(1) The School Management Committee shall prepare a School Development Plan by 15th February of the financial year in which it is first constituted under the Act and afterwards once in three years..
(2) The School Development Plan shall be a three year plan comprising three annual sub-plans.
(3) The School Development Plan shall contain the following details:
(a) Estimates of class-wise enrolment for each year;
(b) Requirement, over the three year period, of the number of additional teachers, including Head Teacher, separately for Classes -I to V and Classes-VI to VIII, calculated with reference to the norms specified in the Schedule appended to the Act.
(c) Physical requirement of additional infrastructure and equipment over the three year period, calculated with reference to the norms and standards specified in the Schedule of the Act;
(d) Additional financial requirement over the three year period, year-wise, in respect of clauses (b) and (c) above, including additional requirement for providing special training facility specified in section 4 of the Act, entitlement of children such as free text-books and uniform and any other additional financial requirement for fulfilling the responsibilities of the school under the Act.
(4) The School Development Plan should be signed by the Chairperson and Member-Convener of the School Management Committee and submitted to the Inspecting Officer/Local Authority by the end of February of the financial year in which it is to be prepared.
PART–VI TEACHERS