RHEDT Budget Details :

Expenses Amount ( in rupees)
Auditing Charges
750
Resource Person
5,000
Traveling Allowance
5,000
Stationery and Postage
5,500
Education Materials
15,000
Teachers Salary ( 3 teachers X 1500/mo X 12 mo./year)
54,000
Entertainment and Educational Tours
10,000
Sub-total
95,250
Food (Noon meals) and Health care
1,00,000
Total
1,95,250

Educational Expenses:
Categories of Expenses Amount ( in rupees)
Books (Math, Tamil and English) 
4,000
Stationery: Notebooks, slates, pencils, color boxes
4,000
Playing materials
1,000
Prizes for competition
1,750
Education Movies
750
Tours and trips
750
Classrooms: Chairs and tables
2750
Total
15,000

STD Booth/Xerox Center Plan:
Goal: Establish a revenue earner to become self-sufficient
Means: Establish an STD booth cum Xerox center and employ the local tribal people.
Location: Karamadai bus station (Karamadai is a town between Coimbatore and Ooty).

STD Booth :
Per Day Income (est) = Rs. 500
Amount to telephone department Rs. 375 (75% of earnings)
Salary to employed folks Rs. 25-50
Profit (any) Rs. 100 /day

This yields about Rs. 36,000 a year as well as employment for at least 2 people. Supplemental income could be earned by running a photocopy center in the same location.
Estimated Establishment costs: (was in the previous letters) – I need to grab this information. It was something of the order of Rs. 1 lakh.
 

Noon Meal scheme:
Noon meal scheme was outlined in the letter received on Feb 5, 1997. The budget proposal is not fully correct and there are some errors. Following is the best estimate after taking some numbers off from the letter and Murali formulating the rest.
 
# Children/school 35
# schools 3
Rice/school/day 3 Kg
Price/bag Rs. 1200
Kgs/bag 80 Kgs
Total Rice required/day 9 Kgs
Total Price of Rice/day (9/80) * 1200 = Rs.135
Grocery/day/school Rs. 20
Grocery/day Rs. 60 ( for 3 schools)
Average Working days/mo 22
Cost/month = (grocery + rice) * # working days 22 * ( 135 + 60) = Rs. 4290 
Cook/school/month Rs. 250
Total Cost/month Rs. 4540 = $130
Feb – May 1997 (1 year = 4 ½ months) approx $ 550
June 97 – May 98 (assume 20 % rise in cost) ($130 * 12) * 1.2 = ($1560)*1.2 = $1872
June 98 – May 99 (assume 20% rise again) $2246