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The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on the performance audit of Union Government (Civil) Educational Development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for year ended March 31, 2006 was tabled in Parliament today.
New Delhi, Aug 24 : The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on the performance audit of Union Government (Civil) Educational Development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for year ended March 31, 2006 was tabled in Parliament today.
The report contains results of performance audit of Educational Development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Tribal affairs.
Educational schemes are implemented by the Union Government with the objectives of enabling the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to upgrade their educational levels, increasing enrolment and retention, reducing drop out rates etc.
Deficiencies such as poor utilization of funds, non-availing of the benefits of schemes by different states, imbalances in the release of funds, unspent balances, delays in the release of funds and diversions of funds etc. were observed across most of the schemes.
In respects of the 'Scheme for grants-in-aid to voluntary organisations working for the welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes', it was observed that funds given to the blacklisted NGOs were not recovered.
In the case of the scholarship schemes and the 'Book bank scheme', monitoring mechanisms were not institutionalised and in the case of the other scheme, the relevant provisions were not followed. Inspection was not conducted in a systematic manner and no independent evaluation was conducted at the Union level or in most of the state. Internal audit of the schemes was also not conducted at the Union level and also in many states.
The SCs and STs constitute 16.23 and 8.2 per cent respectively of the country's population as per the 2001 census. The literacy rate of the scheduled castes and scheduled Tribes was 55 and 47 per cent according to the same census against the national literary rate of 65 per cent.
ANI
