. Types of School visited No. of Schools

Types of School visited Kheda Anand Patan

a) Schools with Urban

Deprived students

0 0 1

b) School sanctioned with

Civil Works

09 10 05

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c) Schools having CWSN 05 04 05

d) School with higher gender-

gap

8 7 6

e) SC/ST/Minority as major

habitants

1 1 3

f) Low academic

achievement

7 6 4

g) Seasonal Migration 0 0 0

h) Forest/Mountain ,desert

area School

1 0 0

i) Disaster Affected Schools 1 3 7

j) School with low

retention/higher drop out/

Out of School Student

3 8 09

k) School with hostel facility 0 0 0

l) Total School Monitored 17 12 14

8. Number of Schools visited by Nodal

Officer of the Monitoring Institute

About 40% of the schools in each district

9. Whether the draft report has been

shared with the Commissioner:

YES/NO

Draft report has been sent to State RMSA Office

10. After submission of the draft report

to the Commissioner, whether the

MI has received any comments:

YES/NO

No

11. Before sending the reports to the

GOI whether the MI has shared the

report with Commissioner RMSA:

YES/NO

No

12. Selection criteria for Schools. All schools are covered as mentioned in the above table

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Introduction & Background Information

Universalisation of elementary education has become a Constitutional mandate that has

further moved towards Universalisation of secondary education. The National Policy on

Education (NPE), 1986 (modified in 1992) also emphasises on the Secondary Education.

Against this backdrop the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) was launched in

March, 2009 with an objective to enhance access to secondary education and to improve its

quality. RMSA is the first large scale intervention for universalizing access to and quality of

secondary education covering the socio-economic and ecological variations as well as people

from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds. It is envisaged to achieve an enrolment

rate of 75% from 52.26% in 2005-06 at secondary stage within 5 years of implementation of

the scheme. The other objectives include improving quality of education imparted at

secondary level through making all secondary schools confirm to prescribed norms, removing

gender, socio-economic and disability barriers, providing universal access to secondary level

education by 2017, i.e., by the end of 12th Five Year Plan and achieving universal retention

by 2020. The planning interventions at different levels and appraising the same have to be

undertaken with utmost care and skill. In the initial years, the secondary education

development plans have been developed on the basis of the common understanding

developed by the states in various consultative meetings/workshops of the MHRD,

Government of India and several short term training programmes. However, according to the

framework for implementation of the RMSA, secondary education development plans need to

be developed at the revenue district level, mostly drawing from the secondary school

improvement plans. Therefore, it has been felt that there is a need for developing a manual

for planning and appraisal of secondary education under the RMSA basically to facilitate

creation of the individual and organizational capacity.

VISION of RMSA:

The vision for secondary education is to make good quality education available, accessible

and affordable to all young persons in the age group of 14-16 years. Keeping these into

consideration the following objectives are to be achieved:

To provide a secondary school within a reasonable distance of any habitation. The

distance should be 5 kilometre for secondary schools and 7-10 kilometres for higher

secondary schools.

Ensure universal access of secondary education by 2017 (GER of 100%), and

Universal retention by 2020.

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Provide access to secondary education with special references to economically

weaker sections of the society, the educationally backward, the girls and the

disabled children residing in rural areas and other marginalized categories like

SC, ST, OBC and Educationally Backward Minorities (EBM).

The challenges in planning secondary education under RMSA attributed to its unique features

including addressing itself to emerging educational needs of children coming from varied

socio-economic, educational and cultural backgrounds and helping them in continuing higher

education as well as entering to the world of work. The RMSA envisages greater role of

communities, PRIs and other stake holders in all aspects of planning and implementation of

activities, devolution of authorities and decentralization of management. Therefore a very

pragmatic and scientific approach is needed in development and appraisal of district and state

level secondary education plans developed under RMSA. It is a challenging task to build the

capacity of the planning teams constituted at the state and district levels for planning and

management of the secondary education in their respective areas under RMSA programme.

In the Eleventh Five Year Plan the Government of India had given lot of emphasis on

development of secondary education. The allocation for this sector has been increased many

fold in Eleventh plan as compared to the allocations made on the Tenth Five Year Plan.

Among several centrally sponsored schemes launched in the country for the development of

secondary education the highest allocation has been made to the RMSA programme.

Major monitoring components of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) report

include physical and social access to school, out of School Children, Drop Out Children of

14-16 Yrs., gender gaps in enrollment, attendance, & achievement of children, girls

Education, guidance and counseling, quality involving enabling conditions including

number of classroom, availability of library, Integrated Science and Maths, teachers’

availability, teaching learning process, classroom management, CWSN, participation of

CWSN, peers interaction with CWSN, ICT devices used for teaching & learning for the

CWSN, frequency of Resource Teacher (RT) visits in the school, facilities for CWSN,

teacher’s training and civil works etc. This also aims to cover the general Information of

school design, drinking water facility, sanitation facility, drainage system, waste treatment

water & energy conservation, safety aspects of building design, community mobilization,

planning, implementation & management

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Map of Gujarat

Information System (MIS), financial management, school grants details, strengths of school

and the problems observed in school.

Kheda: District Profile

Kheda is located at the centre of Gujarat, covered by the districts Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar,

Sabarkantha, Panchmahal, Vadodara and Anand. Kheda includes 9 blocks i.e. Kheda, Matar,

Mehmdavad, Mahudha, Kathlal, Kapadwanj, Thasra, Balasinor and Virpur. In 2011, Kheda

had population of 2,299,885 of which male and female population was 1,185,727 and

1,114,158 respectively. There was change of 13.62 percent in the population compared to

population as per 2001 census. The population density of Kheda district for 2011 is 582

people per sq. km. In 2001, it was 479 people per sq. km. Average literacy rate of Kheda in

2011 was 82.65 compared to 71.96 as per 2001 Census. The male and female literacy rate is

91.31 and 73.49 per cent respectively during 2011. However, as per 2001 census, these

figures stood at 85.99 and 56.90 in the district.

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Map of Kheda District

Total literate in Kheda District were 1,660,243 of which male and female were 942,480 and

717,763 respectively. The sex ratio in Kheda stood at 940 per 1000 males in 2011 whereas it

was 923 as per 2001 census. The average national sex ratio in India is 940 as per 2011

census. As per 2011 census, the child sex ratio is 896 girls per 1000 boys as compared to the

876 girls per 1000 boys as per 2001 census. In 2011, the children under 0-6 years formed

12.66 percent of Kheda district as compared to 14.64 percent in 2001 census.

Out of the total Kheda population for 2011 census, 22.77 percent lives in urban regions of the

district. Sex Ratio in urban region of Kheda district is 935 as per 2011 census. Average

literacy rate in urban regions of the district as per census 2011 is 86.72 % of which males and

females are 92.08 % and 81.06 % literates respectively. As per 2011 census, 77.23 %

population of Kheda districts lives in rural areas. In rural areas of Kheda district, sex ratio is

941 females per 1000 males. The child sex ratio of Kheda district is 903 girls per 1000 boys.

Literacy rate in rural areas of Kheda district is 81.42 % as per census data 2011. Gender wise,

male and female literacy stood at 91.08 and 71.22 percent respectively.

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Table 1 Demographic Profile of Kheda District

Description 2011 2001

Actual Population 2,299,885 2,024,216

Male 1,185,727 1,052,823

Female 1,114,158 971,393

Population Growth 13.62% 13.32%

Area Sq. Km 3,953 3,953

Density/km2 582 479

Proportion to Gujarat Population 3.81% 3.99%

Sex Ratio (Per 1000) 940 923

Child Sex Ratio (0-6 Age) 896 876

Average Literacy 82.65 71.96

Male Literacy 91.31 85.99

Female Literacy 73.49 56.90

Total Child Population (0-6 Age) 291,133 296,430

Male Population (0-6 Age) 153,591 158,032

Female Population (0-6 Age) 137,542 138,398

Literates 1,660,243 1,243,363

Male Literates 942,480 769,426

Female Literates 717,763 473,937

Child Proportion (0-6 Age) 12.66% 14.64%

Boys Proportion (0-6 Age) 12.95% 15.01%

Girls Proportion (0-6 Age) 12.34% 14.25%

Source: Census 2001 and 2011

Anand: District Profile

Anand is located at east north in Gujarat surrounded by four districts Ahmedabad, Kheda,

Vadodara and Bharuch. It includes 8 blocks viz Anand, Umreth, Petlad, Sojitra, Borsad,

Anklav, Khambhat & Tarapur. In 2011, Anand had population of 2,092,745 of which male

and female population was 1,087,224 and 1,005,521 respectively. In 2001 census, Anand

had a population of 1,856,872 of which males were 972,000 and remaining 884,872 were

females. There was change of 12.70 percent in the population compared to population as per

2001. In the 2001 census, Anand district recorded an increase of 13.04 percent as compared

to 1991. The density of Anand district for 2011 is 653 people per sq. km however; in 2001 it

was 631 people per sq. km.

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Map of Anand District

Average literacy rate of Anand in 2011 was 84.37 as compared to 74.51 as per 2001 census.

The male and female literacy is 91.82 and 76.36 respectively as per 2011 Census. However,

the male and female literacy stood at 86.09 and 61.94 as per 2001 census. With regards to

Sex Ratio in Anand, it stood at 925 per 1000 male in 2011 as compared to 2001 census figure

of 910. As per 2011 census, the child sex ratio is 884 girls per 1000 boys as compared to 849

girls per 1000 boys in 2001 census. In 2011, children under 0-6 constitutes 12.14 percent in

Anand District as compared to 13.75 percent during 2001 census.

Table 2 Demographic Profile of Anand District



Male 1,087,224 972,000

Female 1,005,521 884,872


Area Sq. Km 3,204 3,204

Density/km2 653 631


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Sex Ratio (Per 1000) 925 910








Literates 1,551,253 1,193,404





Girls Proportion (0-6 Age) 11.85% 13.24%

As per the census record, it can be seen, that the population of female in Anand district has

increased in last decade and the literacy level among female has also improved. However,

there is a decrease in number of girl children. The dropout rates have lowered since last 2

years due to some approaches like inclusion of ‘Remedial teaching center’. The N.P.E.G.E.L.

block in Anand includes 3 clusters viz Anand-1, Anand-2, and Bakrol. Girl children were

encouraged for continuing school education with the help of aid given by UNICEF and also

rewarding selected school. Hence, school authorities and teachers are guided to encourage

parents as well as girl children about the importance of elementary and secondary education.

Other approach taken up for the encouraging girl towards education includes vocational

training, self-defence training etc. Health programme are developed for all the children which

includes an availability of PHC (Primary Health Center) for every 30,000 population.

Patan: District Profile

District Patan is located at northern part of Gujarat state sharing borders with Banaskantha

District to the North and Mehsana district to the East. It includes 7 blocks viz Patan,

Siddhpur, Chansma, Harij, Sami, Santalpur, & Radhanpur. In 2011, Patan had population of

1,343,734 of which male and female population was 694,397 and 649,337 respectively.

However, in 2001 census, Patan had a population of 1,182,709 of which males were 612,100

and remaining 570,609 were females. There was change of 13.61 percent in 2011 in the

district population as compared to the 2001 census enumeration. However, in the previous

decade i.e. 1991-2001, the district recorded an increase of 14.16 percent in its population.

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Map of Patan District

The density of Patan district for 2011 is 232 people per sq. km. Average literacy rate of Patan

in 2011 was 72.30 as compared to 60.36 of 2001. Male and female literacy were 82.90 and

61.05 respectively. For 2001 census, same figures stood at 73.63 and 46.33 in Patan District.

Total literate in Patan district were 837,913 of which male and female were 494,631 and

343,282 respectively. With regards to Sex Ratio in Patan, it stood at 935 per 1000 male in

2011 as compared to figure of 932 as per 2001 census. The average national sex ratio in India

is 940 as per latest reports of 2011 Census. In 2011 census, child sex ratio in Patan district is

890 girls per 1000 boys as compared to figure of 865 girls per 1000 boys as per 2001 census.

There were total 184,779 children under age of 0-6 against 190,192 of 2001 census. Of total

184,779 the male and female were 97,762 and 87,017 respectively. Child Sex Ratio as per

census 2011 was 890 as compared to 865 in census 2001. In 2011, children under 0-6 formed

13.75 percent of Patan district as compared to 16.08 percent of 2001. Out of the total Patan

population for 2011 census, 20.92 percent lives in urban regions of district. In total 281,081

people lives in urban areas of which males are 146,073 and females are 135,008. Sex Ratio in

urban region of Patan district is 924 as per 2011 census data. Similarly child sex ratio in

Patan district was 862 in 2011 census. Child population (0-6) in urban region was 31,768 of

which males and females were 17,057 and 14,711. This child population figure of Patan

district is 11.68 % of total urban population.

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Table 3 Demographic Profile of Patan District



Male 694,397 612,100

Female 649,337 570,609


Area Sq. Km 5,792 5,792

Density/km2 232 206


Sex Ratio (Per 1000) 935 932








Literates 837,913 599,082





Source: Original data sheet -Census-2011

Average literacy rate in Patan district as per census 2011 is 83.15 % of which the literacy rate

of males and females are 89.96 % and 75.84 % respectively. In actual number 207,296 people

are literate in urban region of which males and females are 116,061 and 91,235 respectively.

As per 2011 census, 79.08 % population of Patan districts lives in rural areas. The total Patan

district population living in rural areas is 1,062,653 of which males and females are 548,324

and 514,329 respectively. In rural areas of Patan district, the sex ratio is 938 females per 1000

males. The child sex ratio of Patan district is 896 girls per 1000 boys. Child population in the

0-6 age group is 153,011 in rural areas of which males were 80,705 and females were

72,306. The child population comprises 14.72 % of total rural population of Patan district.

Literacy rate in rural areas of Patan district is 69.33 % as per census data 2011. Gender wise,

male and female literacy stood at 80.96 and 57.02 percent respectively. In total, 630,617

people were literate of which males and females literates were 378,570 and 252,047

respectively.

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Consolidated /Executive Summary of all District Reports of RMSA

Executive Summary: District 1- Kheda

1.

Planning

&

Impleme

ntation

Overview / Observation

2 Access

Factors

None of the children are coming from distance of more than 5 kms in any of the RMSA

school. In most of the visited schools there is no natural or man-made barrier that poses any

problem for the children in accessing the school. However, the Old Government School

Nanavaga is located in flood prone area and RMSA Secondary School, Bor, is located in

remote area without adequate transport facility. In both the schools the physical access to

school poses challenges for the children.

The share of SC, ST, Minority and Girl children in enrollment is proportionate to their share

in population of neighborhood habitation. There is no major variation in the pattern of

attendance in respect of SC, ST, Minority, Girl children, and children from economically

weak background. No overt or covert, manifest or subtle, discrimination against children of

any social group or community by the teachers or peers is observed in any of the visited

school. The overall conditions prevalent in school facilitate access of CWSN to secondary

schools like ramp with a handrail at entrance or at drinking water are found in few schools.

In some schools with CWSN the ramp is found to be of poor quality. However in case of

new RMSA schools the ramps belong to the existing Govt. UPS & the RMSA schools are

temporarily managed till the time the new school building is constructed.

3 Equity

Measures

Gender gap in enrolment is found in 08 schools out of the total 17 schools. Gender gap in

enrollment as well as in attendance were reported due to various reasons like socio-cultural

reasons, child marriage in some instances, child labour, household responsibilities of girls at

home including younger sibling care. There are no female teachers appointed in eleven

visited schools which could have been one of the factors for the gender gap in enrollment

and attendance. In few schools the school teachers meet the parents and counsel them to send

their daughters to school. The in-service teachers’ training also includes some components

addressing the gender gap. There is no separate hostel or security facility in any of the

RMSA schools. However, there is provision of KGBV school under SSA which have

enrolled most of the out of school /drop out children that has an impact on enrolment,

attendance and learning achievement of girls. There is one KGBV in Kheda district. After

passing out from the KGBV some of the girls are enrolled in the nearby RMSA schools.

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Guidance

&

Counselli

ng

Infrastru

cture

There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school level in any of the visited

schools under RMSA. One Counselor for 3 districts is appointed for guidance & counseling.

For Kheda district, the counselor is appointed at Vadodra district office and he visits Kheda,

Anand and Vadodra. The counselor is expected to cover 12 schools per month. Counselling

is required for the children due to the problems related to absence of subject teachers

especially mathematics and science teachers, gender bias among some of the parents, drop

out and absentiesm due to indulgence in child labour during specific season. But the

conseling is not taking place due to unavailability of counseling cells.

5 Quality

Interven

tions

i. Enabling conditions: In all new RMSA schools the class rooms are adjusted with the

existing Govt. UPS where RMSA & SSA run schools are managed together. Two classrooms

are available for most of the visited schools & in new RMSA schools these rooms belong to

Govt. UPSs. The blackboard in all visited RMSA schools is centrally located. The number of

desks was found to be insufficient for children in 2 schools. There is no ICT devices used for

teaching purpose in the classroom in 13 visited schools due to absence of computer facility.

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There is no Art/ Craft room found in any of the visited school. The number of working days

during the last academic year is ranged between 237-245 days. None of the schools are

closed for a longer period apart from the allotted vacation during Deewali & suumer

vacation. Teacher for each class is found to be available in 14 schools out of 17 visited

schools. Three schools did not have teacher for each class. There is no science and

mathematics teacher in 10 RMSA schools which is found to be a major problem in this

district. The school principal arranges subject teachers from other schools as per their

availability to complete the course curriculum.

ii. Teaching learning process:

The teacher’s diary with curriculum delivery and lesson plan is found to be maintained by

the teachers in 15 schools. The teacher’s diary was found to be countersigned by the

Principal though not on regular basis. The prescribed time table is found to be available and

followed by the teachers in 16 visited schools. Extra classes for academically weaker

students are found to be organized in 10 schools. Most of the schools are following grading

method for evaluation. Eleven children with special needs (CWSN) are found in five schools

and all CWSN students are found to be participative in class room activities. The peer

interaction with CWSN was found to be either friendly or neutral in all the visited schools.

Onsite academic support to the teachers is found to be given in only 5 schools. None of the

school has prepared any Individualized Educational Plan (IEPs) for CWSN. The ICT devices

are not used in any of the schools with CWSN.

iii. Teachers’ training: In-Service training of teachers was found in all the schools. The

training modules are found to be need based in most of the schools. Training is found to be

given by the KRPs (College teachers, High school teachers and DEO). Training module is

found to be need based by the teachers in 6 schools. The regular training received by the

teachers does not include training to deal with CWSN. Limited numbers of teachers have

availed 2 day IED training at the block level which is found to be inadequate to handle the

CWSN. Training facilities (i.e. separate room for training, projector etc) are not found to be

available in any of the school except one school. Use of technologies like computer assisted

learning ( CAL) by teachers in class room teaching is not found in 15 visited schools.

6

Civil

works

Progress

(w.r.t.

construc

tion)

Construction of school building is required for all the 9 new RMSA schools. But the land has

been allotted for only 6 schools, but the construction work has not yet started. For 3 schools

the land allotment is still pending. All new RMSA schools are working in the Govt. UPS

campus with one classroom each for IXth and X

th standard. All the schools visited by the MI

have ramp facilities. However, the ramps are not found to be available in all the places in the

visited schools (i.e. at entrance of the school, near drinking water facility, toilets facility,

laboratory, library, auditorium, and playground). Only 6 schools are found with urinals for

boys and girls with door and roof. Six schools do not have toilet facility. In most of the

schools, the toilet and urinal facility is found to be insufficient to cater to the need of the

children enrolled in the school. Two schools do not have separate toilets for boys and girls.

There is no special provision of toilets for physically challenged students in any of the

RMSA School. Fire extinguishers are available in all the schools. In most of schools (12

schools) it is installed in HM room or/staff room. School authorities are reported to be

trained for using the fire extinguishers in case of eventuality. The contact numbers

for Ambulance & fire brigade is found to be available in 8 schools and contact number of

nearest hospital is found in 7 schools. However, in none of the schools these numbers are

displayed on school wall or notice board. None of the school has alternative power supply

facility. None of the new RMSA schools have science laboratory & library facility. Three

schools do not have drinking water facility. Three schools with water facility are found with

unsafe drinking water due to high salt contents. In 9 schools the number of taps is found to

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be insufficient to cater to the need of the children. None of the schools are found to have

facility for treatment and composing of organic waste & rain water harvesting facility. Fire

extinguishers are available in 04 school and all are in working condition. There is no disaster

preparedness plan & emergency evacuation plan available in any of the visited school.

7

Commu

nity

Mobiliza

tion/Part

icipation

The SMDC meeting is held quarterly in 5 schools, monthly in 8 schools & yearly in 2

schools & no meeting has been conducted in 2 schools. In 13 schools the proceedings record

is found to be maintained. The SMDC members used to monitor the teachers’ and students’

attendance though not regularly. No record for the same was found in the schools. The

SMDC members are not found to be familiar with their roles & responsibilities as notified by

the state Government in 5 schools. In most of the schools the SMDC members are not found

to be familiar with the SEMIS data captures format & school report card. The SMDC

members including HM and senior teachers in 3 schools have received one day training

focusing school development plan and preparation of AWP&B which was reported to be

inadequate.

8

MIS

(Manage

ment

Informat

ion

System)

Backup of data supplied under SEMIS is properly maintained by five schools. The

SEMIS/UDISE data is found to be used for planning and budgeting in most of the schools.

In six schools the DCF is found to be unavailable for current year 2013-14 as the DCF forms

of these new RMSA schools are collected & retained with the staff of district education

office (DEO) due to ongoing sample check.

9

Financia

l

Manage

ment

The common mode of transfer of funds to SMDC from state/ district level was found to be

the e-transfer. In this district 09 schools have received the school annual grant. The HM and

one of the senior teachers were found to be the common drawing and disbursing authority in

all the Old Government schools. The SMDC is found to be covered by the audit in seven

schools. Three schools are found with instances of community mobilized resources for

schools. Financial registers such as cashbook and pass book were found to be available,

though not maintained and updated in most of the Old Government schools. None of the

schools have displayed financial information on the notice boards/School wall. In all new

RMSA secondary schools the funds are managed by the DEO/Office and not by the SMDC.

In none of the visited schools the audit observations were found to be shared with the

community. No social auditing was reported for any of the visited school.

10

School

Annual

Grant

Out of the total visited schools, 09 schools are found to receive school annual grant in April

2013. However, this grant was the pending amount for the year 2012-13. No grant has been

received for the financial year 2013-14 from MHRD. Most of the new RMSA schools do not

have the record about date of receiving annual grant. In these schools the funds and their

utilization is managed by district RMSA Office/DEO. The school principal doesn’t have the

access to the funds as the schools are running in the government upper primary schools

(UPSs). However, some of the Old Government Schools have utilized the grants as per

norms.

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Minor

Repair

Grant

None of the new RMSA schools have received the minor repair grant in current year as they

do not have their own building.

12 Innovati

ons/ Best

Practices

None of the visited school is found to have prepared any innovative proposals during the

current financial year at both DEO and state level

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(A) Management /Monitoring/Evaluation and Research (MMER) (State Level Information)

Status of Posts Monitoring

Strategy

Status of

Institutional

Mechanism

Research &

Evaluation

Sanct

ioned

In-

position SCERT

20

15 12

Monitoring format (Surprise Visit Form) has been

developed at the State level for district visit. The

surprise visit from covers various components like

basic information of the school, teachers information,

physical facilities, education related activities,ICT

School project, review of different Educational

Committees, Classrooms, result of last 5 years and

analysis of different work done using different

school grants. Each co-coordinator is expected to

visit the school at least 3 times in a month. The visit

includes the DEO of the concerned district. Monthly

review meeting is carried out at the state level in the

presence of all the coordinators.

SCERT (known

as GCERT in

Gujarat) is not

directly

involved in

RMSA

activities

Nil (Yet to

begin; grant has

been proposed in

the AWP&B)

(B) Management /Monitoring/Evaluation and Research (MMER) (District Level Information)

Sl.

Name

of

Distric

t

Status of Posts Monitoring

Strategy

Status of Institutional

Mechanism Research

&

Evaluati

on

San

ctio

ned

In- position District level SCERT DIET

DEO/

DPO

Office

1 Kheda 02

pos

t

02 (01 district

coordinator & 01

Computer

operator).

One Counselor

for 3 districts is

appointed.

The district

coordinator is

expected to visit

2 schools per

week.The visit

of the DEO is

occasional & as

per the need.

SCERT

is not

directly

involved

in

RMSA

activities

DIET is

not

directly

involved

in

RMSA

activities

RMSA

activities in

the district

is managed

by the

DEO &

concerned

staff

Nil (Yet

to begin;

grant has

been

proposed

in the

AWP&B)

14

Any other

issues/

Major

Findings

Open Schooling: The Gujarat State Open School (GSOS) is established at the state level.

However, it is not directly linked with the RMSA. The GSOS conducts examination for class

Xth and XIIth. It has total 416 study centers all over Gujarat and 17 study centres in Kheda

district.

Drop Out Children: Thirty seven children from 3 schools were found to be the drop out

children. In some of the schools HMs have contacted parents and counseled them to bring

these children back to the school. As per the school record the drop out children has taken

admission in another school however, no record of the same was found at the school level.

Infrastructure: None of the new RMSA secondary Schools have their own building. They

are functioning in Government Upper primary Schools (UPS). In this situation both the

schools face problem accommodating entire students, teacher etc. Lack of own school

building is found to be the major problems faced by the school students and the teachers. The

staff and students of the new RMSA schools do not feel any belongingness. They keep

thinking that they would be shifted any moment and this is a temporary arrangement for

them. All the 9 new RMSA schools in Kheda district face many problems (like absence of

basic facility including toilet, lack of subject specific teachers, lack of library and science

laboratory. Their Annual grant is handled by the DEO office due to non-availability of the

own building. Annual grant is mostly utilized for furniture & benches for the students.

Monitoring Strategy: In Kheda district the visit of the District Coordinator (DC) have been

found to be irregular.

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Executive Summary: District 2-Anand

1

Planning &

Implement

ation


2 Access

Factors

In RMSA Secondary School, Valandpura, four children come from distance of more than 5

kms due to non-availability of schools closer to their residence. RMSA Secondary School

Padra and RMSA Secondary School, Lunej are found to be located in flood prone area. The

old Government School Vadgam is located in cyclone prone area. The RMSA Secondary

School, Bhatpura, is located near busy highway. In all these 04 schools the physical access

to school is problematic for the children. The share of SC, ST, minority and girl children in

enrollment is proportionate to their share in population of neighborhood habitation. There

is no major variation in the pattern of attendance in respect of SC, ST, minority, girl

children, and children from economically weak background. No overt or covert, manifest

or subtle, discrimination against children of any social group or community by the teachers

or peers is observed in any of the visited school.

3 Equity

Measures

Gender gap in enrollment is found in 7 schools. The gender gap in attendance is

found in 6 schools. The gender gap in enrollment as well as in the attendance was

reported due to the reasons like child labour, absence of female teachers,

household responsibilities of girls at home and unavailability of basic facilities at

school. There are no female teachers in nine visited schools. The teachers have

reported to make some efforts for the counseling of parents to bridge the gender

gaps in enrollment and attendance. There is no separate hostel or security facility in any

of RMSA schools.

4

Guidance

&

Counsellin

g

Infrastruct

ure

There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school level in any of the

visited schools under RMSA. One Counselor for 3 districts is appointed for guidance &

counseling. For Anand district, the counselor is appointed at the Vadodra District Office

and he visits Kheda, Anand and Vadodra. The counselor is expected to cover 12 schools

per month. Counselling is required for the children for problems related to absence of

subject teachers especially mathematics and science teachers, gender bias among some of

the parents, drop out and absentiesm due to child labour during specific season. But the

conseling is not taking place due to unavailability of counseling cells.

5

Quality

Interventi

ons

i. Enabling conditions:

In all the new RMSA schools the class rooms are adjusted with the existing Govt. UPS

where RMSA & SSA run schools are managed together. Two classrooms are available for

most of the visited schools in new RMSA schools and these rooms belong to Govt. UPSs.

The blackboard in all visited RMSA schools is centrally located. The number of desks were

found to be insufficient for children in 5 schools. There is no ICT devices used for teaching

purpose in the classroom in 10 visited schools due to non-availability of computer facility.

There is no library facility and age appropriate books for the students in all the new RMSA

schools except 2 old Govt. schools. There is no integrated Science and Math Laboratory,

Science and Math kit and Art/ Craft room available in any of the RMSA school except Old

Government School, Vadgam. The number of working days during the last academic year

ranged between 237-250 days. None of the school remained closed for a longer period

except Diwali vacation and summer vacation. All the teachers were found to present in

RMSA schools on visit day. Most of the teachers working in the RMSA schools have been

appointed in some other school (parent institution) but now they have been deputed in

RMSA Secondary Schools. Teachers for each class are found to available in 7 schools.

