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State department fluffs up numbers for convenience?

Edu dept says 19,000 girls out of school last year, but WCD says it fed 2.3 lakh

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Let alone coordination, the bureaucrats and ministers of various state departments never even so much as interact with each other, the Comptroller and Auditor General has found out. Scanning through the statistics of the school education and sports (SESD) and the women and child development (WCD) departments, the auditors noticed gross discrepancies.

While the education department had claimed that only 19,713 girls in the 11-14 age group were out of school in 2014-15, the WCD claimed that it had provided supplementary nutrition to 2.3 lakh out-of-school girls in the same age group.

The figures provided by WCD are 11 times higher compared to those quoted by the education department for the same year, implying that at least one of them has fudged the numbers. Incidentally, the audit period fell under the previous Congress-NCP regime, when Rajendra Darda and Varsha Gaikwad, both from Congress, headed the SESD and WCD respectively.

"The wide variation in the out-of-school girls identified by the two departments needs reconciliation and proper identification, to ensure that the right of children to free and compulsory education under the RTE Act is protected," notes the CAG report.
 

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