new delhi there is a good news for elementary education in india the planning commission has approved rs 16128 crore for various elementary education programmes for 200607 the major chunk of this allocation would be for the sarva shiksha abhiyan rs 11000 crore and the midday meal scheme rs 4348 crore though mdms demand of nearly rs 8000 crore has been barely halfmet ssa has witnessed a big jump from rs 7156 crore made available for 200506 the reason for the higher allocation for ssa stems from the fact that the scheme after facing teething problems in the initial years is taking a firm shape with many nonperforming states pulling up their socksin fact till january 31 the centre had already exceeded the budgetary allocation and released rs 7440 crore which takes the expenditure to 103 as far as utilisation of funds is concerned till december 31 2005 out of rs 9500 crore combined share of centre and states nearly rs 6200 crore has been utilisedaccording to the ministrys estimate the states which have utilised 60 and above are considered performing while those below 60 have to gear up furtherdelhi is among the poorest performing states it has utilised only 44 rs 918 crore of the rs 21 crore allocated to it kerala with near total literacy has also spent barely 526 of the funds according to sources its poor performance is on account of kerala not releasing its own share maharashtra has also spent only 50 west bengal 59 while bihars utilisation stands at 435