There is no science and mathematics teacher in 09 schools. However, language teacher was

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found to be available in all the RMSA schools visited by the MI.



the teacher in 8 schools out of 12 visited schools. The teacher’s diary was found to be

countersigned by the Principal though not on regular basis. The prescribed time table is

found to be available and followed by the teachers in all the visited schools.

In none of the visited school the children from disadvantaged groups or CWSN sit

separately or on the back benches except Old Government School, Bhavanipura.

The children are found to play few roles in the management of classroom. Onsite academic

support to the teachers is found to be provided in one school (RMSA Secondary School,

Padra). Extra classes for academically weaker students are found to be organized weekly in

two schools (RMSA Secondary School, Padra and RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura)

and daily in other 2 schools (Old Government School, Vadgam and RMSA Secondary

School, Lunej). All schools are found to be following grading method for evaluation.

Thirteen Children with Special Needs are found in four schools. Out of 13 CWSN, 9

children were found to be present on the visit day.

iii. Teachers’ training: In-Service training of teachers was found in all the schools.

Training is found to be given by the KRPs (College teachers, senior teachers from High

school teachers and DEO). Training module is found to be need based by the teachers in 2

schools. The regular training received by the teachers does not include training for dealing

with CWSN students. Limited numbers of teachers have availed 2 day IED training at the

block level which is found to be inadequate to handle the CWSN. Training facilities (i.e.

separate room for training, projector etc) are not found in any of the school except Old

Government School, Vadgam. The teachers are not using new technologies like Computer

assisted Learning (CAL), LCD projector etc. for imparting lessons in the classroom due to

lack of these facilities in RMSA schools.

6

Civil

works

Progress

(w.r.t.

constructi

on)

Construction of school building has been sanctioned for 10 schools and the land has been

allotted for all 10 schools. However, the construction work has not yet started.. At present

all new RMSA schools are working in the Govt. UPS campus with one classroom each for

IXth and X

th class. However, no classroom in 4 schools (RMSA Secondary School Lunej,

RMSA Secondary School Hathipura, RMSA Secondary School Mitli, and RMSA

Secondary School Bhavanipura) was found for IXth and Xth classes. All the schools

visited by the MI have ramp facilities. However, the ramps are not found to be available at

all the places in the visited schools (i.e. at entrance of the school, near drinking water

facility, toilets facility, laboratory, library and playground). Natural lights, cross ventilation

& electricity are found in all the schools, except 4 schools (RMSA Secondary School

Bhumas, RMSA Secondary School Nanavaga, RMSA Secondary School Andhari Amali

and RMSA Secondary School Jalampura). None of the schools has been found with an

arrangement of alternative power supply. All schools have drinking water facility except 3

schools. Cleanliness in drinking water is found to be ensured in 8 schools by putting

chlorine tablets in water tank or using R.O plant. Sufficient numbers of drinking water tap

are not found to be available in nine schools. Three schools did not have toilet facility.

Among schools with toilet facility, one school did not have separate toilets for boys and

girls. In most of the schools, the toilet and urinal facility is found to be insufficient to cater

to the need of the children. Running water in toilets is found to be available in five schools.

Four schools are found with drainage facility. None of the school is found to have facility

for treatment and composing of organic waste and rain water harvesting facility. Fire

extinguishers are available in 4 school and all are in working condition. In 3 schools

training has been availed by the staff for using the fire extinguishers in case of eventuality.

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In 5 school contact number of ambulance and in 4 schools contact number of fire brigade

and nearby hospital is available. There is no disaster preparedness plan & emergency

evacuation plan available in any of the visited school.

7

Communi

ty

Mobilizati

on/Partici

pation

The SMDC is found to exist in all schools except one school. The SMDC meeting is held

quarterly in 5 schools, monthly in 3 schools, half yearly in 3 schools and no meeting of the

SMDC is reported in 1 school. The SMDC members used to monitor the teachers and

students attendance in 7 schools though not regularly. No record for the same was found in

the schools. The SMDC members are not found to be familiar with their roles &

responsibilities as notified by the state Government in 11 schools. In most of the schools

the SMDC members are not found to be familiar with the SEMIS data captures format &

school report card. The SMDC members including HM and senior teachers in 8 schools

have received one day training focusing school development plan and preparation of

AWP&B which was reported to be inadequate.The SMDC in four schools have not

received any guideline and training to prepare SDP. All the schools are found to be

adopting SEMIS/UDISE as the only database for planning and plan preparation at school

level.

8

MIS

(Manage

ment

Informati

on

System)

Backup of data supplied under SEMIS is properly maintained by four schools. The

SEMIS/UDISE data is found to be used for planning and budgeting in many schools.

The DCFs have been distributed to all the school in September, 2013. In six schools the

DCF is found to be unavailable for current year 2013-14 as the DCF forms of these new

RMSA schools are collected & retained with the staff of district education office (DEO) for

ongoing sample check.

9

Financial

Managem

ent

In 02 schools the SMDC has submitted their Utilization Certificate to the District Project

Office during March to December, 2013. The common mode of transfer of funds to SMDC

from state/ district level was found to be the e-transfer. Eleven schools have received the

School annual grant @ Rs. 50.000/- per school. The HM and one of the senior teachers

were found to be the common drawing and disbursing authority in all the Old Government

schools. In 2 schools the SMDC is found to share the proposals for expenditure in 2013-14

with community. The SMDC is found to be covered by the audit in 8 schools. Financial

registers such as cashbook and pass book were found to be available in all schools though

not maintained and updated in 04 schools, No school is found to display about financial

Information-receipts and payments on the notice boards/School wall. In all new RMSA

secondary schools the funds are managed by the DEO/Office and not by the SMDC. In

none of the visited school the audit observations were found to be shared with the

community. No social auditing was reported for any of the visited school.

10

School

Annual

Grant

Eleven schools have received school annual grant in April 2013. The new RMSA schools

do not have the record about details of annual grant. In these schools the funds and their

utilization is managed by district project office. The school principal doesn’t have the

access to the funds as the schools are running in the government upper primary schools

(UPS). However, two Old Government Schools have utilized the grants as per norms.

11

Minor

Repair

Grant

Only one school has received the minor repair grant in current year.

12 Innovatio

ns/ Best

Practice


current financial year at DEO and state level both.

24

13

(A) Management /Monitoring/Evaluation and Research (MMER) (State Level Information)

Status of Posts

Monitoring

Strategy

Status of

Institutional

Mechanism Research &

Evaluation

Sanct

ioned

In-

position SCERT

15 12



surprise visit from covers various components like

basic information of the school, teachers information,

physical facilities, education related activities,ICT

School project, review of different Educational

Committees, Classrooms, result of last 5 years and

analysis of different work done using different

school grants. Each co-coordinator is expected to visit

the school at least 3 times in a month. The visit

includes the DEO of the concerned district. Monthly

review meeting is carried out at the state level in the

presence of all the coordinators.

SCERT (known

as GCERT in

Gujarat) is not

directly

involved in

RMSA

activities

Nil (Yet to

begin; grant has

been proposed in

the AWP&B)


Sl.

Name

of

Distric

t

Status of Posts Monitorin

g Strategy


Mechanism

Research &

Evaluation

Sanctione

d

In-

position

District

level

SCERT DIET DEO/ DPO

Office

1 Anand 02 post 02 (01

district

coordinat

or & 01

Computer

operator).

One

Counselor

for 3

districts is

appointed.

The

district

coordinato

r is

expected

to visit 2

schools per

week.The

visit of the

DEO is

occasional

& as per

the need.

SCERT

is not

directly

involve

d in

RMSA

activitie

s

DIET is

not

directly

involve

d in

RMSA

activitie

s

RMSA

activities in

the district

is managed

by the DEO

&

concerned

staff

Nil (Yet to

begin; grant

has been

proposed in the

AWP&B)

14

Any other

issues/

Major

Findings

Open Schooling: The Gujarat State Open School (GSOS) is established at the state level.

However, it is not directly linked with the RMSA. The GSOS conducts examination for

class Xth and XIIth. It has total 416 study centers all over Gujarat and 12 study centres in

Anand district.

Drop Out Children: Thirty nine children from 8 schools were round to be the drop out

children. In some of the schools HMs have contacted parents and counseled them to bring

these children back to the school. Infrastructure: None of the new RMSA secondary

School have their own building. They are functioning in Government Upper primary

Schools (UPS). In this situation both the schools face problem accommodating entire

students, teacher etc. Lack of own school building is found to be the major problems faced

by the school students and the teachers. All the 10 new RMSA schools in Anand district

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face many problems like absence of basic facility (toilet facility, drinking water facility),

lack of subject specific teachers, library and Science laboratory. Their Annual grant is

handled by the DEO office which further limit the SMDC authority to utilize the grants as

per their requirement.

CWSN: No medical checkup for CWSN from any of the RMSA school has been organized

in the district. Some deserving CWSN children have not been issued the certificate.

Executive Summary: District - 3: Patan

1 Planning &

Implementation


2 Access Factors

None of the children are coming from distance of more than 5 kms in any of the RMSA

school. In 7 visited schools there is natural barrier (flood prone, cyclone prone or drought

prone) and in 2 schools there is man-made barrier (busy highway) barrier which poses

challenges for the children in accessing these schools. The share of SC, ST, minority and

girl children in enrollment is proportionate to their share in population of neighborhood

habitation. There is no major variation in the pattern of attendance in respect of SC, ST,

minority, girl children, and children from economically weak background. No overt or

covert, manifest or subtle, discrimination against children of any social group or

community by the teachers or peers is observed in any of the visited school.

3 Equity

Measures

Gender gap in enrolment and attendance is found in 6 schools due to various reasons like

child marriage in some instances, child labour, lack of female teacher and household

responsibilities of girls. There are no female teachers appointed in 3 visited schools. In

few schools the school teachers are found to meets the parents and counsel them to send

their daughters to school. The in-service teachers’ training includes some components

addressing the gender gap. There is no separate hostel or security facility in any of RMSA

schools. However, there is provision of KGBV schools under SSA which have enrolled

most of the out of school / drop out children that has an impact on enrolment, attendance

and learning achievement of girls. There are 5 KGBVs in Patan district. After passing out

from the KGBVs some of the girls are enrolled in the nearby RMSA schools.

4 Guidance &

Counselling

Infrastructure

There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school level in any of the

visited schools under RMSA. However, one counselor for 3 districts has been appointed

for guidance & counseling of students. The counselor is expected to visit 12 schools per

month. For Patan , the counselor is appointed at the Mehsana district office and he visits

Patan, Banaskantha and Mehsana. Therefore visit of the counselor was found to irregular

in all the schools in Patan district. The counselling is required for the children for

problems including absence of subject teachers especially mathematics and science

teachers, gender bias among some of the parents, drop out and absentiesm due to child

labour during specific season etc. But the conseling is not taking place due to

unavailability of counseling cells.

5

Quality

Interventions

i. Enabling conditions: In all new RMSA schools the class rooms are adjusted with the

existing Govt. UPS where RMSA & SSA run schools are managed together. Two

classrooms are available for 8 visited schools and these rooms belong to Govt. UPSs.

However, only one classroom is available for both IXth and Xth classes in three schools.

The blackboard is centrally located in 12 schools out of 14 visited schools. The number of

desks were found to be sufficient for children in 10 schools. There is no ICT devices used

for teaching purpose in the classroom in 8 visited schools due to absence of computer

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facility. There is no Art/ Craft room found in any of the visited school. The number of

working days during the last academic year is ranged between 222-263 days. None of the

schools are closed for a longer period except the summer vacation and Diwali vacation.

Teacher for each class is found to be available in 9 schools out of 14 visited schools.

There is no science and mathematics teacher in 05 RMSA schools which is found to be a

major problem in this district. The School principal arranges subject teachers from other

school as per their availability to complete the course curriculum.



the teachers in 11 schools. The teacher’s diary was found to be countersigned by the

Principal though not on regular basis. The prescribed time table is found to be available

and followed by the teachers in 12 visited schools. Extra classes for academically weaker

students are found to be organized in 6 schools. Most of the schools are following grading

method for evaluation. Six children with special needs (CWSN) are found in five schools

and all CWSN students are found to be participative in classroom activities. The peer

interaction with CWSN was found to be either friendly or neutral in all the visited schools.

Onsite academic support to the teachers is found to be given in 3 schools. None of the

school has prepared any Individualized Educational Plan (IEPs) for CWSN. The ICT

devices are not used in any of the schools with CWSN.

iii. Teachers’ training: In-Service training of teachers was found in all the schools.

Training is found to be given by the KRPs (College teachers, High school teachers and

DEO). The regular training received by the teachers does not include training to deal with

CWSN. Training facilities (i.e. separate room for training, projector etc) and use of

technologies like computer assisted learning by teachers are not found to be available in

most of the visited schools (12 schools).

6

Civil works

Progress (w.r.t.

construction)

Construction of school building is required for all the 5 new RMSA schools. The land has

been allotted for only 2 schools, but the construction work has not yet started. For 3

schools the land allotment is still pending. All new RMSA schools are working in the

Govt. UPS campus. All the schools visited by the MI have ramp facilities. However, the

ramps are not found to be available at all the places (i.e. at entrance of the school, near

drinking water facility, toilets facility, laboratory, library, auditorium, and playground) in

the visited schools. Three schools do not have toilet facility. In most of the schools, the

toilet and urinal facility is found to be insufficient to cater to the need of the children. Four

schools do not have separate toilets for boys and girls. There is no special provision of

toilets for physically challenged students in any of the RMSA School. The contact

numbers for ambulance, fire brigade and nearest hospital is found to be available in 7

schools. However, in none of the school these numbers are displayed on school wall or

notice board. None of the school has alternative power supply facility. None of the new

RMSA schools have library and science laboratory facility. Eleven schools have drinking

water facility. Four schools are found with unsafe drinking water due to high salt contents.

In 6 schools the number of taps is found to be insufficient to cater to the need of the

children. None of the school is found to have facility for treatment and composing of

organic waste and rain water harvesting facility. There is no disaster preparedness plan &

emergency evacuation plan available in any of the visited school.

7

Community

Mobilization/P

articipation

The SMDC is found to exist in all schools The SMDC meeting is held quarterly in 3

schools, monthly in 6 schools & occasionally in rest of the schools. In all the schools the

proceedings record is found to be maintained. The SMDC members are found to monitor

the students attendance in 11 schools though not regularly. The SMDC members are not

27

found to be familiar with their roles & responsibilities as notified by the state Government

in 2 schools. In many schools the SMDC members are not found to be familiar with the

SEMIS/UDISE data captures format & school report card. The SMDC members including

HM and a senior teacher have received one day training in some schools focusing school

development plan and preparation of AWP&B which was reported to be inadequate.

8

MIS

(Management

Information

System)

Backup of data supplied under SEMIS/UDISE is properly maintained by 11 schools. The

SEMIS/UDISE data is found to be used for planning and budgeting in majority of the

RMSA schools. The copy of the filled in DCF is found to be unavailable for current year

2013-14 in 4 visited schools.

9 Financial

Management

The common mode of transfer of funds to SMDC from state/ district level was found to be

the e-transfer. The HM and one of the senior teachers were found to be the common

drawing and disbursing authority in all the Old Government schools. The SMDC is found

to be covered by the audit in 09 schools. Three schools are found with instances of

community mobilized resources for schools. Financial registers such as cashbook and pass

book were found to be available in 13 schools, though not maintained and updated in 3

schools. No school is found to display financial Information on the notice boards/School

wall. In all new RMSA secondary schools the funds are managed by the DEO/Office and

not by the SMDC. In none of the visited school the audit observations were found to be

shared with the community. No social auditing was reported for any of the visited school.

10 School Annual

Grant

Eleven schools are found to receive the annual grant for the year 2013-14. The new

RMSA schools do not have the record about date of receiving annual grant. In these

schools the funds and their utilization is managed by district education office ( DEO). The

school principal doesn’t have the access to the funds as the schools are running in the

government upper primary schools (UPS). All the schools have utilized the grants as per

norms.

11 Minor Repair

Grant

None of the school has received the minor repair grant in the current year.

12 Innovations/

Best Practices


current financial year at DEO and state level both.

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(A) Management /Monitoring/Evaluation and Research (MMER) (State Level Information) Status of Posts Monitoring

Strategy

Status of

Institutional

Mechanism

Research &

Evaluation

Sanc

tione

d

In-

positio

n SCERT

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surprise visit from covers various components

like basic information of the school, teachers

information, physical facilities, education related

activities,ICT School project, review of different

Educational Committees, Classrooms, result of

last 5 years and analysis of different work done

using different school grants. Each co-

coordinator is expected to visit the school at least

3 times in a month. The visit includes the DEO of

the concerned district. Monthly review meeting is

carried out at the state level in the presence of all

the coordinators.

SCERT

(known as

GCERT in

Gujarat) is not

directly

involved in

RMSA

activities

Nil (Yet to

begin; grant

has been

proposed in the

AWP&B)


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Sl.

Name

of

District

Status of Posts Monitorin

g Strategy


Mechanism Research &

Evaluation Sanct

ioned In- position

District

level SCERT DIET

DEO/

DPO

Office

1 Patan 02

post

02 (01 district

coordinator & 01

Computer

operator).

One Counselor for

3 districts is

appointed.

The district

coordinator

is expected

to visit 2

schools per

week.The

visit of the

DEO is

occasional

& as per

the need.

SCERT

is not

directly

involved

in

RMSA

activitie

s

DIET

is not

directly

involve

d in

RMSA

activiti

es

RMSA

activities in

the district

is managed

by the DEO

&

concerned

staff

Nil (Yet to

begin; grant

has been

proposed in

the AWP&B)

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Open Schooling: The Gujarat State Open School (GSOS) is established at the state level. However, it is not

directly linked with the RMSA. The GSOS conducts examination for class Xth and XIIth. It has total 416

study centers all over Gujarat and 11 study centres in Patan district.

Drop Out Children: Thirty children from 9 schools were found to be the drop out children. In some of the

schools HMs have contacted parents and counseled them to bring these children back to the school.

Other grants: Students excursion grant (@ Rs 200/- per student) is sanctioned to 11 schools on 18th June,

2013. The SMDC Members’ Talim Grant has been received by 6 schools during March 2013. The

Environment Climate Change Grant is given to 11 schools in February, 2013. All the non-recurring grants

(that includes annual grant, Students excursion grant , SMDC Member Talim Grant and Environment

Climate Change Grant) have been utilized for 2013. However, all the recurring funds remain unutilized.

Infrastructure: None of the new RMSA secondary schools have their own building. They are functioning in

Government Upper primary Schools (UPS). In this situation both the schools face problem accommodating

entire students, teacher etc. Lack of own school building is found to be the major problems faced by the

school students and the teachers. All the 5 new RMSA schools in Patan district face many problems (like

absence of basic facility including toilet, lack of subject specific teachers, lack of library and science

laboratory. Their Annual grant is handled by the DEO office due to non-availability of the own building.

Annual grant is mostly utilized for furniture & benches for the students.

Over all Suggestions & Recommendation in all 3 districts

Monitoring Strategy- The Monitoring Strategy needs to be followed more firmly. The district

coordinator (DC) is expected to visit 2 schools per week. However in Kheda district the visits of the DC

are found to be irregular.

School Infrastructure- None of the new RMSA secondary schools have their own building and it is

found to be the major problems faced by both students and the teachers. These schools are functioning in

Government Upper primary Schools (UPS). In all new RMSA schools the class rooms are adjusted with

the existing Govt. UPS where RMSA & SSA run schools are managed together. In this situation both

the schools face problem accommodating entire students, teacher etc. There is no Art/ Craft room,

computer facility, adequate toilet and drinking water facility in any of the new RMSA school.

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Counselling Cell-There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school level in any of the

3 districts visited by the MI. There is scarcity of consellor as only one counselor has been appointed for 3

districts.

Lack of subject teachers- There are no science and mathematics teachers in most of the new RMSA

schools in all 3 visited districts which is found to be a major problem faced by the students and the

principal.

Financial Management- In all new RMSA secondary schools the funds are managed by the DEO/Office

and not by the SMDC. No school is found to display financial Information on the notice boards/School

wall. In none of the visited school the audit observations were found to be shared with the community.

No social auditing was reported for any of the visited school. The school principal in all the new RMSA

schools of 3 districts do not have the access to the funds as the schools are running in the government

upper primary schools (UPS). Annual grant is mostly utilized for furniture & benches for the students.

Staffing Pattern-Most of the District coordinator are from MBA background without much exposure to

the education field. Hence they are not able to comprehend the entire mission of the RMSA. Therefore

staff with some more experience in education field can be recruited or the capacity building traing of the

existing DCs can be conducted on priority basis.

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Chapter 1

District Level Half Yearly Monitoring Report for District-1: Kheda

1 PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION

At School Level

1. What role has been assigned to the SMDCs for implementing the scheme?

School Management and Development Committee (SMDC) for Secondary Schools is responsible for

school level planning, monitoring and evaluation at the school level, taking remedial actions on all the

components / interventions of the scheme- infrastructural, academic and others at the school level. The

SMDC has a direct role in monitoring the annual school grant, major and minor repair grant and

strengthening of existing secondary schools.

2. Are they clear about their role and taking steps accordingly?

Out of 17 visited schools in 12 schools the SMDC members are found to be clear about their role to

some extent. They are taking steps accordingly in some schools.

3. Whether School Management and Development Committee (SMDC) general body meeting is

held quarterly? If not, are the proceedings mentioned by the school.

The School Management and Development Committee (SMDC) general body meeting is held quarterly

in 5 schools, monthly in 8 schools and yearly in 2 schools. In 2 schools no meeting of the SMDC is

reported by the MI. In 13 schools the proceedings record of the SMDC meetings is found to be

maintained out of which only 6 schools have maintained the proceedings systematically.

4. Whether SMDC recommendations have been incorporated in school development plan or not.

As told to the MI in 9 schools, some of the SMDC recommendations have been incorporated in the

school development plan.

5. Whether there is any separate planning & strategy developed for disadvantaged groups. If not,

why?

In none of the visited schools separate planning & strategy has been developed for disadvantaged

groups. However, the disadvantaged groups get certain benefits as per GoG norm. For instance each SC

and ST child (both IXth & Xth class) avails scholarship amount of Rs.2250 per year (Rs. 1850 last

year), an OBC student of class IX receives Rs.400 per year and student of class X receives Rs.625/- (Rs

400/- scholarship+ Rs 225/- as Exam fee) per year. Each CWSN with certificate enrolled in secondary

school receives scholarship amount of Rs 1500/- per annum. Most of such children have their own bank

account in individual names opened by the State RMSA office. The scholarship amount is directly

credited from the Department of Social Welfare to their bank account. There is a provision of bicycles

distribution under ‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ to all the girls belonging to the disadvantaged groups i.e.

SC, ST and OBC. However, in Kheda district bicycles are found to be distributed to the girls in few

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schools.

6. Whether the school plan has adopted a convergence approach with other departments like

Water & Sanitation, SC welfare, Tribal development, Minority, Rural / Urban development,

Health department, etc. Please mention the areas of convergence. Are there any problem areas of

restructuring on convergence and coordination?

The school plan has adopted a convergence approach with some departments like Water & Sanitation,

Social Welfare Department, Tribal development department and Health Department. Social Welfare

Department manages the scholarship to the deserving children as per the details mentioned above.

The areas of convergence include providing certain benefits to the target group. For instance the tribal

girls are provided bicycles through Tribal development department; health check-up is carried out

annually in the secondary schools through PHCs of Health department. There is provision of water

supply through the Water & Sanitation department by supplying Municipality water in urban areas.

Benefit of scholarship is handled by the Social Welfare Department and the scholarship is directly sent

to the schools.

Problem areas of restructuring on convergence and coordination: It was found by the MI that the

district officers concerning RMSA are not issued any clear guidelines regarding the areas of

convergence. At school level it was noticed that some interventions take place through convergence

approach as mentioned above. The state should issue clear guidelines & provisions to the district, block

& school level regarding the details of provisions & target beneficiaries.

7. Whether perspective plan for the school has been developed or not.

Perspective plan for the school has been developed in all old government schools. None of the new

schools under RMSA have their own school building and they are functioning in government upper

primary schools. Hence the plan has not included the infrastructure and related issues in these schools.

8. What data base/ sources adopted / taken for Planning and Plan preparation at school level

other than SEMIS.

None of the schools have adopted any other data base for Planning and Plan preparation at school level

other than SEMIS.

At State Level

1. Whether the State level planning team was involved in the preparation and finalization of

district level plans or not?

The State level planning team is involved in the preparation and finalization of district level plans. It is

under process for the 2013-14 before the commencement of PAB meeting at National level.

2. Whether the State plan has adopted a convergence approach with other departments like water

& sanitation, SC welfare, Tribal development, Minority, Rural / Urban development, Health

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department, etc. Please mention the areas of convergence. Are there any problem areas of


The schools under RMSA receive help in form of scholarship and some provisions from some

departments like Social Welfare department and Tribal welfare Department. Health department conduct

checkup of the students every year through the local PHC. The scholarship is directly channelized

through the Department of Social Welfare to the District and then to the school level. There is provision

of bicycles distribution under ‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ to the girls belonging to the disadvantaged

groups i.e. SC, ST and OBC. MI has noticed that the main problem areas of restructuring on convergence

and coordination are due to the communication gap. The teachers, the DEOs and the RMSA

coordinators are not fully aware of the convergence with other departments.

3. Is there regular monitoring on planning & implementation of the programme at the state level.

If not, why?

There is regular monitoring on planning & implementation of the programme at the state level. The state

level functionaries visit the district and monitor the activities under RMSA. A monitoring format is

prepared by the State RMSA office and its report is under process.

4. Are there any separate strategies for the naxalite / extremist affected districts prepared at the

state/ district level in consultation with the district authority? If not why?

Kheda is not a naxalite/extremist affected district, so no separate strategy has been prepared so far.

At District Level

1. Whether the District level plan was prepared or not?

The district level plan is under preparation and it is yet to be finalized.

2. Whether the District plan has adopted a convergence approach with other departments like

water & sanitation, SC welfare, Tribal development, Minority, Rural / Urban development,

Health department, etc. Please mention the areas of convergence. Are there any problem areas of


The schools under RMSA in Kheda district get help from some departments like Social Welfare

department and Tribal welfare Department provides scholarship to the students. Health department

conducts checkup at the school level every year through local PHC. The details have been mentioned

earlier.

3. How is Perspective Plan and Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWP&B) regularly monitored?

The DEO of different districts prepare the district level brief Report and the requirement and then

submit it to the State RMSA Office .The State officers verify the requirements at district level. After

that the district level requirement is consolidated to prepare the Annual Work Plan and Budget

(AWP&B) at State level. The AWP & B Report is then sent to the MHRD for approval.

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2. ACCESS

I. Physical Access:

1. Is location of school adjacent to or within any of following sensitive areas? If yes, in which area.

Protected Area (National Park, Wildlife Sanctuary)/Flood Prone / Flood Plain Area/Earth Quake

Prone Zone/Unstable Slope / Landslide Prone Area / Erosion Prone Area/Cyclone Prone

Area/Storm Surge Prone Area/Drought Prone Area/Polluting Industrial Area/Mining

Area/Arsenic/Fluoride Contaminated Ground Water Area/Busy National/State

Highway/Congested Urban/Market/Commercial Area/Any particular disturbance faced by school

due to its location.

Old Government School, Nanavaga is located in flood prone area and Old Government School, Bor is

located in remote area without adequate transport facility. In both the schools the physical access to

school poses challenges for the children.

2. Name & category (EBB, Urban, CWSN, etc.) of the school visited and number of habitations

being served by the school.

Five schools with CWSN, 8 schools with high gender gap, 1 school with SC/ST/Minority as major

habitants and 3 schools with incidences of drop out children are visited. Seven schools are found with

low academic achievement. No school is reported with urban deprived students.

3. Name and category of the feeder upper primary schools.

New RMSA schools are mostly managed in Govt UP Schools and these schools are the feeder upper

primary schools.

4. Are the children from habitations at a distance greater than what is prescribed for a

neighborhood school enrolled in the school? If yes reasons thereof.

In none of the schools the children from habitations at a distance greater than what is prescribed for a

neighborhood school are found to be enrolled in the school. None of the children are coming from

distance of more than 5 km in any of the RMSA schools.

5. Presence of any natural or man-made barrier that poses any problem for the children in

accessing the school.

Location of one of the schools in flood prone area (Old Government School, Nanavaga) poses problem

for the children in accessing the school in monsoon season.

6. Name and distance of the nearest secondary school from the habitation the school is located at,

and catchment area of the school.

