Monitoring and Supervision of civil and academic works by School Management Committees in Sikkim

This piece of research is an attempt to study the functioning of School Management Committees in civil and academic areas in the state of Sikkim. For the purpose of the study the investigator collected data from School management committee members of 40 elementary schools in east and north districts of Sikkim selected through purposive sampling. For this study, convergent parallel design of mixed method research was used. The qualitative data was analyzed using content analysis and quantitative data was analyzed statistically. The results of the research show that civil works of SMC took precedence over academic works in all schools. It was found that one major area of academic involvement was that of increasing enrolment and regulating dropouts.