Section 12 in Orissa School Education (Community Participations) Rules, 2000
12. Functions of the School Committee.
(1)The school committee in general shall -(a)Manage and supervise the-concerned N.F.E. center/primary/upper primary and High School in the locality;(b)plan for development of educational institutions of the feeding area of the school as delimited by the District Officers;(c)Conduct annual census of children of the age groups up to 5, 5+ to 11, 11 + to 14 and identify illiterate persons in the age group of 15 to 35;(d)Ensure enrolment of all non-enrolled children through enrolment drive and their retention in the school till they complete the elementary stage of education;(e)Ensure regularity of attendance of children in the school and present temporary discontinuance and drop out of children through persuasion of parents;(f)Co-ordinate the activities of Sikhye Sahayikas, Mahila Samities and other women activities to give a special thrust to girls enrolment attendance and retention; and(g)Prepare the budget, sanction expenditure and place proposal for expenditure before the P.T.A.(2)The school committee in particular shall-(a)Help expansion augmentation of school facilities as per need;(b)Beautify the school environment, develop playground children's park enrichment of plantation in school campus;(c)Review and monitor school health programme and ensure maintenance of child profile incorporating health aspects;(d)Maintain teaching-learning equipment like T.V., Two-in-one, Computers etc. to facilitate the learning.(e)Raise, maintain and manage school nurseries, school garden for implementing work education;(f)Ensure distribution of incentives such as mid-day meals, text books and other reading and writing materials,uniforms etc. and will attend the emergent needs of the school as would be necessary at the time of unforeseen accidents like fire, flood and cyclone :(g)Review coverage of courses/studies;(h)Insure excellence in overall performance of School children and review the progress of work of the School and other educational service after the examination is over;(i)Organise Sikhya Melas, Inter-school competition and sports;(j)Utilize the services of local persons preferably retired teachers,retired employees/persons interested in school matters making up all the deficiency of teachers from the community on voluntary basis or payment of fixed honorarium meeting the cost from the school education fund without creating any liability for the State Government/ Panchayats.(k)Invite local artisans and persons of other occupations to the school and organise interactions with the students;(l)Raise and manage school improvement fund/Corpus fund and ensure school development;Provided that the fund so raised shall be kept in the S.B. Account of the nearest post office or nationalized bank to be jointly operated by the President and Member-Secretary;(m)Ensure regular attendance of the teachers and checking of teacher's attendance register by the committee President or any member of the committee authorised by him/her and in case of irregularity, report the matter to the higher authorities;(n)Intimate to the P.T.A. about the fund raised, grants received and utilisation thereof for their information;(o)Prepare annual development plans for the school and other educational centers and submit to the Grama Panchayat/Panchayat Samiti concerned;(p)Communicate copies of all reports submitted to the higher authority to the Panchayat Samiti concerned;(q)Attending Grama Sabha meeting by the President on behalf of School Committee;(r)The proceeding of the School Committee meeting may be shown to the Sarpanch/B.D.O. and inspecting officers at the time of their visit to the school;(s)Convene P.T.A/M.T.A. meeting and celebrate Parent Day in the school;(t)Award the dedicated teachers for their regularity in attendance and participation in development of the institutions and of the community as a whole.(u)Help the teachers to manage the mid-day meal or day food distribution; and(v)Co-ordinate with other organisations like Anganwadi Centers connected with primary education.(3)The President of the school committee shall countersign the salary statement in support of regularity of their attendance.(4)The Government may, from time to time, entrust such other powers, duties and responsibilities on the V.E.C.
