FINANCEANDACCOUNTS- Terminal Grants to the Sub-District Units- School Grant and School Maintenance Grant to the$MCs in the state - Sanction of Advance of Rs.10157.85 accorded - Orders - Issued.
This advance of Rs.10157.84 lakhs sanctioned and released to the District Project Offices as detailed in the annexure, is subject to fulfillment of SSA norms prescribed and also subject to the following specific conditions:
- The releases should reach the SMCs as per the data-statements furnished by the MEOsconcerned, within a period of (15) days (from the date of deposit into the Bank Accounts of the DPOs concerned) to SMCs' Bank Accounts. The (SMC-wise credits are being viewed by the Head Office CPSMSTeam and will ascertain the credit particulars ofthe grants at SMCs;
- The grants should be utilized as per SSAnorms prescribed, from time to time;
- drawal of lumpsum grant and keeping with the H.M.throughout the year as well as meeting the expenses initially from personal money by.the HMand drawal at the end of the year in lumpsum, as was observed by audit and officials earlier, are not permissible under any circumstances. The expenditure should be regulated throughout the year and rush of expenditure at any point oftime is not allowed;
- The bank accounts to which the grants are credited should exclusively operated for the funds released by RVM and in any case, it should not be a common pool account;
- No grant shall be released to a common pool account or closed school account or a zero enrollment school account of SMCs;
- the funds released now are indicative only but the releases at DPO level to the SMCs should be made only after ascertaining the eligibility -criteria and genuineness of the data-statements furnished by the sub-district units concerned.
- Allthe funds are for use at SMC level and any part thereof should not be diverted to MRCs or DPOs for any purpose;
- All the releases at DPO level should be communicated to the sub-district level units concerned immediately;
- The sub-district units concerned should furnish financial review reports (FRRs) on or , , before 5th of every month to the respective MRC/DPO indicating the part of expenditure incurred during preceding month, in the proforma prescribed along with Utilisation Certificates to that extent;
- In any case, the grants now sanctioned should be incurred before the closure of the financial year i.e. 31-3-2014 and the unspent balances, if any, should be remitted to the respective DPO.
