Odisha HRD

Orissa not taking adavantage of the Ashram School scheme

Ashram Schools in tribal areas is another central govt. scheme. However, as the following PIB shows, Orissa has not been taking advantage of it in recent years. (Orissa did take advantage of it in the past.) Its not clear if this is because Orissa decided to focus more on the Ekalavya Vidyalayas as in case of the Ekalavya Vidyalayas the funding is 100% from the central govt. while in case of the Ashram Schools the funding is 50% central and 50% state. In any case, here is the recent PIB on Ashram Schools.

Ministry releases grants to the States for construction of Ashram School in  Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) Areas, boys and girls hostels and Post Matric Scholarship is a continuous process. The grant-in-aid is released only if the proposals are complete in all respects including availability of land free of cost, confirmation about availability of matching share in the State budget, Utilization Certificate for grants released in previous years and physical progress reports in respect of proposals sanctioned in previous years and the availability of funds.  This was stated by the Minister for Tribal Affairs, Shri P.R. Kyndiah in a reply to a question by Shri M.A.M. Ramswamy in Rajya Sabha today.

The scheme-wise and year-wise funds released to States/UTs including Karnataka during last three years are as follows:

Grant in aid released under the scheme of Ashram Schools in TSP Areas

S.No.	Name of State/UT	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
		Amount	Amount	Amount
1.	Gujarat	86.49	200.00	156.52
2.	Madhya Pd.	300.00	200.00	624.01
3.	Karnataka	77.51	150.00	400.00
4.	Maharashtra	86.00	50.00	256.71
5.	Chattishgarh	0	0	112.76
	Total	550.00	600.00	1550.00

Grant released under the scheme of Boys/Girls Hostel to various State Govt. during the last three years.

(Rs. in lakh)

S. No.	Name of State/UT	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
		Amount	Amount	Amount
1.	Andhra Pd.	0	0	120.00
2.	Gujarat	67.60	0	0
3.	Himachal Pd.	0	108.18	82.39
4.	Madhya Pd.	300.00	724.00	305.00
5.	Manipur	0	142.70	123.51
6.	Meghalaya	0	0	200.00
7.	Orissa	0	0	56.50
8.	Rajasthan	0	0	190.50
9.	West Bengal	0	6.71	0
10.	J & K	0	0	204.99
11.	Karnataka	120.00	86.00	170.79
12.	Maharashtra	242.04	194.46	0
13.	Nagaland	151.00	116.52	221.09
14.	IIT Delhi	234.88	64.21	440.91
15.	Jharkhand	98.86	0	250.16
16.	Chattishgarh	0	0	165.00
17.	Arunachal Pradesh	20.50	21.43	180.07
18.	Punjab University, Chandigarh	65.12	100.79	0
19.	Delhi University	0	0	100.00
	Total	1300.00	1565.00	2810.91

December 3rd, 2007