Education Inflation
The rising costs of higher education in India have become a significant barrier for many students, threatening to undermine the country’s aspirations for inclusive growth and development.
Twenty-six per cent of the Rs 53,000 crore Delhi Budget for 2018-19 has been allocated for education, Finance Minister Manish Sisodia announced on Thursday.
Sisodia told the Assembly in his Budget speech that education had been given about 25 per cent of the total budget for a third consecutive year.
The Deputy Chief Minister said tablets will be provided to all teachers in government schools to help them keep an online record of students.
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Sisodia also termed the budget a “Green Budget”, with a promise of round-the-year, real-time pollution study.
The study will be a part of a 26-point programme to control pollution in Delhi.
The other schemes in the programme include subsidy for gas tandoors for restaurants, new city forests in different areas, replacing all street lights with LED and 1,000 fully electric buses.
12.7% allocation for health
The Delhi government on Thursday allocated Rs 6,729 crore for the health sector in its 2018-19 budget, which is 12.7 per cent of the total.
The allocation is up from 12 per cent in 2017-18, Finance Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told the Assembly.
He said Rs 403 crore had been allocated for Mohalla Clinics and Polyclinics. Also, mobile van clinics were to be established with Rs 15 crore, he said.
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