The nearest Upper Primary School to the RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur and Old Government

School, Porada Fagvel is Balasinor Secondary school which is located at a distance of 15 kms. The

nearest higher secondary school for RMSA Secondary School Jalampura is Sarasvati Vidyamandir,

Modaj which is located at a distance of about 8 km. For rest of the schools the nearest Upper Primary

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School is within the distance of 1-3 kms.

7. Any special arrangement like transportation facility or residential facility made available for

the benefit of students.

No special arrangement like transportation facility or residential facility has been made for the students

in any of the RMSA school.

II. Social Access:

1. Is the share of SC, ST, Minority and Girl children in enrollment proportionate to their share in

population of the habitation/neighborhood catered to?

The share of SC, ST, Minority and girl children in enrollment is proportionate to their share in

population of the neighborhood habitation as told by the school HM & SMDC members.

2. Is there any major variation in the pattern of attendance in respect of SC, ST, Minority, Girl

children, and children from economically weak background?

There is no major variation in the pattern of attendance in respect of SC, ST, Minority, Girl children,

and children from economically weak background.

3. Is there any specific scheme in the State for ensuring enrollment of special category students

like SC/ST/Minorities/girls/CWSN? If yes, whether it ensures the convergence of the provisions of

RMSA.

There is not any specific scheme in the State for ensuring enrollment of special category students like

SC/ST/Minorities/girls/CWSN. However, the special category students get certain benefits as per GoG

norm. For instance each SC and ST child (both IXth & Xth class) avails scholarship amount of Rs.2250

per year (Rs. 1850 last year), An OBC student of class IX receives Rs.400 per year and student of class

X receives Rs.625/- (Rs 400/- scholarship+ Rs 225/- as Exam fee) per year. Each CWSN enrolled in

secondary education gets scholarship amount of Rs 1500/- per annum. Most of the children under

RMSA have a bank account in which the scholarship amount is directly credited from the Department

of Social Welfare. There is a provision of bicycles distribution under ‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ to all

the girls belonging to the disadvantaged groups i.e. SC, ST and OBC. However, the bicycles are found

to be distributed to the girls in few schools. All the provisions ensure the convergence of the provisions

of RMSA and there was no evidence of replications.

4. Whether any overt or covert, manifest or subtle, discrimination against children of any social

group or community by the teachers or peers is observed? If yes, what efforts have been made to

minimize it?

No overt or covert, manifest or subtle, discrimination against children of any social group or community

by the teachers or peers is observed in any of the visited school.

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5. Do the overall conditions prevalent in school facilitate access of CWSN to secondary schools? If

not, what are the obstructions and barriers?

The overall conditions prevalent in school facilitate access of CWSN to secondary schools, mostly for

admission and enrolment. However, in many schools with CWSN, the ramp is found to be inadequate.

Ramps are not prevalent in independent structure; accessed by the students.

6. Are there any facilities / special provisions made available for disabled children in the school? If

yes, please give details thereof.

Some facilities like ramp with a handrail at entrance or at drinking water is found in some of the schools

with CWSN. There is no Resource teacher visit in any of the visited school in the district. However,

Some NGOs like VS Gandhi Charitable trust has extended voluntary services for the CWSN in Old

Govt. School, Bor.

III. Open Schooling:

1. Whether the state open school is established at the state level.

The open school (Gujarat State Open School- GSOS) is established at the state level. However, it is not

directly linked with the students enrolled under RMSA. The state Open school conducts examination for

class Xth and XIIth.

2. Whether the state open school has their own district regional centers and study centers.

The state Open school has total 416 study centers all over Gujarat. It has 17 study centres in Kheda

district. But the district level RMSA functionaries are not involved in this activity. Their major

responsibility is to conduct the examination for the applicants in each center.

3. Comments on

a) Admission & Re-admission procedure in state open school b) Examination & Assessment

pattern c) Student support services

a). For registration in state open school, the agency BISAG (Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space

Application and Geo-Econometrics) advertise it over TV & local daily newspapers. Any person who has

passed VIIth class and attained 15 years of age can take admission.

b). The examination is conducted at the study centres which are a government school only. There is no

separate Examination & Assessment pattern by the GSOS. However, the certificate is issued by the state

board.

c). At present there is no provision for academic support services for the enrolled students under Gujarat

State Open School (GSOS).However, some teachers help the students informally, if they seek help.

4. Comments on advocacy programme for out of school children for bringing them back to the

school.

There is no such provision from the district RMSA office for out of school children and bringing them

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back to the school. However, based on the interaction at the school level, the MI could find that the HM

of some of the schools and some SMDC members take initiative to convince the parents for bringing the

children back to the school.

5. Whether the state has conducted household survey or uses any other method to identify the

number of out of school children in the state.

The state has not conducted any household survey or used any other method to identify the number of

out of school children in the state. The household survey to identify the number of out of school

children is conducted by the SMDC at school level.

6. Comments on identification procedure of out of the school children.

As conveyed by the HM to the MI, any children who is absent for a prolonged duration (more than 2

months) without any intimation to the school authorities is considered an out of the school children.

IV. Out of School Children (OoSC)/ Drop-Out Children – of Age Group 14-16 Yrs.

1. The number, gender and category-wise (SC/ ST/ Minorities/ CWSN) profiling of Out of School

Children (OoSC)/ Drop-Out Children in the age group of 14-16 Yrs.

Eleven children (4 boys and 9 girls) from Old Government School, Nanavaga; 3 children (1 boy & 2

girls from RMSA Secondary School, Chapra; 8 children (1 boy and 7 girls) from RMSA Secondary

School, Jalampura and 18 children (7 boys and 11 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa were

found to be the drop out children.

2. Whether efforts have been made by School Management to bring them back to school and if so

the result there of during the past one year.

In some of the schools HMs have contacted parents and counselled them to bring these children back to

the school. As per the school record the drop out children have taken admission in another school

however, no record of the same was found at the school level.

3. Are children of seasonal migrant families held back in the school through seasonal hostels or to

there any other intervention?

There is not found to be any instances of children of seasonal migrant families held back in the school

through seasonal hostels or by any other intervention.

4. If no such arrangement made, whether migration / transfer certificate is issued to such children

by the school?

It was told to the MI by the HM that there were not any children of seasonal migrant families, therefore

no certificate was issued.

5. Has any special training intervention been started for the OoSC? If yes, please give details

covering following points: -

a) No. of children enrolled and found present on the day of visit.

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b) Whether training is imparted through regular teachers or NIOS/SIOS?

c) Duration of training and achievement level of the children.

No special training intervention has been started for the OoSC by any of the visited schools. Hence the

above mentioned points are not applicable

3. EQUITY

I. General Information

1. Category-wise (SC/ ST/ Minority/ CWSN) profiling of attendance and achievement (School

result) of school children in the age group 14-16 years.

All enrolled ST children were found to be present on the visit day. Out of 27 enrolled SC children, 19

children were found to be present on visit day. Out of 13 enrolled children of Minority category, 12

children were found to be present on visit day. There were 11 CWSN children and 07 were present on

the visit day. Gender gap in learning achievement was found in 09 schools. The MI did not notice major

variation in learning achievement level among the SC/ ST/ Minority/ CWSN children. There is no major

variation in attendance and achievement of the children from SC/ ST and Minority category.

2. Category-wise (SC/ ST/ Minority/ CWSN) dropout students in past one year.

As per the school HM the children who left the school have taken admission in another school. Eleven

children (4 boys and 9 girls) from Old Government School, Nanavaga; three children (1 boy & 2 girls

from RMSA Secondary School Chapra, eight children (1 boy and 7 girls) from RMSA Secondary

School Jalampura and eighteen children (7 boys and 11 girls) from RMSA Secondary School Rohisa,

had dropped out from the respective schools. Hence the MI could find that about 40 children have

dropped out from the visited schools in Kheda District.

3. Reasons for dropouts and measures taken to address the same.

Child marriage and poor socio-economic background are found to be major reason for the drop outs.

Parents of most of the children are working as daily wage labourers. They prefer to take their children

with them wherever they get work.

II. Girls’ Education

1. Gender gap in enrolment, attendance, learning achievement and reasons thereof.

ENROLMENT, ATTENDANCE, ACHIEVEMENT

Table 1.1: Gender gaps in Enrollment, Attendance & Learning Achievement: Kheda District

S.No. Name of School

Enrolment in

2013-14

Enrolment in

2012-13

Learning

Achievement>60%

B G Tot B G Tot B G Tot 1. Old Government School,Bavara 43 26 69 39 26 65 39 6 45 2. Old Government School, Golaj 68 38 106 50 36 86 39 26 65 3. Old Government School, PordaFagvel 40 41 81 18 18 36 35 31 66 4. Old Government School,Jakhed 52 27 79 33 33 66 40 16 56 5. Old Government School, Bharkunda 50 65 115 50 65 115 42 57 99

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6. Old Government School, Andhariamli 32 24 56 35 24 59 25 16 41 7. Old Government School, Nanavaga 58 40 98 25 22 47 42 02 44 8. Old Government School, Bor 55 30 85 71 34 105 4 9 13 9. RMSA Secondary School, Madadara 65 27 92 64 26 90 33 13 46 10. RMSA Secondary School, Apruji 58 56 114 58 56 114 51 45 96 11. RMSA Secondary School,Lilva 67 61 128 29 27 56 36 31 67 12. RMSA Secondary School, Jalampura 47 22 69 38 24 62 16 12 28 13. RMSA Secondary School, Chapra 28 22 60 23 17 40 25 13 38 14. RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa 38 22 60 36 21 57 19 5 24 15. RMSA Secondary School, Bhumas 64 33 97 76 55 131 39 23 62 16. RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur 41 30 71 22 17 35 33 26 59 17. RMSA Secondary School,Gutal 47 18 65 26 16 42 30 12 42

TOTAL 853 582 1445 693 517 1206 548 343 891

Higher gender gap in enrollment is found in 08 schools. However, some gender gap in enrollment is

found in 15 schools. In Old Government School Porda Fagvel the number of girls enrolled is more than

the boys. In 7 schools the girls have performed better as compared to the boys. Out of 582 girls, 343

girls have secured more than 60 per cent marks in all the visited schools. Out of 853 boys, 548 boys

have secured more than 60 per cent marks in all the visited schools.

Reasons for gaps in enrollment (If)

a. Socio-cultural Reason, b. Economic Reasons ,c. Linguistic Reason

Gender gap in enrolment was found in 08 visited schools due to Socio-cultural issues and Economic

reasons. In some families the girls take care of the household work while their mothers move out of the

house for daily wage. The cultural issues have an impact on early marriage in some instances.

Reasons for absenteeism-

a. Health (own or family members), b. Social cultural issues, c. Sibling Care, d. Household

responsibilities, e. Family issues function/Gone to relatives house, f. Earning for livelihood.

g. Migration, h. Any other

Gender gap in attendance were found to be due to various reasons like socio-cultural reasons, child

marriage in some instances, child labour, household responsibilities of girls at home including younger

sibling care. There are no female teachers appointed in eleven visited schools which could have been

one of the reasons for the gender gap in enrolment and attendance.

2. What efforts have been made to address the gender gap-attitudinal and physical?

In RMSA there is no specific intervention through financial support to address the gender gap-in the

context of both attitudinal and physical. In few schools the school teachers meet the parents and counsel

them to send their daughters to school. The in-service teachers’ training also includes some components

addressing the gender gap. However the efforts are not sufficient to address the gender gap in

connection to attitudinal change and bridging the barrier for physical/infrastructural issues.

3. Is there any reduction in enrollment, attendance, learning achievement, if yes, what are the

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reasons?

In 12 schools the enrolment in 2013-14 has improved as compared to the enrolment in last academic

year (2012-13). However in 3 schools (Old Government School Andhari Ambli, Old Government

School Bor and RMSA Secondary School Bhumas) the enrolment has declined in current academic

session as compared to the previous academic session. Total enrolment in 2012-13 in kheda district was

1206 and during 2013-14 it reached to 1445 (For details, please see Table 1.1). There is not found to be

major variation/ reduction in attendance and learning achievement.

4. What are the efforts made to address the gender gap & removing the physical barriers?

In some schools the school teachers and the members of SMDC make an attempt to convince and

counsel the parents to educate their daughters. With regard to remove the physical barriers the MI did

not observe any noticeable efforts by the school authority.

5. Have any efforts been made for the counseling of parents to handle the problems of girls? If

not, Why?

In some schools the teachers have made some efforts for the counseling of parents & convinced them to

send their daughters to attend the school regularly. This effort has helped bridging the gender gaps in

enrollment and attendance to some extent.

6. Whether the aspects like separate hostel and other physical facilities and availability of

security have impact on enrolment and attendance and learning achievement of girls?

There is no provision of any separate hostel or security facility in any of the RMSA schools. However,

there is facility of KGBV school under SSA which has enrolled most of the out of school /drop out

children that has made an impact on enrolment, attendance and learning achievement of girls. There is

one KGBV in Kheda district. After passing out from the KGBV some of the girls are enrolled in the

nearby RMSA schools. However such provisions are not ensured to the students under RMSA.

4. GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING

1. Whether the Guidance and Counseling Cell has been constituted by the school? If yes, what is

the available Student-Counselor Ratio?

There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school level in any of the visited schools

under RMSA. One Counselor for 3 districts is appointed for guidance & counseling by the State. For

Kheda district the counselor is appointed at the Vadodra district office and he visits Kheda, Anand and

Vadodra. The counselor is expected to cover 12 schools per month. The visit of the counselor is found

to be irregular in this district.

2. How many children have been assisted by the Cell?

There is no guidance and counseling cell however, counselor is found to visit the students occasionally.

No record is found to be maintained for the counselor’s visit at school level.

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3. What are the frequent problem areas of the students for which guidance and counseling is

sought?

Counseling is required for the children for the problems related to absence of subject teachers especially

mathematics and science teachers, gender bias among some of the parents, drop out and absenteeism

due to indulgence in child labour during specific season. But the counseling is not taking place due to

unavailability of counseling cells.

5. QUALITY

I. Enabling conditions

1. Are the classrooms properly lighted and ventilated?

Two classrooms are available for most of the visited schools & in new RMSA schools. These rooms

belong to Govt. UPSs. All the classrooms are properly lighted and well ventilated.

2. Is there availability of adequate desks/chairs for the students?

The number of desks was found to be insufficient for children in two schools (Old Government School

Porda Fagvel & RMSA Secondary School Mangalpur).

3. Are the blackboards appropriately located in the classrooms?

The blackboard in all visited RMSA schools is centrally located.

4. Please give details of innovative teaching aids, including ICT devices used in classroom.

There is no ICT devices used for teaching purpose in the classroom in 13 visited schools due to absence

of computer facility. However, 4 schools (Old Government School Andhari Amli, Old Government

School Golaj, RMSA Secondary School Apruji and RMSA Secondary School Madadara) have

computer facility.

5. Comments on the availability and usability of the following facilities:

a. Library room and age appropriate books for the students available?

There is no library room & age appropriate book for the students in any of the new RMSA schools. In

most of the old Government Schools Library facility was found to be provided.

b. Integrated Science and Math Laboratory and availability of Science and Math kit and other

materials required,

There is no integrated Science and Math Laboratory and Science and Math kit available in any of the

new RMSA school. However, the Science Laboratory is found to be available in most of the Old

Government Schools.

c. Availability of Art/ Craft room?

There is no Art/ Craft room found to be available in any of the visited school including both old and

new schools under RMSA.

6. The number of days the school functioned during the last academic year? Give reasons for the

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closure, if any of the school remains closed for long gaps during last year. Suggestions to avoid

repetition of such instances.

The number of working days during the last academic year ranged between 237-245 days. None of the

school remained closed for a longer period except the summer vacation (about 45 days) & Diwali

vacation (about 21 days).

7. Number of teachers present in the school (Male & Female), vacancies against sanctioned post.

There are 42 male teachers and 6 female teachers. In all the schools 39 male teachers and 3 female

teachers are found to be present on visit day of the MI. Most of the teachers working in the existing

RMSA schools are appointed in some other schools (parent institution) but now they have been deputed

to RMSA Secondary Schools due to scarcity of teachers in RMSA school & surplus teachers in the

parent school. There are 03 vacancies against the sanctioned post in the district.

Table 1.2 Number of teachers present in the school

Teachers No. of teachers

appointed in the school.

No. of teachers

present in the school

Sanctioned

Post

Vacancies against

Sanctioned Post

Male 42 39 51 03

Female 06 03

Total 48 42 51 03

8. In case of teacher vacancy, what alternative arrangements have been made by the

heads of the institution to complete that course curriculum?

The School principal arranges specific subject teachers especially for science and mathematics from

other schools as per their availability to complete that course curriculum.

9. Are sufficient teachers available for each class and for teaching Science, Mathematics and

languages?

Teacher for each class is found to be available in 14 schools. Three schools (Old Government School.

Golaj, Old Government School Jakhed and RMSA Secondary School Madadara) did not have teacher

for each class. There is no science and mathematics teacher in 10 RMSA schools which is found to be a

major problem in this district. Language teacher was found to be available in all the schools visited by

the MI except 2 schools (Old Government School Jakhed and Old Government School Golaj).

10. Do all teachers possess professional training qualifications as mandated? Give number of

untrained teachers.

All the teachers in visited RMSA schools are found to be trained and possess professional training

qualifications as mandated.

11. Whether the practice of truancy, i.e. absenteeism/class bunking by students/teachers has been

reported in the school? If so, the reasons thereof and the steps taken by the school management to

curb the practice.

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The practice of truancy (class bunking by students/teachers) has not been reported in any of the visited

school. However practice of absenteeism was reported by the teachers due to students’ involvement in

labour activities during specific season.

12. Policy of teacher recruitment, deployment, training, remuneration and career advancements.

Policy of teacher recruitment, deployment, training, and remuneration and career advancements has

been followed as per the State Government norms. At the moment all the ‘new RMSA’ teachers are

deputed from the parents’ school where they had been earlier recruited. The Old government schools

have their own teachers to teach the secondary school students. They are also recruited as per the state

government norm. The DEO has no role in teacher’s recruitment. The State conducts TAT (Teachers

Aptitude Test) examination and selects the teachers as per merit.

II. Teaching Learning Process

1. Is the teacher's diary including curriculum delivery and lesson plan etc. maintained by teacher

& countersigned by the Head of the institution regularly?

The teacher’s diary which includes curriculum delivery and lesson plan is found to be maintained by the

teachers in 15 schools. It was found to be countersigned by the Principal though not on regular basis.

2. Is the time table prescribed by the school available and followed by the teachers?

The prescribed time table is found to be available and followed by the teachers in most of the visited

schools.

3. Are discussions and group team works encouraged as a methodology of teaching for

involvement of children / students in teaching learning process?

Discussions and group team works are found to be encouraged among children in some of the schools.

4. Give your comments on the classroom management with reference to: a. Whether children are

made to sit in small groups. Groups are formed of children from the same class or with children

from different classes, b. Do children from disadvantaged groups and children with disabilities sit

separately or on the back benches? c. Do children have any role in the management of

classroom?

Children in few schools sit in small groups and the groups are formed of children from the same class.

In none of the visited school the children from disadvantaged groups or CWSN sit separately or on the

back benches except Old Government School Bor (Pl. see annexure-1.3 for photograph).However the

CWSN has opted to sit in the last row because of his height and own choice. The children are found to

play some role in managing the classroom including classroom cleaning, organizing prayer assembly

during school opening and managing class in absence of the teacher etc.

5. Onsite academic support to the teachers especially by the Resource Teachers-frequency of

visits, time spent by the Resource Teachers in the school and nature of support provided.

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Onsite academic support to the teachers is found to be given in five schools (RMSA Secondary School

Mangalpur, Old Government School Bor, RMSA Secondary School Madadara, RMSA Secondary

School Apruji and Old Government School Barkunda) though not on regular basis.

6. Is remedial teaching including zero classes, extra classes etc. arranged for academically weaker

students? If yes, the frequency thereof and the positive results, if any, obtained by such teaching

Extra classes for academically weaker students are found to be organized in ten schools. Out of which

eight schools are organizing extra classes on weekly basis while RMSA Secondary School Mangalpur

and RMSA Secondary School Jalampura are organizing extra classes on monthly basis. All ten schools

found positive result and extra preparation for board exam among students due to their participation in

extra classes.

7. Method of evaluation being followed in the school/ classroom.

All schools are found to be following marking followed by grading as the method for evaluation.

8. Participation level of the CWSN in classroom processes & efforts made to optimize it.

Eleven children (9 Boys and 2 Girls) with special needs (CWSN) are found in five schools (Old

Government School Bavara, RMSA Secondary School Chapara, RMSA Secondary School Gutal, Old

Government School Jakhed and Old Government School Bor). Out of 9 boys 4 belonged to OH

category, 3 are MR and 2 boys belonged to the multiple disability category. Out of two girls one is OH

and another belongs to multiple disability category. All CWSN students are found to be participative in

classroom activities. Three teachers are found to have received special training for teaching CWSN in

Old Government School Bor and Old Government School Golaj. Participation levels of the CWSN in

classroom processes are found to be good in 3 schools out of five schools with CWSN. There are no

noticeable efforts made to optimize it and there is no visit of Resource Teachers (RTs) in any of the

RMSA schools with CWSN.

9. Is Peer interaction with CWSN Friendly, Neutral or Taunting/teasing/bullying?

The peer interaction with CWSN was found to be either friendly or neutral in all schools with CWSN.

10. Are Individualized Educational Plan (IEPs) prepared for CWSN.

No school has prepared any Individualized Educational Plan (IEPs) for CWSN.

11. Are adequate facilities for seating CWSN provided?

There is no special provision for seating arrangement for CWSN. They avail the same facilities as

availed by other children in the school. .

12. What is the extent and nature of use of ICT devices for teaching & learning of CWSN?

ICT devices for teaching & learning of CWSN are not found in any of the schools.

III. Teacher’s Training

1. What are the provisions for in-service training of teachers? Frequency & duration thereof. Has

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the state prepared targeted annual plan for in-service teachers training to improve quality and

skills?

In-Service training of teachers was found in all the schools. All the teachers have received Karmyogi

(called as ‘Shikshak Sajjatta’) training which is conducted for 5 days in two phases. 1st phase was

conducted from 15th-19th January, 2013 & the 2nd phase was from 21-25th January, 2013. Training for

the Science & Technology was given to 30 teachers on 14th October, 2013. Training for the Social

Science was given to 30 teachers on 13th November, 2013 in Kheda district. The teachers were

provided lodging and boarding facility during the training as well as TA as per the norm. The state is in

the process of preparing targeted annual plan for in-service teachers training to improve quality and

skills for the coming academic year.

2. Whether training received includes training for dealing with CWSN students?

The regular training received by the teachers does not include training for dealing with CWSN students.

However limited numbers of teachers have availed 2 days IED training at the block level & it is not

found to be sufficient to handle the CWSN.

3. Whether training provided has improved the confidence level of the teachers to handle

classrooms with these children?

Confidence level of teachers who have received the IED training was found to be more in comparison to

the untrained teachers to handle CWSN.

4. Quality and adequacy of facilities available (space, projection, tools, equipment's) for training.

Training facilities such as separate room for training, projector are not found to be available in any of

the school. However facilities like space, projection, tools and equipment are provided during in-

service teachers training in the training premise.

5. Whether training modules are need based or not?

The teachers have communicated to the MI that the training modules are found to be need based,

however there is scope for further improvement. Additional components like computer education,

training for CWSN can also be included in the training module.

6. Are teachers trained using new technologies like Computer assisted Learning (CAL), LCD

projector etc. for imparting lessons in the classroom?

None of the teachers have received any training to use new technologies like Computer assisted

Learning (CAL), LCD projector etc. for imparting lessons in the classroom. However few teachers have

learnt the skill through their own initiatives like it was found among some teachers in RMSA Secondary

School Lilva and Old Government School Bor.

7. Are the trainers from the secondary schools/higher institutions or other academic institutions?

Training is found to be given by the Key Resource Persons (KRPs). KRPs can be College teachers/

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Principals, high school teachers with good training and communication skill. In addition any retired or

experienced person from education Department can be called for teachers training and the training of

RPs.

8. Any other issues related with teacher's Training of secondary education.

Teachers training should have more practical orientation. Teacher’s Training should have components

that can cater to the need of disadvantaged groups.

6. CIVIL WORKS


In none of the visited schools in Kheda district civil work has been initiated. For 9 new RMSA schools

the land allotment for construction of school building is required. Out of these 9 schools, the land has

been allotted for 6 schools. However, the construction has not yet started. For 3 schools the land

allotment is still pending.

1. Year of Establishment

The year of establishment for all the schools in Kheda district is 2011.

2. Year of construction

The construction for all the new RMSA secondary school building is yet to begin as mentioned above.

3. Number of Classrooms for class IX and class X

In all new RMSA schools the class rooms are adjusted with the existing Govt. UPS where schools under

RMSA & SSA are managed together. Two classrooms each for IX and X standard are available for

most of the visited schools.

4. Area of the School

All the new RMSA schools do not have their own building and they are functioning in the existing

Govt. UPS. Therefore the record for the area of school is not available for these schools. The Old Govt.

Schools are operating in single structure or double storied building. The total area in these schools range

from 4000-6000 square feet. In most of the Old Govt. Schools the playground area is found to be

inadequate.

II. Design

1. Type of building (Pucca/ Semi-pucca/Kutcha)

All the eight schools (Old Government schools) have pucca building. However the 9 new RMSA school

are working in the Govt. Upper Primary School building and all these are also pucca building.

2. Physical condition of building (Cracks/ Damp/Seepages/ Damages in Plaster)

Physical conditions of the schools are found to be normal except RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur

where cracks were visible in the school building.

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3. Any local innovative approaches in school building design, please mention it.

No local innovative approach is found in design of school building in any of the schools.

4. Whether natural light & cross ventilation is available or not, if not, the reasons thereof,

and the steps taken by school authorities to rectify it.

Natural lights and cross ventilation is found in all the schools except 4 schools (RMSA Secondary

School Bhumas, Old Government School Nanavaga, Old Government School Andhari Amali and

RMSA Secondary School Jalampura). No steps have been taken by school authorities to rectify the

prevailing condition as it could involve the demolition.

5. Is there any lighting facility in the class room? Is it functional, if not -why? Is the power supply

continuous or intermittent? If intermittent, what is the duration for which electricity is available

in the school?

Electricity facility is found to be functional in 14 schools. In one of the schools (Old Government

School, Jakhed) the electricity connection is found to be non-functional. In 2 schools (RMSA Secondary

School, Bhumas & Old Government School, Nanavaga) electricity facility is not available. Availability

of power supply is found to be intermittent in 5 schools (RMSA Secondary School, Gutal; RMSA

Secondary School, Jalampura; Old Government School, Andhari Amali; RMSA Secondary School

Mangalpur, and Old Government School, Bor) for about 1-2 hours daily.

6. Is there provision of alternative electric power supply like generator, invertors,

gobar-gas plant, solar panels, wind electricity etc. if so, give details thereof and comment on

the -condition of their usability?

None of the school has any provision of alternative power supply facility as cited above.

7. Library Design-a) Is sufficient seating space, light, ventilation available? b) Regular pest

control is carried out or not.

Most of the Old Government RMSA schools have library facility. The library in these schools is found

with proper lighting, adequate ventilation and adequate seating space. Pest control is carried out

occasionally if there is any problem identified.

8. Laboratory Design- Please comment on-

a. Adequate space for all subjects (Physics, Chemistry, Biology & other subject) b. Proper

height (3ft) of the laboratory table, c. Cross ventilation and exhaust fan. d. Availability of

running water.

Most of the Old Govt Schools under RMSA are found to have Laboratory however, it is a common

laboratory for Physics, Chemistry, Biology & other subject. The space is found to be inadequate for all

the subjects in these schools. Cross ventilation is found to be present however, the provision of exhaust

fan is found to be missing in all the schools with laboratory. There is not found to be any provision of

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running water in all the schools with laboratory. None of the new RMSA school is found to be having

any laboratory.

9. Facilities for Physically Challenged

a. Are the ramps for physically challenged students to access the entrance of the

school, drinking water facilities, toilet facilities, science lab, mathematic lab, libraries, auditorium,

and playground available?

All the schools visited by the MI have ramp facility. However, the ramps are not found to be available

in all the above mentioned places in the visited schools. The ramp facility is found to be available at

entrance to access the class rooms in most of the visited schools. Only in 03 schools ramp was found to

be available for CWSN near water tank for drinking and at the entrance of the toilet.

b. Are the benches of different height available in the class room?

The benches of different height are not found to be available in the classroom in any of the visited

schools with CWSN.

c. Please comment if the slope of the ramp is adequate and whether ramps have been provided

with the hand rails.

