The competent authority under this Act shall exercise the following powers and functions, namely: -
(i) collection of up to date particulars regarding the number of the schools, pupils and children of school age in his jurisdiction;
(ii) conducting periodical review and personal verification of the particulars referred to in clause (i) and enumeration of the same from time to time;
(iii) organising meeting and cultural programmes etc., for cent per cent enrollment and retention;
(iv) mobilising local resources for equipping the schools and supplying the required teaching and learning materials;
(v) seeking improvement of the infrastructural facilities of the elementary schools with the help of parent-teachers association;
(vi) looking after the free supply of materials to children as may be sanctioned by the Government;
and
(vii) seeking the inter departmental co-ordination at all levels.