Budget allocations for education sector to be debated on Monday
View(s):The government has prepared action plans for each allocation pertaining to the Education Ministry in the budget, Deputy Education Minister Dr Madhura Seneviratne told Education Times.
The budgetary allocation for the ministry will be taken up for debate tomorrow in Parliament.
This year, the total allocation for education is Rs 619 billion, out of which Rs 520.1 is for recurrent expenditure, while 98.9 million is for the capital expenditure.
The ministry has allocated sums for specific projects under the education sector which will be taken up during tomorrow’s debate.
Among the highlights are the allocation for upgrading facilities in schools (Rs 1.2 billion), maintenance of education related assets under the purview of provincial councils (Rs 5.7 billion), for rehabilitation and improvement of schools under provincial councils (Rs 9.1 billion), rehabilitation and improvement of National Colleges of Education (Rs 1.0 billion) and for rehabilitation and improvement of schools for secondary education (Rs 2.79 billion).
The ministry allocation also includes welfare programmes. They include the subsidy for schools, vocational education and higher education season tickets (Rs 11.5 billion), school nutritional food programme (Rs 32.1 billion), printing school text books (Rs 15. 5 billion), school uniforms (Rs 6.4 billion), shoes for students in underfunded schools and piriven (Rs 2.5 billion) and loan schemes for students (Rs 2.78 billion).
Highest allocation is for school education (Rs 456. 6 billion) followed by university education (Rs 135.3 billion), science and technology (Rs 6.05 billion), pre-primary education (Rs 4.4 billion) and dhamma school education (Rs 1.3 billion).
The deputy minister said a main focus will be improving digital education. (DWI)
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