Three schools (RMSA Secondary School, Chapra; Old Government School, Jakhed and Old

Government School, Bor) have ramps with adequate slope and handrail. MI did not find any uniform

construction of the ramps with regard to length and width. The ramp design was different from each

other in many schools.

10. Drinking Water Facility

a. Source of drinking water (Supply Water/ Tube Well/ Dug Well/Other). Is sufficient water

available across all the seasons?

All schools have drinking water facility except 3 schools (RMSA Secondary School Jalampura, Old

Government School Andheri Amli and RMSA Secondary School Mangalpur). Five schools have Supply

water (from Water department) while rest of the schools have tube well as the source of water.

b. Type of water storage facility and its condition & cleaning schedule,

All schools are found to store drinking water. The condition of water tank is found to be good in 3

schools (Old Government School Porada, Fagvel; Old Government School, Nanavaga and Old

Government School, Jakhed). While RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur; RMSA Se

condary School, Lilva and Old Government School, Bor are found with poor condition of water tank.

Rests of the schools have average condition with regard to cleanliness and maintenance. Seven schools

have reported to get the water tank cleaned monthly while remaining schools get it cleaned twice in a

year.

c. Is quality of drinking water satisfactory? Write measures taken by school authorities to

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ensure clean drinking water and treatment & testing of water.

All schools are found with safe drinking water except RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa; RMSA

Secondary School, Bhumas and RMSA Secondary School, Chapara due to high salt contents.

Cleanliness and treatment of drinking water is used to be ensured by putting chlorine tablets in water

tank and using R.O plant in four schools (Old Government School, Nanavaga; Old Government School,

Jakhed; Old Government School, Golaj and RMSA Secondary School, Madadara). Testing of water

through the help of professionals to ensure the quality was not found in any of the visited schools.

d. Are sufficient numbers of drinking -water taps available in school?

In 9 schools the number of taps was found to be insufficient to cater to the need of the number of

children enrolled.

11. Sanitation Facility

a. Whether adequate numbers of urinal / lavatories are available for girls, boys, teachers and

other workers in the school? If not, please specify shortcoming?

Eleven schools have toilet facility. However, six schools (RMSA Secondary School, Chapara; RMSA

Secondary School, Gutal; RMSA Secondary School, Jalampura; Old Government School, Andhari

Amali; RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa) do not have toilet facility for students enrolled in classes

under RMSA. In most of the schools, the toilet and urinal facility is found to be insufficient to cater to

the need of the children enrolled in the school. The insufficiencies of the urinal / lavatories create

inconvenience for girls, boys, teachers and other staff members in the school.

b. Please comment on the Maintenance/ cleanliness of toilets and supply of water

Running water in toilets is found in only five schools (RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur; Old

Government School, Jakhed; RMSA Secondary School, Apruji; RMSA Secondary School, Madadara

and Old Government School, Golaj) and toilets are cleaned and maintained in these schools. In rest of

the visited schools the toilets are not cleaned and maintained properly.

c. Is there any separate toilet for girls? Is the location of the girl's toilet safer? Please comment

on the availability of the Sanitary napkins & dustbins in the school,

Among 11 schools with toilet facility, two schools (Old Government School, Bavara and Old

Government School, Barkunda) do not have separate toilets for boys and girls. Location of girls’ toilet

is found to be safe in all the schools except in RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur and Old

Government School, Nanavaga. Sanitary napkins were not found to be available in any of the visited

RMSA schools. Few dustbins are found to be available in seven schools (Old Government School

,Bavara; RMSA Secondary School, Lilva; Old Government School, Jakhed; Old Government School,

Golaj; RMSA Secondary School, Apruji; RMSA Secondary School, Madadara and Old Government

School, Barkunda).

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d. Is there any provision in toilets for physically challenged students?

There is no special provision of toilets for physically challenged students in any of RMSA Schools.

They use the same toilet used by other students.

e. Are lavatories single pit/ double pit attached with septic tank? Is septic tank cleaned regularly?

Four schools are found to have single pit (RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur; Old Government

School, Porda Fagvel; Old Government School, Bavara & RMSA Secondary School, Lilava). While

rests of the schools have double pit attached with septic tank. All the schools with toilet facility were

found to have attached septic tank. The septic tanks are cleaned in the schools as per the requirement.

12. Drainage System

a. Whether drainage facility is available in the school. If yes, Type of drains (Underground/ Pucca

& Covered/Pucca & Open/ Kutcha & Open)

Seven schools are found without drainage facility (RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur; Old

Government School, Porda Fagvel; Old Government School, Nanavaga; RMSA Secondary School,

Gutal; RMSA Secondary School, Jalampura; Old Government School, Andheri Amali and Old

Government School, Bor). Three schools (Old Government School, Bavara; Old Government School,

Jakhed and RMSA Secondary School, Lilava) have Kutcha and open drainage system.Remaining seven

schools are found to have underground with Pucca & Covered drainage facility.

b. Please comment on the structural condition and regular cleaning of drains in the school. Is

there any instance of water logging?

Out of 11 schools with drainage system, drains are cleaned on monthly basis in six schools (Old

Government School, Barkunda, RMSA Secondary School, Madadara; Old Government School, Golaj;

RMSA Secondary School, Apruji; RMSA Secondary School, Lilava and Old Government School

,Jakhed). However, the Old Government School, Bavara get drains cleaned occasionally. In 4 schools

(RMSA Secondary School, Bhumas; RMSA Secondary School, Madadara; RMSA Secondary School,

Apruji and Old Government School, Bharkunda) MI could find instances of water logging during

monsoon season.

13. Waste water treatment/ discharge/ disposal of solid waste

a. Whether waste water treatment & discharge arrangement is available in school. If yes, the

type of drainage system, i.e. Septic Tank/ Municipal Drain/Open Field

In none of the visited schools in this district the waste water treatment /discharge/disposal is found.

b. Is there any waste collection facility available in the school? Please comment on the

adequacy and condition of bins,

Adequate bins are available for garbage collection in four schools (Old Government School, Bavara,

RMSA Secondary School, Bhumas, RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa and Old Government School,

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Golaj). The condition of waste collection bins was found to be average.

c. Is there any facility for treatment of waste and composting of organic waste?

None of the schools is found to have facility for treatment and composing of organic waste.

14. Water & energy conservation

a. Availability of Water Conservation Measures

Availability of Rain water harvesting structure if any. If yes, is it in the working condition and

whether the stored water is consumable?

None of the RMSA schools is found to have rain water harvesting facility available in school. Hence a

water conservation measure was found to be ignored in most of the schools.

b. Type of lighting facility used {Ordinary Bulb/ Ordinary Tube / CFL) b. Are

teachers & school management aware of the possibility of use of renewable sources of energy

including gobar-gas plant, solar energy, wind energy etc. and if the same is being utilized.

Lighting facility is found to be different in all the schools. Most of the schools are found to be using

ordinary tube lights/bulbs. Some of the teachers in five schools (RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur;

Old Government School, Porada Fagvel; RMSA Secondary School, Chapara; RMSA Secondary School,

Rohisa & RMSA Secondary School, Lilava) are found to be aware of the use of renewable source of

energy like gobar-gas plant, solar energy and wind energy etc. However, in none of these schools

renewable source of energy are found to be utilized.

15. Safety aspect of Building Design

a. Is the physical condition of the building good? Is there any special structural facility to

cope with natural hazard (flood/ cyclone/ earthquake)?

Physical condition of building is found to be good in 7 visited schools. Any special structural facility to

cope with natural hazard was not found in any of the visited schools except the provision of fire

extinguishers.

b. Whether the width of the stair case is sufficient or not & alternative exit gates are available

for emergency evacuation in the case of double storied structure.

The width of the stair case was found to be sufficient in the schools with staircase facility. However,

alternative exit gates are not available for emergency evacuation in the case of double storied

structure.

c. Is the disaster preparedness plan & emergency evacuation plan available in the school?

Whether all students & teachers are aware of it & trained to handle the disaster situations,

There is no disaster preparedness plan & emergency evacuation plan available in any of the visited

schools. Students are not found to be aware of it & they have not been taught in the classes about this

subject. None of the teachers have received any training to handle the disaster situations in the visited

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schools. Hence their awareness is found to be limited.

d. Whether fire extinguishers (s) are available in the labs, kitchen etc. in the school and are in

working condition? Whether the school authorities including students are trained in using the

fire extinguishers in case of eventuality,

Fire extinguishers are available in all the school. However, it is not located in the kitchen. In most of

school (12 schools) it is kept in HM/staff room or common lobby. The school staffs in some schools are

found to be trained for using the fire extinguishers in case of eventuality. However, the students

are not found to be trained for using it.

e. Whether contact numbers for Ambulance, Fire Brigade and nearby Hospital is available

and displayed in school.

In 8 schools the contact numbers for Ambulance and Fire Brigade is found to be present. The contact

number of nearest hospital is found in 7 schools. However, in none of the schools these numbers are

fund to be displayed on school wall or notice board.

III. Schools with Ongoing Construction Activity

None of the RMSA Schools is found with Ongoing Construction Activity. In Kheda district, out of 9

new RMSA schools, the land allocation for school building is completed for 6 schools. However, the

construction is yet to begin.

1. Whether sufficient measures are being taken by the school authorities to ensure that

a. Construction activity undergoing in school does not hamper academic activities in school?

b. Does not vitiate air, water & land quality in school & noise level is within permissible limit,

c. Construction material is being stored appropriately,

d. Temporary fencing of construction area is done.

The above mentioned 4 points are not applicable as the construction is yet to begin in all the new RMSA

school.

2. Procurement Aspects:

a. Whether same contractor is doing the work to whom the work was awarded?

b. What is stage of construction? Whether construction work done is in line with lay out plan?

c. Whether members of community through SMDC are involved in procurement process?

d. Whether sub-Committee viz. construction committee has been constituted or not?

e. Whether

Books of A/c related to civil works maintained/ updated or not.

Measurement book is maintained for civil works or not?

Payment has been made to the contractor or agency is in accordance with the

measurement book or not?

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Material stocked is in line with the stock register or not.

Cheque issue register is maintained or not?

f. Whether quality of construction and the construction material being used is up to the mark.

g. Whether physical receipt/existence of material matches with entry made in Assets register.

h. Number of times technical persons have visited construction site and authentication done

i. The system of fund flow & time take to transfer funds in account of SMDC.

j. Any good practices in civil works which can be replicated in other places/in other States.

The above mentioned points are not applicable as the construction is yet to begin in all the new RMSA

schools.

7. COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION/ PARTICIPATION

1. Are SMDC members familiar with

a. Their roles and responsibilities as notified by the State Government,

The SMDC members are not found to be familiar with their roles and responsibilities as notified by the

state Government in 5 schools (Old Government School, Andhari Amli; Old Government School Bor

RMSA Secondary School Bhumas, RMSA Secondary School Apruji and RMSA Secondary School,

Madadara).

b. The SEMIS data captures format, school report card and SMDC Register,

In most of the schools (12 schools) the SMDC members are not found to be familiar with the SEMIS

data captures format and school report card. However, the SMDC members are found to be familiar

with the SMDC Register

c. The guidelines regarding School Development Plan & training received by them.

The SMDC members are not found to be familiar with the guidelines regarding School Development

Plan (SDP) in any of the new RMSA schools. However, in 3 schools some of the SMDC members who

have received the training are found to be familiar with guidelines regarding School Development Plan.

2. Frequency of SMDCs meetings held & issues discussed thereof. Average attendance of the

SMDC Members.

The meeting of the SMDC is held quarterly in 5 schools, monthly in 8 schools and yearly in 2 schools.

No meeting of the SMDC is reported in 2 schools by the MI. In 13 schools the proceedings record is

found to be maintained. Some of the issues discussed include student result, enrolment drive and

students’ attendance, S.S.C exams, teachers’ requirement, school discipline, teachers’ training, girls’

education etc. Average attendance of SMDC members in the meetings is found to be more than 70

percent.

3. What are the roles of SMDCs members in monitoring of teachers and students attendance?

The SMDC members are monitoring the students’ attendance in most of the schools though not

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regularly. The teachers’ attendance is rarely monitored in all the visited schools. However, no record for

the same is found in the schools.

4. Whether the SMDC members are participating in preparation of AWP&B.

In 3 schools the SMDC member is found to be participating in preparation of AWP&B . However, their

participation was found to be limited due to inadequate training.

5. Whether members of the SMDC have received any training? If so, how many members?

None of the SMDC members have recievd any training in this year due to non-availability of funds in

these districts.

6. When these trainings were held? Who conducted the trainings? What is the SMDCs

members’ perception of the trainings?

No training was held in this year due to non-availability of funds for SMDC training.


1. Has the Master list of all schools (including private) been prepared?

The master list of all the Govt. schools has been prepared. The U-DISE record was found to be ready at

the district office.

2. Have the Data Capture Formats (DCF) been distributed to all schools? If no, why.

Data Capture Format (DCF) for this academic year has been distributed to all schools in September,

2013.

3. What kind of training on filling up of DCF was provided to the teacher/head teacher?

Four days training has been provided to the head teacher on filling up of DCF in all Old Govt. Schools

under RMSA.

4. Has Data been received from all the schools in the Data Capture Formats for including

information for the current year, reasons for delay if any?

The data has been received from all the schools in the Data Capture Formats for the current year. This

record is submitted to the MIS, SSA Office for the data entry and processing.

5. Do schools have a copy of the filled-in Data Capture Formats (DCF) for record and reference?

In 6 schools (RMSA Secondary School Mangalpur, Old Government School Porada Fagvel, RMSA

Secondary School Bhumas, RMSA Secondary School Gutal, Old Government School Jalampura, and

RMSA Secondary School Rohisa) a copy of the filled in DCF for current year 2013-14 is not found to

be available. As told to the MI the DCF forms of these new RMSA schools are with the District

Education Office (DEO) for ongoing sample check.

6. Is the school report card generated and distributed to all schools after data entry?

School report card was generated and distributed to seven schools (Old Government School Bavara,

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Old Government School Andhari Amali, RMSA Secondary School Lilava, Old Government School

Golaj, RMSA Secondary School Madadara, RMSA Secondary School Apruji and Old Government

School Barkunda).

7. Have Sample checks been done after receiving of filled-in Data Capture format (DCFs) from

schools? What are the findings?

The Sample checks are ongoing and managed by the SSA Office after receiving filled-in Data Capture

format (DCFs) from schools. The findings are yet to be received by the RMSA district office.

8. Has the data been submitted to the State as per time schedule?

The Data from the SSA Office is yet to be submitted to the State RMSA Office.

9. At which level the data is being analyzed and disseminated?

The data is being analyzed and disseminated from SSA Office to the State RMSA Office directly.

Therefore the District office has no information with regard to the data analysis and its dissemination.

10. Are the school authorities aware of the importance of the data collected under MIS and are

they using this data?

In most of the visited schools, authorities are aware of the importance of data and use this data for

planning and budgeting.

11. Is SEMIS/UDISE data used for planning and budgeting?

The UDISE data is found to be used for planning and budgeting in most of the schools.

12. Is the backup of the data supplied under SEMIS/UDISE properly maintained?

Backup of data supplied under UDISE is found to be properly maintained by five schools (Old

Government School Bavara, Old Government School Andhari Amali, Old Government School Jakhed,

RMSA Secondary School Lilava and Old Government School Golaj).

9. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

1. Nature of financial records and registers maintained specially cash book - is it maintained on

daily basis and is the bank reconciliation carried out on monthly basis?

Financial registers such as cashbook and pass book were found to be available though not maintained

and updated in most of the schools. The Asset register was available in three schools (RMSA Secondary

School Chapara, RMSA Secondary School Rohisa and RMSA Secondary School Lilava). It is not found

to be maintained on daily basis in any of the visited schools.

2. Mode of transfer of funds to the SMDC from the State/ District level.

The common mode of transfer of funds to SMDC from state/ district level was found to be e-transfer.

3. Type of funds/grants received by the school, details thereof.

All the 09 Old Govt. schools have received the School annual grant for the year 2012-13. The Pravas

Grant (Excursion trip grant), SMDC training grant, Climate awareness grant have been received by all

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the schools. None of the school has received minor repairing grant.

4. System for the withdrawal and payment of fund from the SMDC account (Cash/ Cheque).

The process of withdrawal of funds and payment of funds from SMDC account is found to be done

through cheque mode. The HM and one of the members of the SMDC were found to be the common

drawing and disbursing authority in all the Old Government schools. However, in all RMSA secondary

schools the funds are managed by the DEO/Office.

5. Whether the proposal for expenditure and expenditure statements are shared with the

community. If yes, is there any instance of community expressing objection/reservation about

any transaction?

In Seven Schools (RMSA Secondary School Mangalpur, Old Government School Porada fagvel, Old

Government School Nanavaga, RMSA Secondary School Gutal, RMSA Secondary School Jalampura,

Old Government School Jakhed and Old Government School Golaj), the SMDC is found to share the

proposals for expenditure and expenditure statements in 2013-14 with community. There is no instance

of community expressing objection/reservation about any transaction in these schools. The proposal for

expenditure and expenditure statements are not applicable to all the new RMSA schools (08 schools) as

the fund is managed by District Education Office under RMSA.

6. Whether the SDMC is covered by audit. If yes, were the audit observations shared with the

community.

The SMDC is found to be covered by the audit in seven schools (RMSA Secondary School Mangalpur,

Old Government School Porada fagvel, RMSA Secondary School Gutal, RMSA Secondary School

Jalampura, Old Government School Andhari Amali, Old Government School Jakhed and Old

Government School Golaj). However, in none of the visited school the audit observations were found to

be shared with the community. The audit record of Scool Annual Grant was not found in any of the new

RMSA schools as the fund is managed by District Education Office under RMSA.

7. Is social audit being done (Display of financial information- receipts and payments, on the

notice board/ wall of the school).

No social auditing was reported for any of the visited schools. None of the visited schools is found to

display the financial information-receipts and payments on the notice boards/ wall of the visited schools.

8. Report any instance of community mobilizing resources for the school.

Three schools (RMSA Secondary School Madadra, Old Government School Bavara, RMSA Secondary

School Gutal) are found with instances of donations from the community for schools during 2013-14.

9. Status of Utilization Certificates submitted by SDMC: period for which it has been submitted to

District Project Office.

In seven schools (RMSA Secondary School Mangalpur, Old Government School Porda Fagvel, Old

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Government School Bavara, RMSA Secondary School Gutal, RMSA Secondary School Jalampura, Old

Government School Andhari Amali, and RMSA Secondary School Lilava) the SMDC has submitted

their Utilization Certificate (UC) to the District Education Office during March to December 2013. The

UC for the said grant has not been submitted in any of the new RMSA schools as the fund is managed

by District Education Office under RMSA.

10. Comment on the process of settlement of advance and collection of Utilization Certificate by

SPO and DPO

The SMDC account in all the new RMSA schools are managed by District Education Office (DEO)

under RMSA. The Utilization Certificate of all the RMSA schools is prepared and submitted to the

DEO for settlement of advance.

11. A Financial statement for the SMDC/ DPO/ SPO may be provided as on date in the format

given below:

Data

Name of

the Unit:

A Opening Balance

as on 1st April of the

year

B Funds

received

1/4/12-31/3/13

C=A+B Total Fund

available till that

date

D

Expendit

ure

E=C-D Closing

balance as on

SMDC 8,50000 4,50000 13,00000 8,50000 4,50000

DPO Annexure attached

SPO Annexure D for details

Note: i. The quarter wise financial status of RMSA at SPO level as on 30.09.2013 is attached as

Annexure-D

ii. Statement Showing School Wise School Annual Grant: Kheda is attached as Annexure 1.3.1

iii. Statement showing school wise excursion trip expense for all the schools in Kheda district is

attached as Annexure 1.3.2

In all the new RMSA schools the funds and their utilization is managed by District Education Office

(DEO) and not by the SMDC.

10. SCHOOL ANNUAL GRANT

1. When was the School Annual Grant received by the school?

Out of the total visited schools, 09 schools are found to receive school annual grant in April 2013.

However, this grant was the pending amount for the year 2012-13.

2. Please comment on the status of utilization of funds (% of the Total) and whether the utilization

has been done as per norms of the scheme.

Most of the new RMSA schools do not have the record about date of receiving annual grant as their

funds are managed by the district RMSA Office/DEO. The school principal doesn’t have the access to

the funds as the schools are running in the government upper primary schools (UPSs). All school

utilized the amount as per their requirements as per norms (53% of the total expenditure).

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11. MINOR REPAIR GRANT

1. When was the School Repairing Grant received by the school?

Minor Repair Grant has not been released to any of the existing RMSA schools as these schools do not

have their own building. None of the Old government RMSA schools have received minor repair grant

in this year.



None of the Old government schools have received minor repair grant this year in this district.

3. Was the funds utilized for repair and white wash of the school building?

Utilization of grants for repair and white wash of the school building is not applicable to any of the

existing RMSA schools as these schools do not have their own building. Some of the old government

schools have used this grant for repair work and white wash of the school building. However, in some

of these schools this grant is yet to be utilized.

12. INNOVATIONS

1. Details of innovative proposals undertaken during the current financial year (District-wise).

None of the visited school is found to have prepared any innovative proposals undertaken during the

current financial year.

2. Details of number of innovative proposals sanctioned in the previous calendar year and the

status of implementation.



3. Monitoring institutions should review the progress of all innovative activities taken

up in a district or has been completed with respect to innovative activities funded from the

innovation component under RMSA.

a.What are the main reasons and why the objectives have not been met in case so?

Fund have not been sanctioned for the said purpose and DEO has not been able to meet the objectives

b. Whether effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms have been put in place?

No effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms have been put in place due to non-availability of

funds.

c. Whether the activity’s objectives have been met?

The objectives have not been met for any innovative activity.

d. Identify any successful element that can be scaled up under RMSA.

The MI has not identified any successful element that can be scaled up under RMSA as no innovative

activity has taken place in the district.

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13. MANAGEMENT/ MONITORING/ EVALUATION AND RESEARCH

I. Staffing pattern

1. The total number of staff sanctioned category wise in the State/ District office under RMSA

and the number in position and action taken to fill up the vacancies?

At state level 15 post are in position. Out of these 12 posts are filled and 03 posts (one -MIS project

coordinator; one civil work project coordinator and one Account assistant) are lying vacant. However,

these 3 positions have been advertised in the local daily newspaper.

Data

Category State Level District Level

Total Sanctioned Post 15 02

In Position 12 02

Vacant 03 00

2. Specify Nature of engagement-(On Deputation/ Contract)

At State level, out of 12 filled in post, only one post is on deputation basis and rest of other are on

contractual basis. However, at district level, both the posts (one DC and one computer operator) are

contractual.

3. Whether the component wise (Finance, Civil, Quality, Equity, Gender, Pedagogy

Planning etc.) personnel are in place at State/District level? If not, whether there is an

alternative arrangement?

Seven project coordinator post one each for Tender & Procurement, Planning & Training, Finance,

MIS, Yoga, Civil & Monitoring & Evaluation are sanctioned. However, Project Coordinator post for

Civil & MIS are vacant. There is no post sanctioned for the components- Gender and Equity (pls see

Annexure-E).

4. Is the administrative staff available or not? If not, comment on the alternative arrangements

made.

One office assistant and one stenographer are appointed at State level.

5. Are the officials and staff clear about the objectives, targets and goals of the programme and

their role in the management structure?

The officials and staff at state level are clear to some extent about the objectives, targets and goals of

the programmed and their role in the management structure. However, they need more orientation

regarding the same.

II. Monitoring Strategy

1. What are the monitoring tools/ mechanism (reports, visits etc.) used at school and district level

to ensure effective implementation of the scheme. Please give details along with time schedules.

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The district coordinator (DC) is expected to visit 2 schools per week. The visit of the DEO is occasional

& as per the need. Monitoring format (Surprise Visit Form) has been developed at the State level for

district visit. The surprise visit from covers various components like basic information of the school,

teachers information, physical facilities, education related activities, ICT School project, review of

different Educational Committees, Classrooms, result of last 5 years and analysis of different work done

using different school grants.

2. Are the monitoring guidelines laid down?

The monitoring guidelines have not been found in the district office.

III. Management Systems

1. What are the facilities available in the Academic Institutions - District Institute of Education

& Training (DIET), State Council of Education Research & Training (SCERT)) etc.?

State RMSA does not have direct connection with District Institute of Education & Training (DIET),

State Council of Education Research & Training (SCERT)) etc. however, they take their expertise

in preparation of teachers’ training module. They also help in training the master trainers or the Key

Resource Persons (KRPs). The state level training for the KRPs is imparted at IL & FS Education and

Technology Services Limited.

2. What other essential facilities are required?

Recruitment of the permanent teaching staff as well as science and math’s teachers at school level is

required in all the RMSA schools. The construction of the own building of RMSA schools should begin

to have smooth functioning at school level.

IV. State Database

1. Whether school mapping has been completed. If not, on what basis State/UT are developing

their annual/perspective plan for access. Please also specify mechanism other than GIS mapping

adopted by the State.

School mapping work is still in the process It is being done by an organization, BISEC.

2. Whether the database mechanism (MIS) at District level is in place or not? If not what are the

sources of data used for plan preparation at District level?

The database mechanism SEMIS has been replaced as UDISE and it is in place

3. What are the major issues in collecting and compilation of data at school and district level?

With the help of UDISE, the block level data has been prepared. However, the district level data will be

ready by end of January, 2014.

V. Research

1. Details of Research Projects to be undertaken during the current financial year district-wise

and the purpose of research.

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No Research Project has been undertaken during the current financial year at the district level.

2. Whether the Research Advisory Committee has been formed?

The Research Advisory Committee has not been formed.

3. What kind of research need has been felt and at what level?

No research need has been identified so far in the district.

4. Whether Action Research is being conducted or not by the teachers/external agencies for

finding out solutions to users pertaining to pedagogy/quality.

No action research has been conducted by the teachers/external agencies for finding out solutions to

users pertaining to pedagogy/quality.

14. ANY OTHER ISSUES RELEVANT TO RMSA IMPLEMENTATION

MI may give a maximum 2 page note, on any other issues, relevant to RMSA

implementation, not covered above.

Problems :

Infrastructure: None of the new RMSA secondary Schools have their own building.

They are functioning in Government Upper primary Schools (UPS). In this situation

both the schools face problem accommodating entire students, teacher etc. Lack of

own school building is found to be the major problems faced by the school students

and the teachers. The staff and students of the new RMSA schools do not feel any

belongingness. They keep thinking that they would be shifted at any moment and this

is a temporary arrangement for them. All the 9 new RMSA schools in Kheda district

face problems like absence of toilet facility, lack of subject specific teachers, lack of

library and science laboratory etc.

Monitoring Strategy: In Kheda district the visit of the District Coordinator (DC) is

found to be irregular.

CWSN: There is no provision of the Resource Teachers (RTs) for CWSN in any of

the visited schools under RMSA.

Grants: The grant is managed by the District Education Office in all the new RMSA

schools. Annual grant is mostly utilized for furniture & benches for the students.

Excursion Grant: The student excursion grant is received in all 17 visited schools.

However, it is not utilised in 10 schools (Annexure 1.3.2).

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Strengths

Old Government School Porada Fagvel has participated at district level cultural

programme.

Old Government School Bavra has arranged science fair trips for the students.

RMSA Secondary School, Chapra has organized free eyes camp, and health checkup

camp. In this school a Yuvak Mandal (Youth Group) teaches Science and

Mathematics to the students for free.

In RMSA Secondary School Lilava yoga classes and sports classes are arranged for

the students.

