School Infrastructure Maintenance Funds- allocation and operational guidelines

Government of Andhra Pradesh have taken up Mana Badi Nadu Nedua school

infrastructure development program in a phased manner. In Phase-I, 15,713

schools were taken up for improving the infrastructure. In the review meetingsthe

Government hasdirected that all the assets and equipment created under Nadu

Nedu,should be maintained by attending to the repairs in time as timely

maintenance extends the life of the assets , buildings and infrastructure.

2. Constitution of School maintenance Fund (SMF):

In the pursuance of the instructions of the Government, School Maintenance Fund

(SMF) is constituted in the School Education Dept. The Program Director Mana Badi

Nadu Nedu shall manage the fund at state Head Quarters. In the first instance, it is

proposed to release SMF – revolving fund based on the indent through STMS for

maintenance of school infrastructure taken up under Nadu Nedu Phase I.This

revolving fund will be directly released to the Parent’s committee account of Nadu

Nedu phase I through STMS. The detailed component wise repairs and maintenance

whichcan taken up in Government schoolsis enclosed in Annexure –I

3. Implementation Process :

a) The parents committee shall decide five members (with minimum three

women members) from the Parents Committee (PC) for cheque signing.

These five members shall be from elected Parent members only. Besides

these five members, the HM, CRP, the Sachivalayam engineer,

Sachivalayam Education Asst also shall be authorized as joint account

signatories for cheques.

b) The five members of parent committee members, HM, CRP, Sachivalayam

Engineer, Sachivalayam Education Asst who are the joint signatories of the

cheque shall form as school development committee. Out of nine

signatories of cheque, minimum 7 (all 9 can also sign) should be signing

the cheque at any given point of time. HM signature and Sachivalayam

Engineer signature are must on every cheque/payment. The School

Development committee shall be accountable to the Parents committee

and inform all the transactions in their monthly meetings.

c) The HM along with the parent committee members shall identify the

repairs required to be taken up with the SMF – revolving fund available

and discuss and pass a resolution on the repair items to be taken up. The

resolution shall be signed by all the nine members and the same should be

uploaded in STMS App .

d) Once the SMF committee identifies the list of repairs and the approximate

estimated amount, the same shall be entered in STMS by the HM in the

mobile App along with component wise photos reparable items where the

expected repairs are to be attended.