New Delhi: It has been a mixed bag as far as fund allocation for various educational schemes in this year’s budget. There has been a drop in allocation for Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan and National Scheme for Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education and increase in funds for Kendriya Vidyalayas and mid-day meal scheme.
The Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, one of the nation’s biggest school education schemes, saw funds reduced to Rs 31,050.16 crores from 38,750.50 crores last year.
Funds for the National Scheme for Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education has been dropped by over 100 crores. This year, the scheme has been allocated Rs 1 crore as compared to Rs 110 crores last year.
Funds for the Kendriya Vidyalayas saw an increase as the KVs have been issued Rs 6,800 crores for the upcoming financial year as compared to Rs 5,516 crores last year.
The budget allocation to Navodaya Vidyalayas has been increased by Rs 500 crores. Last year, Rs 3,300 crores were allocated to Navodaya Vidyalayas while for this year, the funds have been raised to Rs 3,800 crores.
Mid-day meal scheme saw an increase of Rs 500 crores as the total allocation has been raised to Rs 11,500 crores from Rs 11,000 last year.