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Annexure 1.1 List of School covered under RMSA: Kheda District

Annexure 1.2 Copy of Office Order, Notification, etc.: Kheda District

1.2.1: State Circular for Schools Regarding DISE Form :

Sr. No. Name of School U-DISE

Code

Cluster Block standard

1. Old Government School, Bavara 24160500602 Kachchai Mehmadabad 1 to 10th

2. Old Government School, Golaj 24160902403 Pipalvada Thasra 9 to 10th

3. Old Government School, Porda Fagvel 24160305002 Fagvel Kathlal 9 to 10th

4. Old Government School, Jakhed 24160906706 Rakhiyal Thasra 9 to 10th

5. Old Government School, Barkunda 24160300704 Chhipiyal Kathlal 9 to 10th

6. Old Government School, Andhariamli 24160804607 Sodpur Nadiad 9 to 10th

7. Old Government School, Nanavaga 24160803305 Paldi Nadiad 9 to 10th

8. Old Government School, Bor 24161000511 Bor Virpur 9 to 10th

9. RMSA Secondary School, Madadara 24160303902 Apruji Kathalal 9 to 10th

10. RMSA Secondary School, Apruji 24160300408 Apruji Kathalal 9 to 10th

11. RMSA Secondary School, Lilva 24160301607 Ananra Kathalal 9 to 10th

12. RMSA Secondary School, Jalampura 24160502002 Kuna Mahmdavad 9 to 10th

13. RMSA Secondary School, Chapra 24160500804 Chapra Mahmdavad 9 to 10 th

14. RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa 24160504403 Sansoli Mahmdavad 9 to 10th

15. RMSA Secondary School, Bhumas 24160600503 Dadusar Mahudha 9 to 10th

16. RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur 24160602202 Singhali Mahudha 9 to 10th

17. RMSA Secondary School, Gutal 24160801802 Piplata Nadiyad 9 to 10th

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(Received from RMSA Secondary School, Gutal)

1.2.2: CWSN Certificate: (Received from Old Government School, Bor)

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1.2.3: Filled-in DISE Form: (Received from RMSA Secondary School, Gutal)

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1.2.4: School Leaving Certificate: (Received from RMSA Secondary School, Bhumas)

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Annexure 1.3.1 Statement Showing School Wise School Annual Grant: Kheda

Source: District Education Office (DEO): Kheda

Sr.No. School Name

Grant

Received for year

2011-12

Grant

Received for year

2012-13

Received Expense Received Expense

1 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,GOLAJ 50000 50000 0 0

2 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,LILVA 50000 50000 50000 50000

3

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,MADADRA 50000 50000 50000 44194

4

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,MANGALPUR 50000 48772 50000 39994

5

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,NANVAGHA 50000 50000 0 0

6

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,JAKHEDA 50000 50000 0 0

7

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,PORDAFAGVEL 50000 50000 0 0

8 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,APRUJI 50000 50000 50000 39994

9 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,ROHISA 50000 50000 50000 40794

10

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,ANDHARI AMLI 50000 50000 0 0

11

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,BHUMAS 50000 46751 50000 39994

12 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,BOR 50000 50000 0 0

13 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,BAVRA 50000 50000 0 0

14

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,CHAPRA 50000 44882 50000 39994

15 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,GUTAL 50000 50000 50000 39994

16

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,JALAMPURA 50000 50000 50000 39994

17

SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY

SCHOOL,BHARKUNDA 50000 46632 0 0

Total 850000 837037 450000 374952

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Annexure 1.3.2 Statement Showing School Wise Excursion Grant: Kheda

Sr.No. School Name Grant

Received

Expense Accured

Grant Saving

1 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,GOLAJ 6400 6400 0

2 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,LILVA 5800 5800 0

3 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,MADADRA 7000 7000 0

4 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,MANGALPUR 4200 0 4200

5 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,NANVAGHA 7800 0 7800

6 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,JAKHEDA 5600 0 5600

7 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,PORDAFAGVEL 5400 0 5400

8 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,APRUJI 6600 0 6600

9 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,ROHISA 4400 0 4400

10 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,ANDHARI AMLI 5400 0 5400

11 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,BHUMAS 2800 0 2800

12 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,BOR 5600 5600 0

13 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,BAVRA 5600 5600 0

14 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,CHAPRA 8200 0 8200

15 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,GUTAL 5400 0 5400

16 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,JALAMPURA 4800 4800 0

17 SMDC GOVT.SECONDARY SCHOOL,Bharkunda 10400 10400 0

Total 101200 45600 55600 Source: District Education Office (DEO): Kheda

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Annexure 1.4 Selected photographs of RMSA Schools : Kheda District

Students Sitting on Benches: RMSA Secondary School, Madadara

Boys & Girls Sitting on Benches in Different Rows: Old Government School, Bavara

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Students are sitting on Benches: Old Government School, Barkunda

Blackboard Centrally Located: Old Government School, Bor

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Blackboard Centrally Located: RMSA Secondary School, Gutal

Ramp Facility: RMSA Secondary School, Madadara

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Ramp attached to Toilet : Old Government School, Barkunda

Ramp with Hand-Rail: RMSA Secondary School, Lilva.

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Ramp: Old Government School, Bor

Damaged Drinking Water Tank: Old Government School, Bavara

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Damaged Drinking Water Facility: RMSA Secondary School, Mangalpur

Drinking Water: Old Government School, Porda Fagvel.

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Damage Drinking Water Tank: RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa

R.O Water: RMSA Secondary School, Rohisa

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Damaged and Locked Toilets: Old Government School, Bavara

Toilet Facility: RMSA Secondary School, Lilva

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Urinal without Roof: Old Government School, Bavara.

Fireextinguisher: RMSA Secondary School, Lilva

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Learning through Group Activities: RMSA Secondary School, Chapra

CWSN Student: Old Government School, Bor

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CWSN Students Sitting On Last Benches: Old Government School, Bor

Deaf and Dumb Students (2 Brothers) : Old Government School, Bor

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CWSN Student: RMSA Secondary School, Chapra

CWSN Kit : Old Government School, Bor

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CWSN Students: Old Government School, Bor

Garbage Area: Old Government School, Nanavaga

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Chapter 2

District Level Half Yearly Monitoring Report for District-II: Anand


At School Level



school level planning, monitoring and evaluation at the school level, taking corrective / remedial

actions on all the components of the scheme i.e. infrastructural, academic and others at the school

level. The SMDC has a direct role in monitoring the annual school grant, minor repair grant and

strengthening of existing secondary schools.


In 11 schools, out of 12 schools under RMSA, the SMDC members are not found to be very clear

about their role.

3. Whether School Management and Development Committee (SMDC) general body meeting

is held quarterly? If not, are the proceedings mentioned by the school.

The SMDC meeting is held quarterly in 5 schools, monthly in 3 schools and half yearly in 3 schools.

In one of the school no meeting of the SMDC is reported by the MI. In all the schools the

proceedings record of these meetings is maintained.

4. Whether SMDC recommendations have been incorporated in the school development plan

or not.

As told to the MI in 7 schools the SMDC recommendations have been incorporated in the school

development plan (SDP).

5. Whether there is any separate planning & strategy developed for disadvantaged groups. If

not, why?


groups. However, the disadvantaged groups get certain benefits as per GoG norm. For instance each

SC and ST child (both IXth & Xth class) avails scholarship amount of Rs.2250 per year (Rs. 1850

last year), an OBC student of class IX receives Rs.400 per year and student of class X receives

Rs.625/- (Rs 400/- scholarship+ Rs 225/- as Exam fee) per year. Each CWSN with certificate

enrolled in secondary school receives scholarship amount of Rs 1500/- per annum. Most of such

children have their own bank account in individual names opened by the State RMSA office. The

scholarship amount is directly credited from the Department of Social Welfare to their bank account.

There is a provision of bicycles distribution under ‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ to all the girls

belonging to the disadvantaged groups i.e. SC, ST and OBC. In Anand district bicycles are found to

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be distributed to 181 girls in 11 schools out of 12 visited schools.


Water & Sanitation, SC welfare, Tribal development, Minority, Rural / Urban development,

Health department, etc. Please mention the areas of convergence. Are there any problem areas

of restructuring on convergence and coordination?

The school plan has adopted a convergence approach with some departments like Water &

Sanitation, Social Welfare Department, Tribal development department and Health Department.

Social Welfare Department manages the scholarship to the deserving children as per the details

mentioned above.

The areas of convergence include providing certain benefits to the target group. For instance the

tribal girls are provided bicycles through Tribal development department; health check-up is carried

out annually in the secondary schools through PHCs of Health department. There is provision of

water supply through the Water & Sanitation department by supplying Municipality water in urban

areas.

Problem areas of restructuring on convergence and coordination: It was found by the MI that

the district officers are not issued any clear guidelines regarding the areas of convergence. At school

level it was noticed that some interventions take place through convergence approach as mentioned

above. The state should issue clear guidelines & provisions to the district, block & school level

regarding the details of provisions & target beneficiaries.


Perspective plan for the school has been developed in all old government schools. None of the new

RMSA secondary schools have their own school building and they are functioning in government

upper primary schools.


other than SEMIS.

All the schools have adopted U-DISE data base for Planning and Plan preparation at school level.

At State Level



The State level planning team is involved in the preparation and finalization of district level plans. It

is under process for the 2013-14. The chapter formats from the district are to be collected.

2. Whether the State plan has adopted a convergence approach with other departments like



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The schools under RMSA receive help in form of scholarship and some provisions from

departments like Social Welfare Department and Tribal welfare Department. Health department

conduct checkup of the students every year through the local PHCs. The scholarship is directly

channelized through the Department of Social Welfare to the District and then to the school level.

Under ‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ there is provision of bicycles distribution to the girls belonging to

the SC, ST and OBC groups. MI has noticed that the main problem areas of restructuring on

convergence and coordination are due to the communication gap. The teachers, the DEOs and the

RMSA coordinators are not fully aware of the convergence with other departments.

3. Is there regular monitoring on planning & implementation of the programme at the state

level. If not, why?

There is regular monitoring on planning & implementation of the programme at the state level. The

state level functionaries visit the district and monitor the activities under RMSA. A monitoring

format is prepared by the State RMSA office and its report is under process.

4. Are there any separate strategies for the naxalite / extremist affected districts prepared at

the state/ district level in consultation with the district authority? If not why?

Anand is not a naxalite / extremist affected district, so no separate strategy has been prepared at the

state/ district level.

At District Level







The schools under RMSA in Anand district get help from some departments like Social Welfare

Department and Tribal welfare Department who provides scholarship to the students. Health

department conduct checkup of all the students every year free of cost.

3. How is the Perspective Plan and Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWP&B) regularly

monitored?

The Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWP&B) is prepared by the State. The DEO send their

requirement to the State Project Office (SPO)

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2. ACCESS

I. Physical Access:

1. Is location of the school adjacent to or within any of the following sensitive areas? If yes, in

which area.

Protected Area (National Park, Wildlife Sanctuary)/Flood Prone / Flood Plain Area/Earth Quake

Prone Zone/Unstable Slope / Landslide Prone Area / Erosion Prone Area/Cyclone Prone

Area/Storm Surge Prone Area/Drought Prone Area/Polluting Industrial Area/Mining


Highway/Congested Urban/Market/Commercial Area/Any particular disturbance faced by

school due to its location.

RMSA Secondary School Padra and RMSA Secondary School, Lunej are found to be located in flood

prone area. Whereas the old Government School, Vadgam is located in cyclone prone area. The RMSA

Secondary School, Bhatpura, is located near a busy highway. In all these schools the physical access to

school poses challenges for the children. However, no particular disturbance is faced by these schools

in normal days.



Four schools have CWSN. Seven schools are found with high gender gap. The SC/ST/Minority as

major habitants is reported in 1 school. Eight schools are found with incidences of drop out children.

None of the school is found with seasonal migration, forest/mountain, desert area school and schools

with urban deprived students.


Swami Vivekanand Vidhyalay, Pragati Vidhyalay and Laksami UPS are some of the feeder Upper

Primary Schools (UPS).



In RMSA Secondary School, Valandpura, four children are found to be coming from distance of more

than 5 km. This has been attributed to non-availability of any schools closer to their residence.



Natural barrier in 3 schools and man-made barrier in 1 school poses problem for the children in

accessing the school. However, no particular disturbance is faced by children in these schools in normal

days.

6. Name and distance of the nearest secondary school from the habitation the school is located at,

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and catchment area of the school.

The nearest Upper Primary school to the RMSA Secondary School Lunej is Jinej Secondary school

which is located at a distance of 22 kms. The nearest RMSA school for the RMSA Secondary School,

Valandpura is located at a distance of about 15 km.



No special arrangement like transportation facility or residential facility has been made available for the

benefit of students in the district.

II. Social Access:

1. Is the share of SC, ST, Minority and Girl children in enrollment proportionate to their share in

population of the habitation/neighborhood catered to?

The share of SC, ST, minority and girl children in enrollment is proportionate to their share in







like SC/ST/Minorities/girls/CWSN? If yes, whether it ensures the convergence of the provisions of

RMSA.

There is not any specific scheme in the State for ensuring enrollment of special category students like

SC/ST/Minorities/girls/CWSN However, the special category students get certain benefits as per GoG

norm. For instance each SC and ST child (both IXth & Xth class) avails scholarship amount of Rs.2250

per year (Rs. 1850 last year), An OBC student of class IX receives Rs.400 per year and student of class


secondary education gets scholarship amount of Rs 1500/- per annum. Most of the children under

RMSA in Anand district have a bank account in which the scholarship amount is directly credited from

the Department of Social Welfare. There is a provision of bicycles distribution under ‘Saraswati Sadhna

Yojana’ to all the girls belonging to the disadvantaged groups i.e. SC, ST and OBC. In Anand district

bicycles are found to be distributed to the girls in most of the schools. All the provisions ensure the

convergence of the provisions of RMSA and there was no evidence of replications.

4. Whether any overt or covert, manifest or subtle, discrimination against children of any social

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group or community by the teachers or peers is observed? If yes, what efforts have been made to

minimize it?

No overt or covert, manifest or subtle, discrimination against children of any social group or

community by the teachers or peers is observed by the MI.

5. Do the overall conditions prevalent in school facilitate access of CWSN to secondary schools? If

not, what are the obstructions and barriers?

The overall conditions prevalent in school facilitate access of CWSN to secondary schools, mostly for

admission and enrolment. However, in many schools with CWSN the ramp is found to be inadequate.

Ramps are not prevalent in independent structure; accessed by the students.

6. Are there any facilities / special provisions made available for disabled children in the school?

If yes, please give details thereof.

There is no Resource teacher visit in any of the visited school in the district.


1.Whether the state open school is established at the state level.

The open school (Gujarat State Open School- GSOS) is established at the state level. However, it is not

directly linked with the students enrolled under RMSA. The state Open school conducts examination

for class Xth and XIIth.


The state Open school has total 416 study centers all over Gujarat. It has 12 study centres in Anand

district. But the district level RMSA functionaries are not involved in this activity. The major

responsibility is to conduct the examination for the applicants in each centre.

3. Comments on

a) Admission & Re-admission procedure in state open school

b) Examination & Assessment pattern

c) Student support services

a). For registration in state open school, the agency BISAG (Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space

Application and Geo-Econometrics) advertise it over TV & in local daily newspapers. Any person who

has passed VIIth class and attained 15 years of age can take admission.

b). The examination are conducted at the study centres which is a government school only. The GSOS

does not have any separate Examination & Assessment pattern. However, the certificate is issues by the

state board.

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c).At present there is no provision for academic support services for the enrolled students under Gujarat

State Open School (GSOS).However, some teachers help the students informally, if they seek their

help.

4. Comments on advocacy programmed for out of school children for bringing them back to the

school.

There is no such provision from the district RMSA office for out of school children and bringing them

back to the school. However, based on the interaction at the school level, the MI could find that the HM

of some of the schools and some SMDC members take initiative to convince the parents for bringing

the children back to the school.



The state has not conducted any household survey or used any other method to identify the number of

out of school children in the state. The household survey to identify the number of out of school



As conveyed by the HM to the MI, any children who is absent for a prolonged duration (more than 2

months) without any intimation to the school authorities is considered an out of the school children.


1. The number, gender and category-wise (SC/ ST/ Minorities/ CWSN) profiling of Out of School

Children (OoSC)/ Drop-Out Children in the age group of 14-16 Yrs.

Six children (3 boys and 3 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari, one boy from RMSA

Secondary School, Valandpur, Five children (2 boys and 3 girls) from RMSA Secondary School,

Milarampur, six children (2 boys and 4 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Padara, three children (1

boy and 2 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Jafarganj, four girls from RMSA Secondary School,

Ambali, thirteen children (9 boys and 4 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Lunej and one girl from

RMSA Secondary School, Hathipura, were found to be the drop out children.

2. Whether efforts have been made by School Management to bring them back to school and if so

the result there of during the past one year.

Some of the schools’ HMs have contacted parents and counselled them to bring these children back to

the school. As per the school record the drop out children has taken admission in another school

however, no record of the same was found at the school level.

3. Are children of seasonal migrant families held back in the school through seasonal hostels or to

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there any other intervention?

There is not found to be any instances of children of seasonal migrant families held back in the school

through seasonal hostels or by any other intervention.

4. If no such arrangement made, whether migration / transfer certificate is issued to such

children by the school?

It was told to the MI by the HM that there were not any children of seasonal migrant families, therefore

no certificate was issued.


covering following points: - Not applicable




No special training intervention has been started for the OoSC by any of the visited schools.

3. EQUITY




Out of 41 enrolled SC children, 26 children were found to be present on visit day. Out of 109 enrolled

children of Minority category, 86 children were found to be present on visit day. There were 13 CWSN

children and 09 children were present on the visit day. There is no major variation in attendance and

achievement of the children from SC/ ST and Minority category.


Six children (3 boys and 3 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari, one boy from RMSA

Secondary School, Valandpur, Five children (2 boys and 3 girls) from RMSA Secondary School,

Milarampur, six children (2 boys and 4 girls) from RMSA Secondary School Padara, three children (1

boy and 2 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Jafarganj, four girls from RMSA Secondary School,

Ambali, thirteen children (9 boys and 4 girls) from RMSA Secondary School, Lunej and one girl from

RMSA Secondary School, Hathipura, were round to be the dropout children. In all 39 children were

found to be dropout students from 8 visited schools under RMSA.


Poor socio-economic background, household responsibilities of children and child marriage are found

to be some of the reasons for the drop outs. Parents of most of the children are working as daily wage

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labourers. Many such parents take their children with them wherever they get work.



Enrolment, Attendance, Achievement

Table 2.1: Gender gaps in Enrollment, Attendance & Learning Achievement: Anand

Note: Information for Learning achievement is based on the result of the last school examination

Higher gender gap in enrollment is found in 7 schools. However, some gender gap in enrollment is

found in 10 schools. In 7 Schools the girls have performed better as compared to the boys. Girls secured

more than 70 percent marks in 4 Schools (Old Government School, Vadgam, Old Government School

Bhavanipura, RMSA Secondary School, Valandpura, RMSA Secondary School, Jafarganj). Out of 408

girls, 194 girls have secured more than 60 per cent marks in all the visited schools. Out of 676 boys,

277 boys have secured more than 60 per cent marks in all the visited schools.



Gender gap in enrolment was found to be due to Socio-cultural issues and Economic reasons. In some

Name of School Enrolment in

2013-14

Enrolment in

2012-13

Learning

Achievement>60

%

S.No

.

B G Tot B G Tot

al

B G Tot

1. Old Government School, Vadgam 97 34 131 86 27 113 56 28 84

2. Old Government School,

Bhavanipura

53 44 97 39 36 75 33 36 69

3. RMSA Secondary School,

Bhatpura

71 41 112 55 41 96 14 12 26

4. RMSA Secondary School, Lunej 50 23 73 66 25 91 17 8 25

5. RMSA Secondary School, Mitali 58 24 82 59 30 89 17 04 21


Valandpura

35 35 70 23 22 45 24 26 50


Mahiari

53 32 85 63 46 109 23 19 42


Milrampura

68 54 122 62 43 105 41 22 63


Jafarganj

23 19 42 22 35 57 10 14 24


Ambali

88 51 139 57 53 110 21 12 33


Hathipura

66 35 101 48 26 74 10 5 15

12. RMSA Secondary School, Padra 14 16 30 18 17 35 11 8 19

Total 676 408 1084 598 401 999 277 194 471

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families the girls take care of the household work while their mothers move out for daily wage. The

cultural issues have an impact on early marriage in some instances.


a. Health (own or family members),b. Social cultural issues, c. Sibling Care, d. Household

responsibilities, e. Family issues function/Gone to relatives house, f. Earning for livelihood

g. Migration, h. Any other.

The gender gap in attendance was reported to be due to socio-cultural reasons, child labour, household

responsibilities of girls at home, including younger sibling care, unavailability of basic facilities at the

school and the unavailability of female teachers & Math and science teachers in the school.


There is no specific intervention through financial support to address the gender gap-in the context of

both attitudinal and physical in RMSA. In some schools the teachers meet the parents and counsel them

to send their daughters to school. The in-service teachers’ training also includes some components,

addressing the gender gap. However the efforts are not sufficient to address the gender gap in

connection to attitudinal change and bridging the barrier for physical/infrastructural issues in the visited

district.

3. Is there any reduction in enrollment, attendance, learning achievement, if yes, what are

the reasons?

In 7 schools the enrolment in 2013-14 has improved as compared to the enrolment in last academic year

(2012-13). However in 5 schools the enrolment has declined in current academic session as compared

to the previous academic session. Total enrolment in 2012-13 in Anand district is 999 students and

during 2013-14 it has reached to 1084 students (For details Pl. see Table 2.1). There is not found to be a

major variation / reduction in attendance and learning achievement in all the visited schools.


In some schools the teachers and the members of SMDC make an attempt to convince and counsel the

parents to educate their daughters. The MI did not observe any noticeable efforts by the school

authority with regard to removing the physical barriers.

5. Have any efforts been made for the counseling of parents to handle the problems of girls? If

not, Why?

In some schools the teachers have made some efforts for the counseling of parents & convince them to

send their daughters to attend the school regularly. This effort has helped bridging the gender gaps in

enrollment and attendance to some extent.

6. Whether the aspects like separate hostel and other physical facilities and availability of

security have impact on enrolment and attendance and learning achievement of girls?

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There is no separate hostel or availability of security facility in any of RMSA schools. However, there

are KGBVs under SSA which have enrolled most of the out of school / drop out children that has an

impact on enrolment, attendance and learning achievement of girls. However such provisions are not

ensured to the students under RMSA.


1. Whether the Guidance and Counseling Cell has been constituted by the school? If yes, what is

the available Student-Counselor Ratio?

There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school level in any of the school under

RMSA. However, the children reported many problems to the MI including poor or lack of toilet

facility, absence of subject teachers especially Mathematics and Science teachers.


There is no guidance and counseling cell however, counselor is found to visit the students occasionally.

No record is found to be maintained for the counselor visit at school level.


sought?

Counseling is required for the children due to the problems related to absence of subject teachers

especially mathematics and science teachers, gender bias among some of the parents, drop out and

absenteeism due to indulgence in child labour during specific season. But the counseling is not taking

place due to unavailability of counseling cells.

5. QUALITY



All the classrooms are properly lighted and well ventilated.


Both the available classrooms have adequate desk/chair in many schools. However, the numbers of

desks were found to be insufficient by the MI for children in five schools (RMSA Secondary School,

Valandpura, RMSA Secondary School, Milarampur, RMSA Secondary School, Ambali, Old

Government School, Bhavanipura and RMSA Secondary School, Lunej).


The blackboard in all the visited RMSA schools is found to be centrally located.


There is no ICT devices used for teaching purpose in the classroom in most of the visited schools

except 2 schools (Old Government School Vadgam and RMSA Secondary School, Mitli). This is due to

the absence of computer facility in such schools.

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There is no library for the students in most of the new RMSA schools. In most of the old Government

School library facility is found to be available. The age appropriate books are found in some of these

schools. In these schools the children have a library period once in a week.

b. Integrated Science and Math Laboratory and availability of Science and Math kit other

materials required,


RMSA school except Old Government School Vadgam.


There is no Art/ Craft room in any of the visited school including both old and new schools under

RMSA.

6. The number of days the school functioned during the last academic year? Give reasons for the

closure, if any of the school remains closed for long gaps during last year. Suggestions to avoid

repetition of such instances.

The number of working days during the last academic year ranged between 237-250 days. None of the

school remained closed for a longer period. However, Old Government School, Vadgam remained

closed for 3 days on account of continuous rain.

7. Number of teachers present in the school (Male & Female), vacancies against sanctioned post.

Table-7.1: Number of teachers present & Vacancies

Teachers

Number of teachers

appointed in the

school.

Number of

teachers

present in the

school

Sanctioned

Post

Vacancies against

Sanctioned Post

Male 21 20 36 08

Female 7 6

Total 28 26 36 08

There is no female teacher in nine visited schools. The number of teachers in all the visited schools

ranged between 1-3 in all the schools. Most of the teachers were found to present in RMSA schools on

visit day. There are 36 sanctioned teachers’ posts in all the schools, out of which 28 teachers are

appointed. Most of the teachers working in the existing RMSA schools are appointed in some other

schools (parent institution) but now they have been deputed to RMSA Secondary Schools due to

scarcity of teachers in RMSA school & surplus teachers in the parent school. Most of the teaching

posts under RMSA are lying vacant.

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head of the institution to complete that course curriculum?

In case of teacher vacancy the existing teachers complete the course curriculum.

9. Are sufficient teachers available for each class and for teaching Science, Mathematics

and languages?

Teacher for each class is found to be available in 7 schools which includes RMSA Secondary School,

Ambali; Old Government School, Bhavanipura; Old Government School, Vadgam; RMSA Secondary

School, Lunej; RMSA Secondary School, Hathipura; RMSA Secondary School, Milarampur and

RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura. There is no science and mathematics teacher in most of the

RMSA schools except 2 schools i.e. RMSA Secondary School, Hathipura and RMSA Secondary

School, Mitli. However, language teacher was found to be available in all the RMSA schools visited by

the MI.


untrained teachers.



11. Whether the practice of truancy, i.e. absenteeism/class bunking by students/teachers has been

reported in the school? If so, the reasons thereof and the steps taken by the school management to

curb the practice

The practice of truancy i.e. class bunking by students/teachers has not been reported in any of the

visited school. However practice of absenteeism was reported by the teachers due to students’

involvement in labour activities during specific season.

12. Policy of teacher recruitment, deployment, training, remuneration and career advancements.

Policy of teacher recruitment, deployment, training, and remuneration and career advancements has

been followed as per the state norms. At the moment the RMSA teachers are deputed from the parents’

school where they had been earlier recruited. The Old government schools have their own teachers to

teach the secondary school students. They are also recruited as per the state government norm. The

DEO has no role in teacher’s recruitment. The State conducts TAT (Teachers Aptitude Test)

examination and select the teacher as per merit.


1. Is the teacher's diary including curriculum delivery and lesson plan etc. maintained by teacher

& countersigned by the Head of the institution regularly?

The teacher’s diary which include curriculum delivery and lesson plan is found to be maintained by the

teacher in many schools except four schools (RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari, RMSA Secondary

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School Milrampura, RMSA Secondary School Jafaraganj and RMSA Secondary School Padra). It was

found to be countersigned by the Principal though not on regular basis.


The prescribed time table is found to be available and followed by the teachers.



Discussions and group work is found to be encouraged among children in some of the visited schools

4. Give your comments on the classroom management with reference to:

a. Whether children are made to sit in small groups. Groups are formed of children from the

same class or with children from different classes,

Children are made to sit in small groups and the groups are formed of children from the same class.

b. Do children from disadvantaged groups and children with disabilities sit separately or on the

back benches?

In none of the visited school the children from disadvantaged groups or CWSN sit separately or on the

back benches except Old Government School, Bhavanipura.

c. Do children have any role in the management of classroom?

The children are found to play few role in the management of classroom including classroom cleaning,

organizing prayer assembly in morning and managing class in absence of the teacher in few instances

etc.



Onsite academic support to the teachers is found to be given in one school only (i.e. RMSA Secondary

School Padra).

6. Is remedial teaching including zero classes, extra classes etc. arranged for academically weaker

students? If yes, the frequency thereof and the positive results, if any, obtained by such teaching.

Extra classes for academically weaker students found to be organized weekly in two schools (RMSA

Secondary School Padra and RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura) and daily in other 2 schools (Old

Government School Vadgam and RMSA Secondary School Lunej).


All schools are found to be following marking followed by grading as the method for evaluation.


Thirteen Children ( 8 Boys and 5 Girls) With Special Needs are found in four schools namely, RMSA

Secondary School Milrampura (1boy+1girl), RMSA Secondary School Padra (1 boy+2 girls), Old

Government School Bhavanipura (1 girl) , and RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura (6 boys & 1 girl).

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Five children belonged to OH category while, 4 are MR and 4 belonged to multiple disability category.

Out of 13 CWSN, nine children were found to be present on the visit day. All CWSN students are

found to be participative in their respective classes. There are no noticeable efforts made to optimize it

and there is no visit of Resource Teachers in any of the RMSA schools with CWSN.


Peer interaction with CWSN is found to be either friendly or neutral in all the visited schools.


No school has been found to prepare Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for the CWSN.



availed by other children in the school.


None of the school is found to be using ICT devices for teaching & learning of CWSN.


1. What are the provisions for in-service training of teachers? Frequency & duration thereof. Has

the state prepared targeted annual plan for in-service teachers training to improve quality and

skills?



conducted from 15th-19th January, 2013 & the 2nd phase was from 21-25th January, 2013. Training

was given to 30 teachers on May, 2013 in the Anand district. The teachers were provided lodging and

boarding facility during the training as well as TA as per the norm. The state is in the process of

preparing targeted annual plan for in-service teachers training to improve quality and skills for the

coming academic year.


