Evaluation of Plan Schemes of the Department of Official Language

6. the impact of award schemes.
METHODOLOGY
This study has attempted to examine the working of the non plan schemes
with respect to (a) output, (b) processes and (c) impact of the schemes.
The outputs include, as a first step, a comparison between plan
allocations (budget estimates) and actual expenditures. But more
importantly, the actual performance with respect to the physical targets has
been assessed. The data for this exercise were supplied by the DOL both
for the plan period and annually, and were also culled out from the
Department’s Annual Reports and Outcome Budgets and from the C-DACs
Annual Report and data provided by them.
The processes studied include the constitutional and legal provisions and
policy formulations/announcements/directions. The organizational structure
of the DOL and its agencies, both promotional and monitoring, were studied.
Other key inputs came from the write-up on the plan schemes provided by
the DOL, the department’s web-site, the agreement document between C-
DAC and DOL and other material. These were re-enforced by visits to
various agencies and discussions with officials, faculty and others.
The impact was studied at three levels. First was the feedback of the
users. This was obtained from the course-end the feedback and feedback
received from web-users in the case of C-DAC software. Also there were
interviews and/or discussions, both face-to-face and over the phone, with
the participants of various programmes.
Second, an assessment was attempted for gauging the quality and utility
of the various outputs from a more technical viewpoint. The opinions of
experts were obtained with regard to language inputs and the quality of
software. The latter was also available, to a limited extent, on the world-
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