The training (Karmyogi Talim) was held in May, 2013 at D.N. High school However, in none of the

school the teachers’ training included the component to handle the CWSN.

3. Whether training provided has improved the confidence level of the teacher to handle


Confidence level of teachers who have received the IED training was found to be more in comparison

to the untrained teachers to handle CWSN.

4. Quality and adequacy of facilities available (space, projection, tools, equipment's) for training.

Training facilities like space, projection, tools and equipment are provided during in-service teachers

training in the training premise.

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The teachers have communicated to the MI that the training modules are found to be need based,

however there is scope for further improvement. Additional components like computer education,

training for CWSN can also be included in the training module.



The teachers are not using new technologies like Computer Aided Learning (CAL), LCD projector etc.

for imparting lessons in the classroom due to lack of these facilities in most of the visited schools.

However few teachers have learnt the skill through their own initiatives.

7. Are the trainers from the secondary schools/higher institutions or other academic institutions?

Training is found to be given by the Key Resource Persons (KRPs). KRPs can be College teachers/

Principals, high school teachers with good training and communication skill. In addition any retired or

experienced person from education Department can be called for teachers training and the training of

RPs.


Teachers training should have more practical orientation with some components that can cater to the

need of disadvantaged groups.

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6. CIVIL WORKS



The year of establishment for all the schools in Anand district is 2011.


The construction for all the new RMSA secondary school’s building is yet to begin.

3. Number of Class rooms for class IX for class X

In all new RMSA schools the class rooms are adjusted with the existing Govt. UPS where schools under

RMSA & SSA are managed together. Two classrooms each for IX and X standard are available for some

of the visited schools.

4. Area of School

All the new RMSA schools do not have their own building and they are functioning in the existing Govt.

UPS. Therefore the record for the area of school is not available for these schools. The Old Govt. Schools

are operating in single structure or double storied building. The total area in these schools range from

4000-5000 square feet. In most of the Old Govt. Schools the playground area is found to be insufficient.

II. Design


All schools are found with pucca building except RMSA Secondary School Mahiari, Old Government

School Bhavanipura and RMSA Secondary School Ambali.


Physical condition of the schools was found to be normal except RMSA Secondary School Valandpura

where cracks were visible in the school building



4. Whether natural light & cross ventilation is available or not, if not, the reasons thereof,

and the steps taken by school authorities to rectify it.

Natural lights and cross ventilation found in many schools, except RMSA Secondary School Lunej,

RMSA Secondary School Hathipura, RMSA Secondary School Mitli.

5. Is there any lighting facility in the class room? Is it functional, if not -why?

Is the power supply continuous or intermittent? If intermittent, what is the duration for which

electricity is available in the school?

All schools were found with electricity facility except RMSA Secondary School Lunej, RMSA Secondary

School Hathipura, RMSA Secondary School Mitli.. Among all the schools with electricity facility, only

one school (RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura) has non-working electricity. In some of the schools the

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electricity supply was found to be interrupted for about 1 to 2 hours.

6. Is there provision of alternative electric power supply like generator, invertors, gobar-

gas plant, solar panels, wind electricity etc. if so, give details thereof and comment on the -

condition of their usability?

None of the schools has been found to with an alternative power supply.

7. Library Design-

a) Is sufficient seating space, light, ventilation available? b) Regular pest control is carried

out or not.

Most of the schools do not have library facility for students. Howeverm 2 schools are found with library

facility. The libraries in these schools are found with proper lighting, some ventilation and inadequate

seating space. Pest control is carried out occasionally if there is any problem identified.

8. Laboratory Design- Please comment on-:

a. Adequate space for all subjects (Physics, Chemistry, Biology & other subject) , b.

Proper height (3ft) of the laboratory table, c. Cross ventilation and exhaust fan. d. Availability of

running water.

Most of the Old Govt Schools under RMSA are found to have Laboratory however; it is a common

laboratory for Physics, Chemistry, Biology & other subject. The space is found to be inadequate for all

the subjects in these schools. Cross ventilation is found to be present however, the provision of exhaust

fan is found to be missing in all the schools with laboratory. There is not found to be any provision of

running water in all the schools with laboratory. None of the new RMSA school is found to be having

any laboratory.

9. Facilities for Physically Challenged :


school, drinking water facilities, toilets facilities, science lab, mathematic lab, libraries, auditorium,

and playground available?

The ramp is found to be available at entrance, near drinking water facility, toilet facility, playground and

laboratory in Old Government School, Vadgam with handrail and adequate slope. The ramp is found to be

available at entrance, drinking water facility and toilet facility in RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura

without handrail. In 2 schools (RMSA Secondary School Milrampura & Old Government School

Bhavanipura) with CWSN, the ramp was not found to be constructed.


The benches of different height are not found to be available in the class room in any of the visited school

with CWSN.

c. Please comment if the slope of the ramp is adequate and whether ramps have been provided with

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the hand rails.

The ramp is found to be available with handrail and adequate slope in few schools. MI did not find any

uniform construction of the ramps with regard to length and width. The ramp design was different from

each other in many schools.


a. Source of drinking water (Supply Water/ Tube Well/ Dug Well/Other). Is sufficient water

available across all the seasons?

All schools have drinking water facility except 3 schools (RMSA Secondary School Lunej, RMSA

Secondary School Hathipura and RMSA Secondary School Mitli). Five schools have water supply

through water department and rest of the schools have tube well as a source of water.

b.Type of water storage facility and its condition & cleaning schedule,

All schools are found to store drinking water in tank. Condition of the water tank is found to be good in 6

schools (RMSA Secondary School Lunej, RMSA Secondary School Hathipura, RMSA Secondary School

Bhatpura, RMSA Secondary School Mitli, RMSA Secondary School Gafaraganj, RMSA Secondary

School Mahiari). Rests of the schools have average condition with regard to cleanliness and maintenance.

Most of the schools have reported to get the water tank cleaned twice in a year.

c. Is quality of drinking water satisfactory? Write measures taken by school -authorities

to ensure clean drinking water and treatment & testing of water.

All schools are found with safe drinking water except 5 schools (RMSA Secondary School, Lunej; RMSA

Secondary School, Hathipura; RMSA Secondary School, Mitli; RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari and

Old Government School, Bhavanipura). Cleanliness in drinking water is found to be ensured in eight

schools by putting chlorine tablets in water tank and using R.O plant etc. Five schools are found with RO

plant to get safe drinking water namely RMSA Secondary School, Gafaraganj; RMSA Secondary

School, Milrampur; RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura; RMSA Secondary School, Padra and Old

Government School, Vadgam. Testing of water through the help of professionals to ensure the quality was

found to be missing in all the visited schools.


Sufficient drinking water tap are found to be unavailable in nine schools.




Nine schools have been found with toilet facility. However, 3 schools (RMSA Secondary School

,Mahiari; Old Government School, Bhavanipura; RMSA Secondary School, Mitali) did not have toilet

facility. In most of the schools, the toilet and urinal facility is found to be insufficient to cater to the need

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of the children enrolled in the schools. Teachers’ toilets are found in most of the schools. Running water

in toilets is found to be available in 4 schools (RMSA Secondary School Milarampura, RMSA Secondary

School Padara, old Government School Vadagam and RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura). The

insufficiencies of the urinal / lavatories create inconvenience for girls, boys, teachers and other staff

members in the schools.

b. Please comment on the Maintenance/ cleanliness of toilets and supply of water,

Toilets are cleaned and maintained daily in four schools (RMSA Secondary School Milarampura, RMSA

Secondary School Padara, old Government School Vadagam and RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura).

c. Is there any separate toilet for girls? Is the location of the girl's toilet safer? Please comment on

the availability of the Sanitary napkins & dustbins in the school,

Among schools with toilet facility, 1 school (RMSA Secondary School Hathipura) did not have separate

toilets for boys and girls. Location of girls’ toilet is found to be safe in all the schools except in RMSA

Secondary School Milarampura, RMSA Secondary School Padara and RMSA Secondary School Ambali).

Sanitary napkins were not found to be available in any of the visited schools Dustbins are available in

four schools (RMSA Secondary School Milarampura, RMSA Secondary School Padara, Old Government

School Vadgam and RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura).


There is no provision for toilets for physically challenged students in any of the visited schools. They use

the same toilet used by other students.

e. Are lavatories single pit/ double pit attached with septic tank? Is the septic tank cleaned

regularly?

The lavatories in four schools are found to have single pit (RMSA Secondary School Valandpur, RMSA

Secondary School Padara, Old Government School Vadgam). In rest of the schools lavatories are found to

have double pit attached with septic tank. All the schools with toilet facility were found to have attached

septic tank. The septic tanks are cleaned in the schools as per the requirement.

12. Drainage System

a. Whether drainage facility is available in the school. If yes, Type of drains (Underground/ Pucca

& Covered/Pucca & Open/ Kutcha & Open)

Six schools are found with drainage facility. One school (RMSA Secondary School, Padara) is found to

have underground drainage while 2 schools (RMSA Secondary School, Valandpur and RMSA Secondary

School, Anklav) have Pucca and covered drainage. Two schools (Old Government School, Bhavanipura

and Old Government School, Vadgam) have Pacca and open drainage and one school (RMSA Secondary

School, Bhatpura) has Kutcha and open drainage system.

b. Please comment on the structural condition and regular cleaning of drains in the school. Is there

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any instance of water logging?

Out of Six schools with drainage system, condition of drains is found to be good in two schools (RMSA

Secondary School, Padara and Old Government School, Vadgam). Rest of the schools have normal

condition of drainage. Drains are cleaned on monthly basis in RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura.

However, the Old Government School, Vadgam get the drains cleaned on fortnight basis. Old

Government School, Bhavanipura has instances of water logging in monsoon season.




Waste water treatment /discharge/disposal/ found in three schools.( Old Government School

Bhavanipura, Old Government School Vadagam, RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura ) Adequate bins

are available for collection in five schools.(RMSA Secondary School Milarampur, RMSA Secondary

School Padara Old Government School Bhavanipura, Old Government School Vadgam and RMSA

Secondary School Bhatpura).

b. Is there any waste collection facility available in the school? Please comment on the

adequacy and condition of bins?

Three schools have waste collection facility in the school (RMSA Secondary School Milarampura, RMSA

Secondary School Padara and Old Government School Vadgam). The numbers of bins were found to be

inadequate and the condition of waste collection bins was found to be average.

c.Is there any facility for treatment of waste and composting of organic waste?

None of the school is found to have facility for treatment and composing of organic waste.





None of the RMSA schools is found to have rain water harvesting facility available in school. Hence

water conservation measures was found to be ignored in most of the schools.




Lighting facilities is found to be different in all the school. Most of the schools have been found to be

using ordinary tube lights. Some of the teachers in three schools (RMSA Secondary School Mahiari,

RMSA Secondary School Valandpura and RMSA Secondary School Padara) are found to be aware about

renewable source of energy.

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a. Is the physical condition of the building good? Is there any special structural facility to

cope with natural hazard (flood/ cyclone/ earthquake)

Physical condition of building is found to be good in two schools, namely RMSA Secondary School

Padara and Old Government School Vadgam. However, the physical condition of building is found to be

poor in RMSA Secondary School Valandpura and RMSA Secondary School Ambali. Any special

structural facility to cope with natural hazard was not found in any of the visited schools except the

provision of fire extinguishers.

b. Whether the width of the stair case is sufficient or not & alternative exit gates are available

for emergency evacuation in the case of double storied structure.


alternative exit gates are not available for emergency evacuation in the case of double storied

structure.

c. Is the disaster preparedness plan & emergency evacuation plan available in the school? Whether

all students & teachers are aware of it & trained to handle the disaster situations,


schools. In most of the schools the students are not found to be aware of it & they have not been taught in

the classes about this subject. None of the teachers have received any training to handle the disaster

situations in the visited schools. Hence their awareness is found to be limited.

d. Whether fire extinguishers (s) are available in the labs, kitchen etc. in the school and are in

working condition? Whether the school authorities including students are trained in using

the fire extinguishers in case of eventuality,

Fire extinguishers are available in 4 school and all are in working condition. ( RMSA Secondary School

Padara, RMSA Secondary School Gafarganj, Old Government School Vadgam, RMSA Secondary School

Hathipura). In 3 school authorities are trained in using the fire extinguishers in case of eventuality.

e. Whether contact numbers for Ambulance, Fire Brigade and nearby Hospital is

available and displayed in school.

In 5 schools contact number of ambulance and 4 schools has contact number of fire brigade and nearby

hospital is available.


All the schools have been allocated the land for the construction of their own school building. However,

the construction of the building is yet to begin.


a. Construction activity undergoing in school does not hamper academic activities in school?

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b. Does not vitiate air, water & land quality in school & noise level is within permissible limit,



The above mentioned 4 points are not applicable as the construction is yet to begin in all the new RMSA

school.

2. Procurement Aspects: Not Applicable


b. What is stage of construction? Whether construction work done is in line with the lay out plan?



e. Whether












The above mentioned points are not applicable as the construction is yet to begin in all the new RMSA

school.




The SMDC is found to exist in all schools except RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari. The SMDC

members are not found to be familiar with their roles and responsibilities as notified by the state

Government except RMSA Secondary School Mahiari.


In most of the schools the SMDC members are found to be familiar with the SEMIS data captures format

and school report card. Only 4 schools (RMSA Secondary School Mahiari, RMSA Secondary School

Milarampura, RMSA Secondary School Valandpura and RMSA Secondary School Mahiari) are found to

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have no familiarity with the SEMIS data captures format and school report card.

c. The guidelines regarding School Development Plan and training received by them in this

regard.

The SMDC members are not found to be familiar with the guidelines regarding School Development Plan

(SDP) in any of the new RMSA schools. However, in 3 schools some of the SMDC members who have

received the training are found to be familiar with guidelines regarding School Development Plan.

2. Frequency of SMDCs meetings held & issues discussed thereof. Average attendance of the

SMDC Members.

The SMDC in all the visited schools includes 152 male and 44 female members in this district. The

SMDC meeting is held quarterly in 5 schools, monthly in 3 schools, half yearly in 3 schools. There has

not been reported any meeting of the SMDC members in RMSA Secondary School Hathipura so far for

this year.

3. What are the roles of SMDCs members in monitoring of teachers and students attendance?

The SMDC in 7 schools are found to be monitoring student’s attendance though not regularly. The

teachers’ attendance is rarely monitored in all the visited schools. However, no record for the same is

found in the schools.


In three schools (RMSA Secondary School Ambali, RMSA Secondary School Hathipura and Old

Government School, Vadgam) the SMDC members are found to participate in preparation of AWP&B.

However, their participation was found to be limited due to inadequate training.

5. Whether members of the SMDC have received any training? If so, how many members?

Some of the members of SMDC have received two days training in few schools during March, 2013.

6. When these trainings were held? Who conducted the trainings? What is the SMDCs members’

perception of the trainings?

These training are held once a year. The district office conducts these training. The SMDC members

perceive these training as useful for developing school development plan.



The U-DISE record is ready and has been approved.


The Data Capture Formats (DCF) was distributed to all the schools on 1st September, 2013.

3. What kind of training on filling up of DCF was provided to the teacher/head teacher?

Teachers and the HM in two schools (Old Government School Vadgam and RMSA Secondary School

Hathipura) have received training on filling up the DCF in 2013.

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The Data Capture Format (DCF) for the current academic year is not found to be available in six schools.

Reasons mentioned by them for not having the format are that the DCF forms are maintained by the

district office. This record is submitted to the MIS, SSA Office for the data entry and processing.

5. Do the schools have a copy of the filled-in Data Capture Formats (DCF) for record and

reference?

Six schools are found to have a copy of the filled in DCF for current year 2013-14.


School report card generated and distributed to four schools (RMSA Secondary School Gafargunj,

RMSA Secondary School Padara, Old Government School Vadgam and RMSA Secondary School Lunej).



The Sample checks are ongoing and managed by the SSA Office after receiving filled-in Data Capture

format (DCFs) from schools. The findings are yet to be received by the RMSA district office.





Therefore the District office has no information with regard to the data analysis and its dissemination.

10. Are the school authorities aware of the importance of the data collected under MIS and are they

using this data?




Most of the visited schools use this data for planning and budgeting.


Backup of data supplied under SEMIS is properly maintained by five schools namely, RMSA Secondary

School Jafargunj, Old Government School Vadgam, RMSA Secondary School Hathipura, RMSA

Secondary School Mitali and RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura.


1. Nature of financial records and registers maintained specially cash book - is it maintained on

daily basis and is the bank reconciliation carried out on monthly basis?

Financial register such as Cashbook is not found to be available, maintained and updated by four schools

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(RMSA Secondary School Mahiari, RMSA Secondary School Milarampur, RMSA Secondary School

Valandpura and Old Government School Bhavanipura). Asset registers are found to be available and

updated in four schools (RMSA Secondary School Valandpura, Old Government School Bhavanipra,

RMSA Secondary School, Hathipua and RMSA Secondary School Bhatpura).


E-transfer and cheque are found as the common mode of transfer of funds to SMDC from state/ district


All the 11 schools have received the School annual grant and Excursion trip grant. The SMDC training

grant & minor repairing grant is received in 1 school and Climate awareness grant for all the schools have

been received.

4. System for the drawl and payment of fund from the SMDC account (Cash/ Cheque).

The process of withdrawal of funds and payment of funds from SMDC account is found to be done

through cheque and e-transfer. The HM and one of the members of the SMDC were found to be the

common drawing and disbursing authority in all the Old Government schools. However, in all new

RMSA secondary schools the funds are managed by the DEO/Office.


community. If yes, is there any instance of community expressing objection/reservation about

any transaction?

In 2 Schools the SMDC is found to share the proposals for expenditure and expenditure statements in

2013-14 with community. There is no instance of community expressing objection/reservation about any

transaction in these schools. The proposal for expenditure and expenditure statements are not applicable to

all the new RMSA schools (10 schools) as the fund is managed by District Education Office under

RMSA.


community.

SMDC not covered by the audit in four schools( RMSA Secondary School Mahiari, RMSA Secondary

School Milarampura ,RMSA Secondary School Jafargunj and Old Government School Bhavanipura.

However, in none of the visited school the audit observations were found to be shared with the

community.

7. Is social audit being done (Display of financial information- receipts and payments, on the notice

board/ wall of the school).

None of the schools were found to display about financial Information-receipts and payments. on notice

boards/School wall.


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None of the schools were found with instances of community mobilized resources/donations for schools

in 2013-14.

9. Status of Utilization Certificates submitted by SDMC: period for which it has been submitted to

District Project Office.

In two schools the SMDC have submitted the Utilization Certificate to the DEO. The UC for the said

grant has not been submitted in any of the new RMSA schools as the fund is managed by District

Education Office under RMSA.

10. Comment on the process of settlement of advance and collection of Utilization Certificate by

SPO and DPO

The SMDC accounts in all the new RMSA schools are managed by District Education Office (DEO)

under RMSA. The Utilization Certificate of all the RMSA schools is prepared and submitted to the DEO

for settlement of advance.

11. A Financial statement for the SDMC/ DPO/ SPO may be provided as on date in the format given

below:

Data

Name

of the

Unit:

A Opening

Balance as on

1st April of the

year

B Funds

received

C=A+B Total Fund

available till that

date

D Expendit

ure

E=C-D Closing balance

as on

SMDC 40462

770600 811069 654100

156969 (24% of the

total expenditure )

DPO* 40462

770600 811069 654100

156969 (24% of the

total expenditure )

SPO Annexure D for

details

Note:i. Grant at SMDC level includes all the grants received at the school level

ii. The quarter wise financial status of RMSA at SPO level as on 30.09.2013 is attached as

Annexure-D

*: The District Office has released the above mentioned grants (School Annual Grant and other grants) to

all the schools in the District



Eleven schools are found to receive RMSA Annual grant during March-April’ 13. The Old Government

School, Bhavanipura has not received the school annual grant.



All schools received Rs.50,000 as the RMSA Annual Grant. All the schools have utilized the amount as

per their requirements as per norms (24% of the total).


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One school (Old Government School, Vadgam) has received Minor repair grant in the month of March,

2013.



The school has utilized the Minor Repair Grant as per the norms of the scheme.


The funds were utilized for repair of the school building.

12. INNOVATIONS








3. Monitoring institutions should review the progress of all innovative activities taken

up in a district or has been completed with respect to innovative activities funded from the

innovation component under RMSA.

a. What are the main reasons and why the objectives have not been met in case so?

Funds have not been sanctioned for the said purpose and DEO has not been able to meet the objectives b.

Whether effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms have been put in place?


funds.




The MI has not identified any successful element that can be scaled up under RMSA as no innovative

activity has taken place in the district.


I. Staffing pattern

1. The total number of staff sanctioned category wise in the State/ District office under RMSA

and the number in position and action taken to fill up the vacancies?

At state level 15 posts are in position. Out of these 15 post, 12 post are filled and 03 post -1 MIS project

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1. What are the monitoring tools/ mechanism (reports, visits etc.) used at school and district level

to ensure effective implementation of the scheme. Please give details along with time schedules.

The district coordinator (DC) is expected to visit 2 schools per week. The visit of the DEO is occasional

& as per the need. Monitoring format (Surprise Visit Form) has been developed at the State level for

district visit. The surprise visit from covers various components like basic information of the school,

teachers information, physical facilities, education related activities, ICT School project, review of

different Educational Committees, Classrooms, result of last 5 years and analysis of different work done

using different school grants.

coordinator; 1 civil work project coordinator and 1 Account assistant are lying vacant. However, these 3

positions have been advertised in the local daily newspaper.

Data



In Position 12 02

Vacant 03 00


Out of 12 filled in post, only one post is on deputation basis and rest of other are on contractual basis.

Both the posts at district level are contractual.




Seven project coordinator post, one each for Tender & Procurement, Planning & Training, Finance, MIS,

Yoga, Civil & Monitoring & evaluation are sanctioned. However, Project Coordinator post for Civil &

MIS are vacant. There is no post sanctioned for the components - Gender and Equity at the State level

(Pls. see Annexure- E).


made.

One office assistant and one stenographer are appointed at state level.



The officials and staff at state level are clear to some extent about the objectives, targets and goals of the

programmed and their role in the management structure. However, they need more orientation regarding

the same.

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State Council of Education Research & Training (SCERT)) etc. however, they take their expertise

in preparation of teachers’ training module. They also help in training the master trainers or the Key

Resource Persons (KRPs). The state level training for the KRPs is imparted at IL & FS Education and

Technology Services Limited.


Recruitment of the permanent teaching staff as well as science and maths teachers at school level is

required in all the RMSA schools. The construction of the own building of RMSA schools should begin

to have smooth functioning at school level.

IV. State Database


their annual/perspective plan for access. Please also specify mechanism other than GIS mapping

adopted by the State.


2. Whether the database mechanism (MIS) at District level is in place or not? If not what are the

sources of data used for plan preparation at District level?

The database mechanism SEMIS has been replaced as UDISE and it is in place.


With the help of UDISE, the block level data has been prepared. However, the district level data will be

ready by end of January, 2014.

V. Research



No Research Project has been undertaken during the current financial year at the district level.





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No action research has been conducted by the teachers/external agencies for finding out solutions to

users pertaining to pedagogy/quality.

14. ANY OTHER ISSUES RELEVANT TO RMSA IMPLEMENTATION: Anand

Problems:

Infrastructure: None of the new RMSA secondary School have their own building.

They are functioning in Government Upper primary Schools (UPS). Therefore both

the schools (Old Govt. Schools as well as New schools under RMSA) face problem

accommodating entire students, teacher etc. Lack of own school building is found to

be the major problems faced by the school students and the teachers. All the 10 new

RMSA schools in Anand district face many problems like absence of basic facility

(toilet facility, drinking water facility), lack of subject specific teachers, library and

Science laboratory. Their Annual grant is handled by the DEO office which further

limit the SMDC authority to utilize the grants as per their requirement.

CWSN: No medical checkup for CWSN from any of the RMSA school has been

organized in the district. Some deserving CWSN children have not been issued the

certificate.

Other Problems: Absenteeism, Child labour and child marriage are observed. Wheat,

paddy and pulses are cultivated in the village during November-December. Each child

gets an amount of of Rs 100-150 as wage labour per day for the same. Therefore

parents, who themselves are daily wage earners prefers to send their children for

farming instead of sending them to school.

Strengths:

RMSA Secondary School, Valandpura has participated in Science Fair & Quiz.

RMSA Secondary School, Jafarganj organizes Yoga Classes for students.

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Annexure 2.1 List of School under RMSA: Anand District

Old Government School : 2 RMSA Secondary School : 10 ; Total : 12

S. No. Name of School DISE Code Cluster Block Standard

1 Old Government School, Vadgam 24150405102 Vadgam Khambhat 9 to 12th

2 Old Government School, Bhavanipura 24150500903 Bhavanipura Petlad 9 to 10th

3 RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura 24150800903 Bhatpura Tarapur 9 to 10th

4 RMSA Secondary School, Lunej 24150402502 Lunej Khambhat 9 to 10th

5 RMSA Secondary School, Mitali 24150402902 Mitali Khambhat 9 to 10th

6 RMSA Secondary School, Valandpura 24150703602 Valandpura Tarapur 9 to 10th

7 RMSA Secondary School,Mahiari 24150702202 Mahiari Tarapur 9 to 10th

8 RMSA Secondary School, Milrampura 24150702302 Milrampura Tarapur 9 to 10th

9 RMSA Secondary School, Jafarganj 24150701402 Jafarganj Tarapur 9 to 10th

10 RMSA Secondary School, Ambali 24150200105 Ambali Anklav 9 to 10th

11 RMSA Secondary School, Hathipura 24150201603 Hathipura Anklav 9 to 10th

12 RMSA Secondary School, Padra 24150702903 Padra Tarapur 1 to 10th

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Annexure 2.2 Copy of Office Order, Notification, etc. : Anand District

2.2.1: CWSN Certificate: (Received from RMSA Secondary School, Mitli)

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2.2.2: Filled-in DISE Form: (Received from Old Government School, Bhavanipura)

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Annexure 2.3 Selected photographs of RMSA Schools : Anand District:

Centrally Located Blackboard: RMSA Secondary School, Valandpura

Centrally Located Blackboard: RMSA Secondary School, Padra

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Students with Uniform & Benches : Old Government School,Vadgam

Boys & Girls in different Rows: RMSA Secondary School, Valandpura

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Students Sitting on the Floor: RMSA Secondary School, Milrampura

Drinking Water Facility with RO: RMSA Secondary School, Padra

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Drinking Water Facility: RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura

Drinking Water Facility: Old Government School, Vadgam

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Non Functioning Drinking Water Facility: RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari

Water Tank Kept on Roof: Old Government School, Vadgam

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Science Models: RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura

Computer Lab: RMSA Secondary School, Jafarganj

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Principal and Teacher in a Damaged Room: RMSA Secondary School, Milrampura

Principal Office with Fire Extinguisher: RMSA Secondary School, Jafaraganj

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Fire extinguisher: RMSA Secondary School, Hathipura

Ramp: RMSA Secondary School, Hathipura

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School Building with Ramp: RMSA Secondary School, Bhatpura

Non-Functional Toilets: RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari

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Washbasin with Clean Toilet Facility: Old Government School, Vadgam

Urinal Without Roof: RMSA Secondary School, Ambali

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Toilet: RMSA Secondary School, Lunej

Students are Working In front of the Classroom: RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari

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Unsafe Electric Connection Fixed with Iron Rod: RMSA Secondary School, Mahiari

Damaged Classroom: RMSA Secondary School, Milarampura

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Damaged Roof: RMSA Secondary School, Milrampura

CWSN Girl without Medical Checkup: RMSA Secondary School, Milrampura

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Chapter 3

District Level Half Yearly Monitoring Report for District-III: Patan


At School Level



school level planning, monitoring and evaluation at the school level, taking corrective / remedial

actions on all the components / interventions of the scheme- infrastructural, academic and others at

the school level. School Management Development Committee (SMDC) have a direct role in

monitoring the annual school grant, major and minor repair and strengthening of existing secondary

schools.


The SMDC members are found to be clear about their role in 11 schools out of 14 RMSA schools and

they are taking steps accordingly.

3. Whether School Management and Development Committee (SMDC) general body

Meeting is held quarterly? If not, are the proceedings mentioned by the school.

The School Management and Development Committee (SMDC) general body meeting is held

quarterly in 3 schools. However, in 6 schools the meeting is held every month and in 5 schools the

meeting is held occasionally. In all schools the proceedings record is maintained.

4. Whether SMDC recommendations have been incorporated in the school development plan or

not.

As told to the MI in 10 schools the SMDC recommendations have been incorporated in the school

development plan .

5. Whether there is any separate planning & strategy developed for disadvantaged Groups. If

not, why?


groups. However, the disadvantaged groups get certain benefits as per GoG norm. For instance each

SC and ST child (both IXth & Xth class) avails scholarship amount of Rs.2250 per year (Rs. 1850 last

year), An OBC student of class IX receives Rs.400 per year and student of class X receives Rs.625/-

(Rs 400/- scholarship+ Rs 225/- as Exam fee) per year. Each CWSN enrolled in secondary education

gets scholarship amount of Rs 1500/- per annum. There is a provision of bicycles distribution under

‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ to all the girls belonging to the disadvantaged groups i.e. SC, ST and

OBC. However, in Patan district bicycles are found to be distributed to the girls in few schools.


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Water & Sanitation, SC welfare, Tribal development, Minority, Rural/ Urban development,



The school plan has adopted a convergence approach with some departments like Water & Sanitation,

Social Welfare Department, Tribal development department and Health Department. Social Welfare

Department manages the scholarship to the deserving children as per the details mentioned above.

The areas of convergence include providing certain benefits to the target group. For instance the

tribal girls are provided bicycles through Tribal development department; health check-up is carried

out annually in the secondary schools through PHCs of Health department. There is provision of

water supply through the Water & Sanitation department by supplying Municipality water in urban

areas.

Problem areas of restructuring on convergence and coordination: It was found by the MI that the

district officers are not issued any clear guidelines regarding the areas of convergence. At school level

it was noticed that some interventions take place through convergence approach as mentioned above.

The state should issue clear guidelines & provisions to the district, block & school level regarding the

details of provisions & target beneficiaries.


Perspective plan for the school has been developed in all Old government schools. None of the new

schools under RMSA have their own school building and they are functioning in government upper

primary schools


other than SEMIS.

None of the schools have adopted any other data base for Planning and Plan preparation at school

level other than SEMIS.

At District Level







The schools under RMSA in Patan district get help from some departments like Social Welfare

department and Tribal welfare Department as they provides scholarship to the students. Health

department conduct checkup of all the students every year free of cost.

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3. How is the Perspective Plan and Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWP&B) regularly

monitored?

The Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWP&B) is prepared by the State. The DEO send their

requirement to the state (SPO office)

At State Level



The State level planning team is involved in the preparation and finalization of district level plans. It

is under process for the 2013-14.

2. Whether the State plan has adopted a convergence approach with other departments like




The schools under RMSA receive help in form of scholarship and some provisions from some

departments like Social Welfare department and Tribal welfare Department. Health department

conduct checkup of the students every year through the local PHC. The scholarship is directly

channelized through the Department of Social Welfare to the District and then to the school level.

There is provision of bicycles distribution under ‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ to the girls belonging to

the disadvantaged groups i.e. SC, ST and OBC. MI has noticed that the main problem areas of

restructuring on convergence and coordination are due to the communication gap. The teachers, the

DEOs and the RMSA coordinators are not fully aware of the convergence with other departments.

3. Is there regular monitoring on planning & implementation of the programme at the state

level. If not, why?

There is regular monitoring on planning & implementation of the programme at the state level. The

state level functionaries visit the district and monitor the activities under RMSA. A monitoring format

is prepared by the State RMSA office and its report is under process.

4. Are there any separate strategies for the naxalite / extremist affected districts prepared at the

state/ district level in consultation with the district authority? If not why?

Patan is not a naxalite / extremist affected district, so no separate strategy has been prepared at the

state/ district level.

2. ACCESS

I. Physical Access:

1. Is location of the school adjacent to or within any of the following sensitive areas? If yes, in

which area.

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Protected Area (National Park, Wildlife Sanctuary)/Flood Prone / Flood Plain Area/Earth

Quake Prone Zone/Unstable Slope / Landslide Prone Area / Erosion Prone Area/Cyclone

Prone Area/Storm Surge Prone Area/Drought Prone Area/Polluting Industrial Area/Mining


Highway/Congested Urban/Market/Commercial Area/Any particular disturbance faced by

school due to its location.

In 7 visited schools there is natural barrier (flood prone, cyclone prone or drought prone) and in 2

schools there is man-made barrier (busy highway) barrier which poses challenges for the children in

accessing these schools.Four schools (Old Government School Garamdipatiya, Old Government

School Vaghpara, Old Government School Bamroli, and Old Government School Piprala,) are

found to be located in earthquake prone area and two schools (Old Government School Gadsai and

RMSA Secondary School Javantri) are found to be located in flood/cyclone prone area. One school

(RMSA Secondary School Alhabad) is found to be located in drought prone area. The Old

Government School Patan is located in congested area and Old Government School, Golivada is

located in near highway.



There are 03 schools sanctioned with the civil work. Five schools have CWSN. Six schools are

found with high gender gap. The SC/ST/Minority as major habitants is reported in 03 school. Nine

schools are found with incidences of drop out children. None of the school is found with seasonal

migration, forest/mountain and desert area school. One school is found with urban deprived students.

Seven schools are covered from disaster affected areas.


The feeder upper primary schools for Old Government School Gadsai is Vaghpara Secondary School

which is located at a distance of 60 kms..



Two schools (RMSA Secondary School, Gangalsan and Old Government School, Patan,) are found

where 10 and 25 children are coming from distance of more than 5km. due to non-availability of

good school or girl’s school in their habitation.



None of the schools were found with particular disturbance due to location

6. Name and distance of the nearest secondary school from the habitation the school is located

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at, and catchment area of the school.

The nearest Upper Primary School to the Old Government School Garamadipatiya and Old

Government School, Gadsai is Vaghpura Secondary school which is located at a distance of 60 kms.

For rest of the schools the nearest Upper Primary School is within the distance of 4-10 kms.



No special arrangement like transportation facility or residential facility has been made for The

students in any of the RMSA schools.

II. Social Access:

1. Is the share of SC, ST, Minority and Girl children in enrollment proportionate to their share

in population of the habitation/neighborhood catered to?

The share of SC, ST, and minority and girl children in enrollment is proportionate to their share in







like SC/ST/Minorities/girls/CWSN? If yes, whether it ensures the convergence of the

provisions of RMSA.

There are some schemes for the special category students like SC/ST/Minorities/girls/CWSN by

some departments. However, the special category students get certain benefits as per GoG norm. For

instance each SC and ST child (both IXth & Xth class) avails scholarship amount of Rs.2250 per

year (Rs. 1850 last year), An OBC student of class IX receives Rs.400 per year and student of class


secondary education gets scholarship amount of Rs 1500/- per annum. There is a provision of

bicycles distribution under ‘Saraswati Sadhna Yojana’ to all the girls belonging to the disadvantaged

groups i.e. SC, ST and OBC. However, in Patan district the bicycles are found to be distributed to

the girls in few schools. All the provisions ensure the convergence of the provisions of RMSA and

there was no evidence of replications.

4. Whether any overt or covert, manifest or subtle, discrimination against children of any

social group or community by the teachers or peers is observed? If yes, what efforts have been

made to minimize it?

In none of the visited RMSA schools, any discrimination was observed among children of different

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social groups, different economic groups, different castes, CWSN, different religious communities

and different gender by the MI.

5. Do the overall conditions prevalent in school facilitate access of CWSN to secondary

schools? If not, what are the obstructions and barriers?

The overall conditions prevalent in school facilitate access of CWSN to secondary schools, mostly

for admission and enrolment. However, in many schools with CWSN the ramp is found to be

inadequate. Ramps are not prevalent in independent structure; accessed by the students.

6. Are there any facilities / special provisions made available for disabled children in the

school? If yes, please give details thereof.

Some facilities like ramp with a handrail at entrance or at drinking water is found in some of the

schools with CWSN. There is no Resource teacher visit in any of the visited school in the district.


1. Whether the state open school is established at the state level.

The open school (Gujarat State Open School- GSOS) is established at the state level. However, it is

not directly linked with the RMSA. The state Open school conducts examination for class Xth and

XIIth.


The state Open school has total 416 study centers all over Gujarat. It has 11 study centers in Patan

district.

3. Comments on

a) Admission & Re-admission procedure in state open school b) Examination &

Assessment pattern c) Student support services

For registration in state open school, the agency BISAG (Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space

Application and Geo-Econometrics) advertise it over TV in local daily newspapers. Any person who

has passed VIIth class and 15 years of age or any literate person who has not passed VIIth class and

he/she is 17 years old can take admission. The examinations are conducted at the study centers

which are a government school only. The GSOS does not have any separate Examination &

Assessment pattern. However, the certificate is issues by the state board. At present there are no

academic support services for the enrolled students in GSOS.

4. Comments on advocacy programmed for out of school children for bringing them back to

the school.

There is no such provision from the district RMSA office for out of school children and bringing

them back to the school. However, based on the interaction at the school level, the MI could find that

the HM of some of the schools and some SMDC members take initiative to convince the parents for

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bringing the children back to the school.



The state has not conducted any household survey or used any other method to identify the number

of out of school children in the state. The household survey to identify the number of out of school



As told to the MI by the HM, any children who is absent for a prolonged duration continuously

(more than 2 months) without any intimation to the school authorities is considered an out of the

school children.


1. The number, gender and category-wise (SC/ ST/ Minorities/ CWSN) profiling of Out of

School Children (OoSC)/ Drop-Out Children in the age group of 14-16 Yrs.

Twenty eight children (19 boys & 9 girls) from Old Government School, Golivada, 13 children (9

boys and 4 girls) from Old Government School, Gadsai, 6 children (4 boys and 2 girls) from Old

Government School, Piparala, 5 children (2 boys and 3 girls) from the Old Government School,

Vaghpara, 7 girls from Old Government School , Patan and in 4 schools one child each, were found

to be the drop out children. In all, 64 children are found to be dropped out from 09 schools under

RMSA.

2. Whether efforts have been made by School Management to bring them back to school and if

so the result there of during the past one year.

Schools contacted parents and counselled them to bring these children back to the school.

3. Are children of seasonal migrant families held back in the school through seasonal hostels or

to there any other intervention?

There is not found to be any instances of children of seasonal migrant families held back in the

school through seasonal hostels or by any other intervention.

4. If no such arrangement made, whether migration / transfer certificate is issued to such

children by the school?

It was told to the MI by the HM that there were not any children of seasonal migrant families,

therefore no certificate was issued.


covering following points: - Not applicable



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No special training intervention has been started for the OoSC by any of the visited schools. Hence

the above mentioned points are not applicable

3. EQUITY




Out of 172 enrolled SC children, 142 children were found to be present on visit day. Out of 80

enrolled children of Minority category, 69 children were found to be present on visit day. There were

06 CWSN children and 04 were present on the visit day. There is no major variation in attendance

and achievement of the children from SC/ ST and Minority category.


Twenty eight children (19 boys & 9 girls) from Old Government School, Golivada, 13 children (9

boys and 4 girls) from Old Government School, Gadsai, 6 children (4 boys and 2 girls) from Old

Government School, Piparala, 5 children (2 boys and 3 girls) from the Old Government School,

Vaghpara, 7 girls from Old Government School , Patan and in 4 schools one child each, were found

to be the drop out children. In all, 64 children are found to be dropped out from 09 schools under

RMSA.


Child marriage and poor socio-economic background are found to be the main reason for the drop

outs. The parents of most of the children are working as daily wage laborers. They prefer to take

their children with them wherever they get work.



ENROLMENT, ATTENDANCE, ACHIEVEMENT

Gender gaps in Enrollment and Attendance in district Patan.

Table 3.1: Gender gaps in Enrollment, Attendance & Learning Achievement: Patan

S.No.

Name of School

Enrolment in

2013-14

Enrolment in 2012-

13

Learning

Achievement(>

60%

B G Tot B G Tot B G Tot

1. Old Government School, Bamroli 52 10 62 38 9 47 17 4 21

2. Old Government School, Patan 313 313 292 292 110 110

3. Old Government School, Golivada 67 22 89 67 22 89 25 26 51

4. Old Government School, Vaghpura 32 19 51 33 13 46 11 4 15

5. Old Government School,

Gramdipatiya

18 13 31 21 13 24 2 2 4

6. Old Government School, Gadsai 42 38 80 38 28 66 10 10

7. Old Government School, Mudana 35 31 66 31 29 60 27 23 50

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8. Old Government School, Babara 42 10 52 29 5 34 17 2 19

9. Old Government School, Piparala 37 39 76 55 21 76 05 10 15

10. RMSA Secondary School, Bhatsan 51 24 75 52 30 82 23 20 43

11. RMSA Secondary School, Motanayata 120 52 172 66 35 101 34 15 49

12. RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad 28 27 55 25 20 45 14 15 29

13. RMSA Secondary School, Javantri 25 27 52 29 18 47 9 15 24

14. RMSA Secondary School, Ganglasan 56 57 113 62 43 105 30 16 46

Total 605 682 1287 546 578 1114 117 191 308

Higher gender gap in enrolment is found in 6 schools. However, some gender gap in enrollment is

found in 12 schools. In 7 schools the girls have better Learning Achievement as compared to the boys.

Out of 682 girls, 191 girls have secured more than 60 per cent marks in all the visited schools. Out

of 605 boys, 117 boys have secured more than 60 per cent marks in all the visited schools.



Gender gap in enrolment was found due to Socio-cultural issues and Economic reasons. The girls

take care of the household work in some families while their mothers move out of the house for daily

wages. The cultural issues have an impact on early marriage in some instances.


a. Health (own or family members),b. Social cultural issues, c. Sibling Care, d. Household

responsibilities, e. Family issues function/Gone to relatives house, f. Earning for livelihood

g. Migration, h. Any other

The gender gap in attendance was reported to be due to various reasons like socio-cultural reasons,

child labor, household responsibilities of girls at home, including younger sibling care and

unavailability of Math and science teachers in the school.


No specific intervention through financial support has been made in RMSA to address the gender

gap-in the context of both attitudinal and physical in RMSA. In some schools the teachers meet the

parents and counsel them to send their daughters to school. The in-service teachers’ training also

includes some components, addressing the gender gap. However the efforts are not sufficient to

address the gender gap in connection to attitudinal change and bridging the barrier for

physical/infrastructural issues.

3. Is there any reduction in enrollment, attendance, learning achievement, if yes, what are

the reasons?

In 10 schools the enrolment in 2013-14 has improved as compared to the enrollment in the last

academic year (2012-13). However, in 4 schools the enrollmentt has declined in the current

academic session as compared to the previous academic session. Total enrolment in 2012-13 was

1114 students and it has reached to 1287 students during 2013-14 in Patan district (For details pl see

table 3.1). There is not found to be major variation or reduction in attendance and learning

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achievement.


The teachers and the members of SMDC in some schools make an attempt to convince and counsel

the parents to educate their daughters. The MI did not observe any noticeable efforts by the school

authority with regard to removing the physical barriers.

5. Have any efforts been made for the counseling of parents to handle the problems of girls?

If not, Why?

In some schools the teachers have made some efforts for the counseling of parents & convince them

to send their daughters to attend the school regularly. This effort has helped bridging the gender gaps

in enrollment and attendance to some extent.

6. Whether the aspects like separate hostel and other physical facilities and availability

of security have impact on enrolment and attendance and learning achievement of

girls?

There is no separate hostel or availability of security facility in any of RMSA schools. However,

there are KGBVs under SSA which have enrolled most of the out of school / drop out children that

has an impact on enrolment, attendance and learning achievement of girls. There are 5 KGBV in

Patan district. However, there are no such provision under RMSA.


1. Whether the Guidance and Counseling Cell has been constituted by the school? If yes, what

is the available Student-Counselor Ratio?

There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school level in any of the school under

RMSA. However, one counsellor for 3 districts has been appointed for guidance & counselling of

students. The counsellor is expected to visit 12 schools per month. For Patan , the counsellor is

appointed at the Mehsana district office and he visits Patan, Banaskantha and Mehsana. Therefore

visit of the counsellor was found to irregular in all the schools in Patan district.


There is no guidance and counseling cell however, counselor is found to visit the students

occasionally. No record is found to be maintained for the counselor’s visit at school level.


sought?

Counseling is required for the children for the problems related to absence of subject teachers

especially mathematics and science teachers, gender bias among some of the parents, drop out and

absenteeism due to indulgence in child labour during specific season. But the counseling is not

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taking place due to unavailability of counseling cells.

5. QUALITY



The MI has found that all the classrooms are properly lighted and well ventilated.


The number of desks was found to be insufficient for children in two schools (Old Government

School, Mudana and RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad). Remaining schools have adequate

desks/chairs for the students.


The blackboard in all the visited RMSA schools is centrally located except 2 schools.


There is no ICT devices used for teaching purpose in the classroom in many of the visited schools

due to the absence of computer facility in such schools. However, 6 schools (Old Government

School, Vaghpura; Old Government School, Babara; Old Government School, Patan; Old

Government School, Mudana; Old Government School, Piprala and RMSA Secondary School,

Alhabad) had some instances of use of ICT devices in classrooms.



There is no library for the students in any of the new RMSA schools. However, the library is found

to be available in some of the Old Govt. Schools. The age appropriate books are found in few

schools.

b. Integrated Science and Math Laboratory and availability of Science and Math kit

and other materials required,


RMSA school except Old Government School Patan.


There is no Art/ Craft room in any of the visited school including both Old and New Schools under

RMSA.

6. The number of days the school functioned during the last academic year? Give reasons for

the closure, if any of the school remains closed for long gaps during last year. Suggestions to

avoid repetition of such instances.

The number of working days during the last academic year ranged between 222-263 days. None of

the school remained closed for a longer period except RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad which

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remained closed for six days due to heavy rain.

7. Number of teachers present in the school (Male & Female), vacancies against sanctioned

post.

Table-7.1: Number of teachers present & Vacancies

Teachers

Number of teachers

appointed in the

school.

Number of

teachers

present in the

school

Sanctioned

Post

Vacancies against

Sanctioned Post

Male 31 30 42 03

Female 8 7

Total 39 37 42 03

There are no female teachers in three visited schools. Most of the teachers were found to be present

in the schools on visit day of the MI. There are 3 sanctioned teaching posts for each school. In all the

visited schools total 42 posts are found to be sanctioned. Out of which 39 teachers are appointed.

Most of the teachers working in the RMSA schools have been appointed in some other school

(father/parent institution) but now they have been deputed to RMSA Secondary Schools.


head of the institution to complete that course curriculum?

The School principal arranges specific subject teachers especially for science and mathematics from

other schools as per their availability to complete that course curriculum.

9. Are sufficient teachers available for each class and for teaching Science, Mathematics

and languages?

Teacher for each class is found to be available in 09 schools. There is no science and mathematics

teacher in many RMSA schools. However, 5 schools i.e. Old Government School, Golivada; Old

Government School, Gramdipatiya; Old Government School, Vaghapura; RMSA Secondary School,

Gangalsan; RMSA Secondary School, Mota Nayata have science or maths teacher. Language

teacher was not available in 05 schools namely (Old Government School, Golivada; Old

Government School, Vaghpuara; RMSA Secondary School, Javantri; RMSA Secondary School,

Ganglasan and Old Government School, Mudana).


untrained teachers.



11. Whether the practice of truancy, i.e. absenteeism/class bunking by students/teachers has

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been reported in the school? If so, the reasons thereof and the steps taken by the school

management to curb the practice.

The practice of truancy (class bunking by students/teachers) has not been reported in any of the

visited schools. However, absenteeism among students was reported due to their involvement in

labour activities during specific season.

12. Policy of teacher recruitment, deployment, training, remuneration and career

advancements.

Policy of teacher recruitment, deployment, training, remuneration and career advancements has been

followed as per the state norms. At the moment the RMSA teachers are deputed from the parents’

school where they had been earlier recruited. The Old government schools have their teachers to

teach the secondary school students. They are recruited as per the state government norm. The DEO

has no role in teacher’s recruitment.


1. Is the teacher's diary including curriculum delivery and lesson plan etc. maintained by

teacher & countersigned by the Head of the institution regularly?

The teacher’s diary which includes curriculum delivery and lesson plan is found to be maintained by

the teacher in many schools except three schools (Old Government School, Garamadipatiya; Old

Government School, Gadsai and Old Government School, Bamroli). It was found to be

countersigned by the Principal though not on regular basis.


The prescribed time table is found to be available and followed by the teachers in most of the visited

schools.



Discussions and group team works are found to be encouraged among children in some of the visited

schools.

4. Give your comments on the classroom management with reference to:

a. Whether children are made to sit in small groups. Groups are formed of children from the

same class or with children from different classes,

Children are made to sit in small groups in seven schools and the groups are formed of children from

the same and sometime different classes.

b. Do children from disadvantaged groups and children with disabilities sit separately or on

the back benches?

In none of the visited schools the children from disadvantaged groups or CWSN sit separately or on

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the back benches.

c. Do children have any role in the management of classroom?

The children are found to play few roles in the managing classroom including classroom cleaning,

organizing prayer assembly in morning and managing class in absence of the teacher in few

instances.



Onsite academic support to the teachers is found to be given in three schools namely Old

Government School, Golivada; Old Government School, Bamroli and Old Government School

Gramadipatiya.

6. Is remedial teaching including zero classes, extra classes etc. arranged for academically

weaker students? If yes, the frequency thereof and the positive results, if any, obtained by such

teaching.

Extra classes for academically weaker students are found to be organized in six schools out of 14

schools. These schools are Old Government School, Gramadipatiya; RMSA Secondary School,

Bhatsan; Old Government School, Golivada; RMSA Secondary School, Gangalsan; Old

Government School, Patan and Old Government School, Gadsai. Three schools on weekly basis, 1

school on monthly basis and 2 schools on daily basis are organizing extra classes for academically

weaker students. All six schools found better result in examination among students due to

participation in extra classes.


All schools are found to be following marking followed by grading as the method for evaluation. .


Six children (6 Boys ) with special needs (CWSN) are found in five schools namely, Old

Government School, Golivada; Old Government School, Gramadipatiya; RMSA Secondary School,

Bhatsan; RMSA Secondary School, Javantri and Old Government School, Bamroli. Out of 6 boys, 3

belonged to OH category, 2 are BL and 1 boy belonged to multiple disability category. All CWSN

students are found to be participative in class activities except RMSA Secondary School, Javantri.

There are no noticeable efforts made to optimize it and there is no visit of Resource Teachers in any

of the RMSA schools with CWSN.


Peer interaction with CWSN is found to be either friendly or neutral in all the visited schools.


None of the schools have prepared any Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for the CWSN.

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availed by other children in the school.


The ICT devices are not found to be used in any of the schools for teaching & learning of CWSN.


1. What are the provisions for in-service training of teachers? Frequency & duration thereof.

Has the state prepared targeted annual plan for in-service teachers training to improve quality

and skills?



conducted from 15th-19th January, 2013 & the 2nd phase was from 21-25th January, 2013. Training

was given to 30 teachers in October, 2013 in the Patan district. The teachers were provided lodging

and boarding facility during the training as well as TA as per the norm. The state is in the process of

preparing targeted annual plan for in-service teachers training to improve quality and skills for the

coming academic year.


Training for dealing with CWSN is given to some teachers of four visited schools, and most of them

found with some confidence level to handle CWSN.

3. Whether training provided has improved the confidence level of the teacher to handle


Confidence level of teachers who have received the IED training was found to be more in

comparison to the untrained teachers to handle CWSN.

4. Quality and adequacy of facilities available (space, projection, tools, equipment's) for

training.

Facilities like space, projection, tools and equipment are provided during in-service teachers training

in the training premise.


The training modules are found to be need based as told by the teachers to the MI. However, there is

scope for further improvement. Additional components like computer education, training for CWSN

can also be included in the training module.



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None of the teachers have received any training to use new technologies like Computer assisted

Learning (CAL), LCD projector etc. for imparting lessons in the classroom. However few teachers

have learnt the skill through their own initiatives like it was found among some teachers in Old

Government School, Mudana;, Old Government School, Patan and Old Government School,

Golivada.

7. Are the trainers from the secondary schools/higher institutions or other academic

institutions?

Training is found to be given by the Key Resource Persons (KRPs). The KRPs can be College

teachers/ Principals, high school teachers with good training and communication skill. In addition

any retired or experienced person from education Department can be called for teachers training and

the training of RPs.


Teachers training should have more practical orientation with some components that can cater to the

need of disadvantaged groups.

6. CIVIL WORKS


The land has been allotted for 2 schools. For 3 schools the land allotment is still pending All new

RMSA schools are working in the UPS campus.


The year of establishment for all the schools ranged from June 2010 to 2012. However, the new

RMSA schools are working in the Upper primary Schools.


Construction for the new RMSA secondary school’s building is yet to begin.

3. Number of Class rooms for class IX and class X

In all new RMSA schools the class rooms are adjusted with the existing Govt. UPS where schools

under RMSA & SSA are managed together. Two classrooms each for IX and X standard are

available for most of the visited schools.

4. Area of the School

All the new RMSA schools do not have their own building and they are functioning in the existing

Govt. UPS. Therefore the record for the area of school is not available for these schools. The Old

Govt. Schools are operating in single structure or double storied building. The total area in these

schools range from 4500-7500 square feet. In most of the Old Govt. Schools the playground area is

found to be inadequate.

II. Design

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All the 09 schools (Old Government schools) have pucca building. However the 05 new RMSA

school are working in the Govt. Upper Primary School building and all these also have pucca

building.


Physical condition of the schools was found to be normal in all schools except RMSA Secondary

School, Bhatsan; Old Government School, Vaghapura; Old Government School, Babara and Old

Government School, Bamroli where cracks were visible in the school buildings.



4. Whether natural light & cross ventilation is available or not, if not, the reasons

thereof, and the steps taken by school authorities to rectify it.

Natural lights, cross ventilation and electricity facility is found in many schools except 5 schools

(RMSA Secondary School Bhatsans, Old Government School, Vaghapura; Old Government School

, Babara; Old Government School, Gadasai and Old Government School, Piparala).

5. Is there any lighting facility in the class room? Is it functional, if not -why?

Is the power supply continuous or intermittent? If intermittent, what is the duration for which

electricity is available in the school?

It is found that in all the schools electric supply was non-functioning on visit day. Availability of

power supply is found to be continuous in all the schools except RMSA Secondary School, Bhatsan;

Old Government School, Vaghapura; Old Government School, Babara; Old Government School,

Gadsai and Old Government School, Piparala.

6. Is there provision of alternative electric power supply like generator, invertors, gobar-gas

plant, solar panels, wind electricity etc. if so, give details thereof and comment on the -

condition of their usability?

None of the school has alternative power supply facility like generator, invertors, gobar-gas plant,

solar panels, wind electricity etc.

7. Library Design-

a) Is sufficient seating space, light, ventilation available?; b) Regular pest control is

carried out or not.

Many of the RMSA schools do not have library facility for its students except Old Government

School, Mudana and Old Government School, Patan. Both the schools with the library are found

with proper lighting but inadequate ventilation and inadequate seating space. Pest control is carried

out occasionally if there is any problem identified.

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8. Laboratory Design- Please comment on:

a. Adequate space for all subjects (Physics, Chemistry, Biology & other subject)

b. Proper height (3ft) of the laboratory table, c. Cross ventilation and exhaust fan. d.

Availability of running water.

Most of the Old Govt. Schools under RMSA are found to have Laboratory however; it is a common

laboratory for Physics, Chemistry, Biology & other subject. The space is found to be inadequate for

all the subjects in these schools. Cross ventilation is found to be present in some of the schools with

laboratory. However, the provision of exhaust fan is found to be missing in all the schools with

laboratory. There is not found to be any provision of running water in all the schools with laboratory.

None of the new RMSA school is found to be have any laboratory.

9. Facilities for Physically Challenged :


school, drinking water facilities, toilets facilities, science lab, mathematic lab, libraries,

auditorium, and playground available?

Ramps for physically challenged students is not found in any of the five schools with CWSN

except RMSA Secondary School, Javantri, where ramps are found to be available at the entrance,

drinking water and toilet facilities.


The benches of different height are not found to be available in the classroom in any of the visited

schools with CWSN.

c. Please comment if the slope of the ramp is adequate and whether ramps have been provided

with the hand rails.

One school has ramp with adequate slope. In none of the schools the ramps have been provided with

the handrails. MI did not find any uniform construction of the ramps with regard to length and width.

The ramp design was different from each other in many schools.


a. Source of drinking water (Supply Water/ Tube Well/ Dug Well/Other). Is sufficient

water available across all the seasons?

Eleven schools have drinking water facility. Six schools have supply water through pipeline, and 5

schools have tube well as a source of water.

b. Type of water storage facility and its condition & cleaning schedule,

All schools are found to store drinking water in tank. The condition of water tank is found to be good

in 5 schools (RMSA Secondary School, Bhatasan; RMSA Secondary School, Vaghapura; RMSA

Secondary School, Babra; RMSA Secondary School, Javantri and RMSA Secondary School,

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Ganglasan). While 3 schools (RMSA Secondary School, Mota Nayta; RMSA Secondary School,

Gadsai and Old Government School, Bamroli) are found with poor condition with regard to

cleanliness and maintenance. Six schools get the water tank cleaned monthly while remaining

schools get it cleaned twice in a year.

c. Is quality of drinking water satisfactory? Write measures taken by school

authorities to ensure clean drinking water and treatment & testing of water.

All schools are found with safe drinking water except 4 schools RMSA Secondary School,

Vaghapura; Old Government School, Babra; Old Government School, Gadsai and RMSA Secondary

School, Javantri due to high salt contents. Cleanliness of drinking water is used to be ensured by

putting chlorine tablets in water tank and using R.O plant in some schools. Five schools (RMSA

Secondary School, Javantri; RMSA Secondary School, Ganglasan; RMSA Secondary School,

Alhabad; Old Government School, Mudana and RMSA Secondary School ,Piprala) have RO plant.

In RMSA Secondary School Javantri the water is having high fluoride content and need to be treated

before drinking. The school authorities arrange the water from corporates on payment. Testing of

water through the help of professionals to ensure the quality was not found in any of the visited

schools.


In 6 schools the number of taps is found to be insufficient to cater to the need of the number of

enrolled children.




Eleven schools are found to have toilet facility. However, 3 schools (Old Government School,

Vaghapura; Old Government School, Babra and Old Government School, Bamroli) do not have

toilet facility. Among schools with toilet facility. In most of the schools, the toilet and urinal facility

is found to be insufficient to cater to the need of the children enrolled in the schools. Teachers’

toilets are found in seven School. The insufficiencies of the urinal / lavatories create inconvenience

for girls, boys, teachers and other staff members in the school.

b. Please comment on the Maintenance/ cleanliness of toilets and supply of water,

Running water in toilets is found in five schools (RMSA Secondary School, Javantri; RMSA

Secondary School, Ganglasan; RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad; Old Government School,

Mudana and RMSA Secondary School, Javantri). While nine schools found without running water

facility in toilets. Toilets are cleaned and maintained by 5 schools with running water supply.

c. Is there any separate toilet for girls? Is the location of the girl's toilet safer? Please

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comment on the availability of the Sanitary napkins & dustbins in the school,

Four schools (Old Government School, Gramdipatiya; Old Government School, Vaghapura; Old

Government School, Babra and Old Government School, Bamroli) do not have separate toilets for

boys and girls. Location of girls’ toilet is found to be safe in all the schools except in RMSA

Secondary School, Motanayta; RMSA Secondary School, Bhatasan; Old Government School

Vaghapura, and Old Government School, Babra. Sanitary napkins were not found to be available in

any of the visited schools. Dustbins are found to be available, though inadequate, in seven schools.


There is no provision for toilets for physically challenged students in any of the visited schools. They

use the same toilet used by other students.

e. Are lavatories single pit/ double pit attached with septic tank? Is the septic tank cleaned

regularly?

Four schools have single pit (Old Government School, Gramdipatiya; Old Government School,

Mudana; Old Government School, Bamroli and RMSA Secondary School, Javantri). While two

school RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad and Old Government School, Mudana have double pit

attached with septic tank. All the schools with toilet facility was found to have attached septic tank.

The septic tanks are cleaned in the schools as per the requirement.

12. Drainage System

a. Whether drainage facility is available in the school. If yes, Type of drains (Underground/

Pucca & Covered/Pucca & Open/ Kutcha & Open)

Eight schools are found without drainage facility. Four schools are found to have underground/Pucca

drainage (RMSA Secondary School, Motanayta; Old Government School, Garamadipatiya; RMSA

Secondary School, Bhatasan and RMSA Secondary School, Javantri). Rests of schools have Kutcha

and open drainage system.

b. Please comment on the structural condition and regular cleaning of drains in the school. Is

there any instance of water logging?

Condition of drains is found to be good in four schools. While rest of the schools have poor

condition of drainage system. Drains are cleaned on monthly basis in four schools. While rest of the

schools get it cleaned as per need. None of the school have instances of water logging in monsoon

season.




Waste water treatment & discharge arrangement is not found in any of visited schools.

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b. Is there any waste collection facility available in the school? Please comment on

the adequacy and condition of bins?

Adequate bins are available for collection in six schools.(RMSA Secondary School, Garamadipatiya;

RMSA Secondary School, Javantri; RMSA Secondary School, Ganglasan; RMSA Secondary

School, Alhabad; RMSA Secondary School, Mudana and Old Government School, Bamroli). The

condition of waste collection bins was found to be average.

c. Is there any facility for treatment of waste and composting of organic waste?

None of the school is found to have facility for treatment and composting of organic waste.





None of the RMSA schools is found to have rain water harvesting facility available in school. Hence

water conservation measures were found to be ignored in most of the schools.




Lighting facility is found to be different in all the schools. Most of the schools have been found to be

using ordinary tube lights. Some of the teachers in two schools (RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad

and Old Government School, Mudana) are found to be aware of the use of renewable source of

energy like gobar-gas plant, solar energy and wind energy etc. However, in none of these schools

renewable source of energy are found to be utilized.


a. Is the physical condition of the building good? Is there any special structural facility

to cope with natural hazard (flood/ cyclone/ earthquake)

Physical condition of building is found to be good in two schools, namely Old Government School,

Gramdipatiya and RMSA Secondary School, Javantri. However, the physical condition of building is

found to be poor in RMSA Secondary School, Motanayta; RMSA Secondary School, Bhatasan,

RMSA Secondary School, Javantri and Old Government School, Gadsai. No special structural

facility to cope with natural hazard (flood/ cyclone/ earthquake) is found in any of visited schools.

b. Whether the width of the stair case is sufficient or not & alternative exit gates are

available for emergency evacuation in the case of double storied structure.


alternative exit gates are not available for emergency evacuation in the case of double

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storied structure .

c. Is the disaster preparedness plan & emergency evacuation plan available in the school?

Whether all students & teachers are aware of it & trained to handle the disaster situations,


schools. Students are not found to be aware of it & they have not been taught in the classes about this

subject. None of the teachers have received any training to handle the disaster situations in the

visited schools due to their limited awareness about it.

d. Whether fire extinguishers (s) are available in the labs, kitchen etc. in the school and

are in working condition? Whether the school authorities including students are trained

in using the fire extinguishers in case of eventuality,

In 8 schools, fire extinguishers are available and in most of these schools it is installed in HM

room/Staff room. In 7 schools the fire extinguishers are found to be in working condition. The

school staffs in 3 schools are found to be trained for using the fire extinguishers in case of

eventuality. However, the students are not found to be trained for using it.

e. Whether contact numbers for Ambulance, Fire Brigade and nearby Hospital is available and

displayed in school.

In 7 schools contact number for ambulance, fire brigade and nearby hospital is available however

none of the schools displayed these contact numbers in the school.


Many schools have been allocated the land for the construction of their own school building.

However, the construction of the building is yet to begin.


a. Construction activity undergoing in school does not hamper academic activities in

school?

b. Does not vitiate air, water & land quality in school & noise level is within permissible

limit,



The above mentioned 4 points are not applicable as the construction is yet to begin in all the new

RMSA schools.

2. Procurement Aspects: Not Applicable


b. What is stage of construction? Whether construction work done is in line with the lay out

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plan?



e. Whether












The above mentioned points are not applicable as the construction is yet to begin in all the new

RMSA schools.




The SMDC is found to exist in all schools. The SMDC members are not found to be familiar with

their roles and responsibilities as notified by the state Government in 3 schools (RMSA Secondary

School, Motanayta; Old Government School, Babra and Old Government School, Gadsai).


In most of the schools the SMDC members are found to be familiar with the SEMIS data captures

format and school report card. Only three schools (RMSA Secondary School, Bhatasan; Old

Government School, Vaghapura and RMSA Secondary School, Javantri) are not found to have

familiarity with the SEMIS data captures format, school report card and SMDC Register.

c. The guidelines regarding School Development Plan and training received by them in this

regard.

The SMDC in three schools (RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad, Old Government School, Mudana,

Old Government School, Bamroli) have received guideline and one day training to prepare the SDP.

2. Frequency of SMDCs meetings held & issues discussed thereof. Average

attendance of the SMDC Members.

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The SMDC in all the visited schools has total 125 male and 47 female members in this district. The

SMDCs meetings is found to be held on monthly basis in six schools, quarterly in 3 schools and

occasionally in rest of the schools.

3. What are the roles of SMDCs members in monitoring of teachers and students

attendance?

The SMDC in 11 schools are found to be monitoring student’s attendance. While the teachers’

attendance is found to be monitored by HM only in all the visited schools.


In Four schools (RMSA Secondary School, Motanayta; RMSA Secondary School, Bhatasan; RMSA

Secondary School, Alhabad and Old Government School, Mudana) the SMDC members are found to

participate in preparation of AWP & B. This record is submitted to the MIS, SSA Office for the data

entry and processing.

5. Whether members of the SMDC have received any training? If so, how many

members?

The members of the SMDC have received training for 2 days in most of the schools during March,

2013. About 50 percent of the SMDC members have received the training in these schools.

6. When these trainings were held? Who conducted the trainings? What is the SMDCs

members’ perception of the trainings?

These training are held once a year. The district office conducts these training. The SMDC members

perceive these training as useful for developing school development plan (SDP).



The master list of all the schools has been prepared.


Data Capture Format (DCF) for this academic year has been distributed to all schools in September,

2013.

3. What kind of training on filling up of DCF was provided to the teacher/head teacher? Four

Four days training has been provided to the head teacher on filling up of DCF in all Old Govt.

Schools under RMSA.



The data has been received from all the schools in the Data Capture Formats for the current year.

This record is submitted to the MIS, SSA Office for the data entry and processing.

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5. Do the schools have a copy of the filled-in Data Capture Formats (DCF) for record and

reference?

Ten schools are found to have a copy of the filled in DCF for current year 2013-14.


The school report card has been generated and distributed to all the Old Govt. Schools.



The Data Capture formats are with the district office and Sample checks is ongoing.





Therefore the District office has no information with regard to the data analysis and its

dissemination.

10. Are the school authorities aware of the importance of the data collected under MIS and are

they using this data?




All the Old Govt. schools use this data for planning and budgeting. However, many of the new

RMSA schools are not utilizing it.


Backup of data supplied under SEMIS is properly maintained by most of the schools.


1. Nature of financial records and registers maintained specially cash book - is it maintained

on daily basis and is the bank reconciliation carried out on monthly basis?

Financial registers such as cashbook and pass book were found to be available in 13 schools, though

not maintained and updated in 3 schools. While asset register is found to be available and maintained

in nine schools.


E-Transfer is found as the common mode of transfer of funds to SMDC from state/ district level.


Eleven schools have received the school annual grant. Pravas Grant is also received by all the school.

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Minor Repairing grant has not been received by any school.

4. System for the withdrawal and payment of fund from the SMDC account (Cash/ Cheque).

The HM and one of the members of the SMDC were found to be the common drawing and

disbursing authority in all the Old Government schools. However, in all RMSA secondary schools

the funds are managed by the DEO/Office.


community. If yes, is there any instance of community expressing objection/reservation

about any transaction?

Proposal for expenditure and expenditure statements are shared with the community in five schools.

There is no instance of community expressing objection/reservation about any transaction in these

schools. The proposal for expenditure and expenditure statements are not applicable to all the new

RMSA schools (05 schools) as the fund is managed by District Education Office under RMSA.


community.

The SMDC is found to be covered by the audit in most of the Old Govt. Schools. However, in none

of the visited school the audit observations were found to be shared with the community.

7. Is social audit being done (Display of financial information- receipts and payments, on the

notice board/ wall of the school).

No social auditing was reported for any of the visited school. No school is found to display about

financial Information-receipts and payments on notice boards/School wall.


None of the visited schools are found with instances of community mobilized resources/donations

for schools in 2013-14.

9. Status of Utilization Certificates submitted by SMDC: period for which it has been

submitted to District Project Office.

In all the Old Govt. Schools, the SMDC is found to have submitted Utilization Certificate to the

District Education Office during March and December, 2013. The UC for the said grant has not been

submitted in most of the new RMSA schools as the fund is managed by District Education Office

under RMSA.

10. Comment on the process of settlement of advance and collection of Utilization Certificate

by SPO and DPO

The SMDC accounts in all the new RMSA schools are managed by District Education Office (DEO)

under RMSA. The Utilization Certificate of all the RMSA schools is prepared and submitted to the

DEO for settlement of advance.

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11. A Financial statement for the SDMC/ DPO/ SPO

Data

Name of

the Unit:

A Opening

Balance as

on 1st April

2013

B Funds

received

C=A+B Total

Fund available till

that date

D Expenditure

E=C-D

Closing

balance as on

SMDC 0 5,50,000 5,50,000 5,50,000 0

DPO 786654 0 786654.00 0 786654.00

SPO Annexure D

for details

Note: i. Grant at SMDC level includes only the School Annual grant received at the school level

ii. The quarter wise financial status of RMSA at SPO level as on 30.09.2013 is attached as

Annexure-D.



Eleven schools are found to receive school annual grant (Rs 50000/- per school) in March 2013. The

new RMSA schools do not have the record about date of receiving annual grant. In these schools the

funds and their utilization is managed by District Education Office (DEO). The school principal

doesn’t have the access to the funds as the schools are running in the government upper primary

schools (UPS)..

2. Please comment on the status of utilization of funds (% of the Total) and whether the

utilization has been done as per norms of the scheme.

All the schools have utilized the school annual grant as per norms.



Minor Repair Grant has not been released to any of the existing RMSA schools as these schools do

not have their own building. None of the Old government RMSA schools have received minor repair

grant in this year.

2. Please comment on the status of utilization of funds (% of the Total) and whether the

utilization has been done as per norms of the scheme.

None of the Old government schools have received minor repair grant this year in this district.

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Utilization of grants for repair and white wash of the school building is not applicable to any of the

existing RMSA schools as these schools do not have their own building.

12. INNOVATIONS


None of the visited school is found to have prepared any innovative proposals during the current

financial year at DPO and state level both





3. Monitoring institutions should review the progress of all innovative activities taken up in a

district or has been completed with respect to innovative activities funded from the innovation

component under RMSA.

a. What are the main reasons and why the objectives have not been met in case so?

Funds have not been sanctioned for the said purpose and DEO has not been able to meet the

objectives.

b. Whether effective monitoring and evaluation mechanisms have been put in place?


funds.




The MI has not identified any successful element that can be scaled up under RMSA as no

innovative activity has taken place in the district.


I. Staffing pattern

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1. The total number of staff sanctioned category wise in the State/ District office under

RMSA and the number in position and action taken to fill up the vacancies?

At state level 15 post are in position. Out of these 15 post, 12 post are filled and 03 post -1 MIS

project coordinator; 1 civil work project coordinator and 1 Account assistant are lying vacant.

However, these 3 positions have been advertised in the local daily newspaper.



In Position 12 02

Vacant 3 00


Out of 12 filled in post, only one post is on deputation basis and rest of other are on contractual

basis. Both the posts at district level are contractual.




Seven project coordinator post one each for Tender & Procurement, Planning & Training, Finance,

MIS, Yoga, Civil & Monitoring & Evaluation are sanctioned. However, Project Coordinator post for

Civil & MIS are vacaned. There is no post sanctioned for the components- Gender and Equity (Pls.

see Annexure- E).


made.

One office assistant and one stenographer are appointed at state level.



The officials and staff at state level are clear to some extent about the objectives, targets and goals

of the programmed and their role in the management structure. However, they need more orientation

regarding the same.


1. What are the monitoring tools/ mechanism (reports, visits etc.) used at school and district

level to ensure effective implementation of the scheme. Please give details along with time

schedules.

The district coordinator (DC) is expected to visit 2 schools per week. The visit of the DEO is

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occasional & as per the need. Monitoring format (Surprise Visit Form) has been developed at the

State level for district visit. The surprise visit from covers various components like basic information

of the school, teachers information, physical facilities, education related activities, ICT School

project, review of different Educational Committees, Classrooms, result of last 5 years and analysis

of different work done using different school grants.







State Council of Education Research & Training (SCERT)) etc. however, they take their

expertise in preparation of teachers’ training module. They also help in training the master trainers or

the Key Resource Persons (KRPs). The state level training for the KRPs is imparted at IL & FS

Education and Technology Services Limited.


Recruitment of the permanent teaching staff as well as science and math’s teachers at school level is

required in all the RMSA schools. The construction of the own building of RMSA schools should

begin to have smooth functioning at school level.

IV. State Database


their annual/perspective plan for access. Please also specify mechanism other than GIS

mapping adopted by the State.


2. Whether the database mechanism (MIS) at District level is in place or not? If not what are

the sources of data used for plan preparation at District level?

The database mechanism SEMIS has been replaced as UDISE and it is in place


With the help of UDISE, the block level data has been prepared. However, the district level data will

be ready by end of January, 2014.

V. Research



No Research Projects has been undertaken during the current financial year at district level

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14. ANY OTHER ISSUES RELEVANT TO RMSA IMPLEMENTATION: Patan

Problems:

Infrastructure: None of the new RMSA secondary Schools have their own building. They

are functioning in Government Upper primary Schools (UPS). Therefore these schools face

problem accommodating entire students, teacher etc. Lack of own school building is found

to be the major problems faced by the school students and the teachers. All the 5 new RMSA

schools in Patan district face many problems like absence of toilet facility, lack of subject

specific teachers, lack of library and science laboratory etc.

CWSN: There is no provision of the Resource Teachers (RTs) for CWSN in any of the

visited schools under RMSA.

Grants: The grant is managed by the District Education Office in all the new RMSA

schools. Annual grant is mostly utilized for furniture & benches for the students. Students

excursion grant (@ Rs 200/- per student) is sanctioned to 11 schools on 18th June, 2013.

The SMDC Members’ Talim Grant has been received by 6 schools during March 2013. The

Environment Climate Change Grant is given to 11 schools in February, 2013.

Other Issues: RMSA Secondary School Javantri has a huge campus surrounded by trees.

Therefore snakes are several times noticed in the school posing danger to the children. Early

marriage (between 8-16 years) is prevalent for both boys and girls in some villages. There

are about 60 students per class in this school which should be reduced as teachers find it

difficult to handle big class.

Strength:

Ram Rahim is an NGO running free coaching classes for children in some of the schools

under RMSA.The RMSA Secondary School Javantri has 11 functional computer sunder

CAL and have no repairing problem.







No Action Research has been conducted by the teachers/external agencies for finding out solutions

to users pertaining to pedagogy/quality.

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Annexure 3.1 List of School under RMSA: Patan District

Sr.

No.

Name of School U-DISE

Code

Village Block standard

1 Old Government School, Bamroli 24030900902 Sidhada Santalpur 9 to 10th

2 Old Government School, Patan 24030324705 Vanraj Patan 9 to 12th

3 Old Government School, Golivada 24030305202 Sariyad Patan 9 to 10th

4 Old Government School, Vaghpura 24030909001 Parsund Santalpur 9 to 10th

5 Old Government School, Gramdipatiya 24030903102 Madhutra Santalpur 1 to 10th

6 Old Government School, Gadsai 24030902902 Amarapur Santalpur 9 to 10th

7 Old Government School, Mudana 24030504302 Samoda Sidhpur 9 to 10th

8 Old Government School, Babara 24030900701 Santalpur Santalpur 9 to 10th

9 Old Government School, Piparala 24030905902 Madhutra Santalpur 9 to 10th

10 RMSA Secondary School, Bhatsan 24030302005 Bhatsan Patan 9 to 10th

11 RMSA Secondary School, Motanayata 24030311904 Motanayata Patan 9 to 10th

12 RMSA Secondary School, Alhabad 24030800202 Ariansar Radhanpur 9 to 10th

13 RMSA Secondary School, Javantri 24030802802 Mahemdabad Radhanpur 9 to 10th

14 RMSA Secondary School, Ganglasan 24030501701 Ganglasan Siddhpur 9 to 10th

Old Government School : 9 RMSA Secondary School : 5 ; Total : 14

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Annexure 3.2 Copy of Office Order, Notification, etc. : Patan District

3.2.1: Filled-in DISE Form: (Received from Old Government School. Patan)

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3.2.2: School Leaving Certificate: (Received from Old Government School, Golivada)

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Annexure 3.3 Selected photographs of RMSA Schools: Patan District

Centrally Located Blackboard: Old Government School, Mudana

Blackboard Centrally Located: RMSA Secondary School, Bhatsan

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Different Design Building: Old Government School, Garamdi Patiya

Students in Uniform: Old Government School, Mudana

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Drinking Water Facility: Old Government School, Mudana

Drinking Water Facility: Old Government School, Patan.

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Fire extinguisher: Old Government School, Bamroli

Fire extinguisher in Staff Room: Old Government School, Patan

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Tin Roof: Old Government School, Bamroli

Roles of Principal Displayed: Old Government School, Patan

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Girls Are Using Library: Old Government School, Patan

Library Cupboard: Old Government School, Patan

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Trophies Received By Students In :Old Government School, Patan

Girls Playing Volleyball: Old Government School, Patan

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Girls in Computer Lab: Old Government School, Patan

Schedule For Computer Instructor: Old Government School, Patan

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Toilet Facility: Old Government School, Mudana

Urinal without Water: Old Government School, Bamroli

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Toilet Ramp : Old Government School, Garamndi Patiya

Separate Toilets with Roof: Old Government School, Garamndi Patiya

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.

Urinals without Roof: RMSA Secondary School, Motanayta

Toilets with Door: Old Government School, Patan

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Unused and Broken Toilets: Old Government School, Piparala

Ramp: RMSA Secondary School, Motanayta

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Ramp: RMSA Secondary School, Motanayta

Unsafe Underground Water Tank: Old Government School, Piparala

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Blackboard Location: Old Government School, Piparala

Class Room: Old Government School, Golivada

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Over all Suggestions & Recommendation in all 3 districts

School Infrastructure- None of the new RMSA secondary schools have their own

building. They are functioning in Government Upper primary Schools (UPS). In this

situation both the schools face problem accommodating entire students, teacher, etc.

Lack of own school building is found to be the major problems faced by the school

students and the teachers. The staff and students of the new RMSA schools keep

thinking that they would be shifted any moment and this is a temporary arrangement

for them. They lack all adequate infrastructure, computer facility, library, science

laboratory, adequate toilet and drinking water facility . Art/ Craft room was not found

in any of the visited schools.

Monitoring Strategy- The Monitoring Strategy needs to be followed more firmly.

The District Coordinator (DC) is expected to visit 2 schools per week. However in

Kheda district the visits of the DC are found to be irregular.

Counselling Cell-There is no guidance and counseling cell, for the children at school

level in any of the 3 districts visited by the MI. There is scarcity of consellor as only

one counselor has been appointed for 3 districts. Hence counselling cell is yet to be

operational in the visited districts.

Lack of subject teachers- There are no science and mathematics teachers in most of

the new RMSA schools which is found to be a major problem faced by the students

and the principal.

Financial Management- In all new RMSA secondary schools the funds are managed

by the DEO/Office and not by the SMDC due to non-availability of the own building.

No school is found to display financial Information on the notice boards/School wall.

Annual grant is mostly utilized for furniture & benches for the students. Annual grant

is mostly utilized for furniture & benches for the students in case of new RMSA

schools and delivered through the DEO.

Staffing Pattern-Most of the District Coordinators (DCs) are fresh MBA graduates

without much exposure to the education field. Experienced staff need to be recruited

or the capacity building training of the existing DCs can be conducted on priority

basis.

Equity: There is no separate hostel facility for the students in any of the RMSA

schools. Residential facility can be provided to some of the deserving students under

RMSA, especially the children of migrant parents, casual workers & BPL families.

Open Schooling: The Gujarat State Open School (GSOS) is established at the state

level. However, it is not directly linked with the RMSA. The GSOS conducts

examination for class Xth and XIIth. It has total 416 study centres all over Gujarat

and 17 study centres in Kheda, 12 study centres in Anand and 11 study centres in

Patan district. No academic support is extended to the students of Open Schools.

Only the administrative matters including the advertisement for application,

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management/conduction of the Examination, providing space for the examination

centres etc. are taken care of by the GSOS Department.

Drop Out Children: There are evidences of drop out children in all 3 districts. In

some of the schools HMs have contacted parents and counselled them to bring these

children back to the school. No record of the re-admission of these children was

found in any such schools.

CWSN: No medical check-up for CWSN from any of the RMSA schools has been

organized in the visited schools. Some deserving CWSN children are not issued the

certificate due to absence of diagnosis camps. There is no provision for resource

teachers for CWSN in RMSA Schools

Pedagogical Matters: Since 2011-12, the surplus teachers in the schools with upper

primary classes are accommodated with secondary education under RMSA.

Therefore, there is no fresh appointment of teachers. There is huge scarcity of

specialised subject teachers especially for Science and Mathematics in all the New

RMSA schools.. Students are found to be poor in English, Science and Maths in most

of the schools due to lack of specialised teachers. In all the new RMSA schools the

double shift arrangement has been made to accommodate 2 schools due to which

teaching and learning get affected.

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Annexure A: Sample Table : Blockwise schools covered in visited districts

Districts

covedred

Name of Blocks covered with CRCs No. of

schools

covered Blocks

Covered Cluster Covered

Kheda Kathalal Apruji, Ananra, Fagvel, Chhipiyal

17 Mahmdavad Kuna, Chapra, Sansoli, Kachchai

Thasra Pipalvada, Rakhiyal

Nadiad Sodpur, Paldi, Piplata

Mahudha Dadusar, Singhali

Virpur Bor

Anand Khambhat Vadgam, Lunej, Mitali 12

Tarapur Bhatpura, Valandpura, Mahiari, Milrampura, Jafarganj, padra

Anklav Ambali, Hathipura

Petlad Bhavanipura

Patan Santalpur Sidhada, Parsund, Madhutra, Amarapur, Santalpur 14

patan Vanraj, Sariyad, Bhatsan, Motanayata

Radhanpur Ariansar, Mahemdabad

Sidhpur Samoda, Ganglasan

Total 43

Annexure-B: Details of persons contacted for field visit at State Level

Name Designation Contact No.

Vijay Patel Project Coordinator(Monitoring & Evaluation) 9978408508

Prarthana ben Asst. teacher Model Sch. 9978408509

R.H.Gol OSD-GSOS 909948725

Mr. B.K. Patel OSD - Training coordinator 9099924094

Annexure-C: Details of persons contacted for field visit at District Level

Name of

District

DEO Office Address DEO Name &

Mobile Number

District Coordinator Name &

Mobile Number

Kheda RTO Compound, Nadiad, Kheda-380002;

Phone:02682-550183 (O)

Mr. M.S. Acharya

9909970205

Jenam Shah- 9909364111

Anand Seva Sadan, Borsad Chokdi, Anand

02692-264153 (O)

Mr. K.A.Patel :

9909970231

Nimesh Patel- 9016114911

Patan Block No. 2, Seva Sadan, Patan- 384275,

Phone: 02766-230025 (O)

Mr.D. M. Solanki

9909970222

Nirav Patel- 9909905208

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Annexure-D : Financial Status as on 30th

Sept, 2013- State Level

Annexure-E: Staffing pattern with designation & filled in position at State level

Component wise

personnel

Position in place (Verify and put ‘√’ mark)

At State level At District level

Finance √

Civil Not filled

Quality √

Equity Not filled

Gender Not filled

Pedagogy √

Planning √

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Annexure -F: Annual Grant (District Wise ) Circular from RMSA, State Office

Note: Selected districts are highlighted

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Annexure-G: List of Abbreviations

Abbreviations Details

AWP&B Annual Work Plan & Budget

CAL Computer Assisted Learning

CFL Compact Fluorescent Light

CWSN Child With Special Need

DPO District Project Office

DCF Data Capture Format

DEO District Education Officer/Office

DIET District Institute of Education & Training

EBB Educationally Backward Block

FI Field Investigator

GIS Geographical Information System

GOI Government Of India

HI Hearing Impairment

ICT Information & Communication Technology

IEP Individualized Education Plan

MI Monitoring Institute

MI Multiple Impairment

MIS Management Information System

NIOS National Institute of Open Schooling

OBC Other Backward Classes

OH Orthopaedic Handicapped

OoSC Out of School Children

RMSA Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan

SC Scheduled Caste

SCERT State Council of Education Research & Training

SDP School Development Plan

SEMIS Secondary Education Management Information System

SIOS State Institute of Open Schooling

SMDC School Management & Development Committee

SPO State Project Office

ST Scheduled Tribe

ToR Terms of Reference

UC Utilization Certificate

UT Union Territories

VI Visual Impairment

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