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India's public spending on education less than 3% of GDP, Kothari Commission wanted it to be 6%
Counterview
22 July 2017
A recent Right to Education (RTE) Forum consultation in Delhi has revealed that the Government of India’s and state governments’ allocation for education is not even half of what well-known the Kothari Commission had recommended way back in...
Modi’s Flagship Irrigation Scheme Has Been Substantially Watered Down
The Wire
- 4 July 2017
On July 1, 2015, the cabinet committee on economic affairs approved an irrigation scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (the Prime Minister’s Agricultural Irrigation Scheme, widely known by the abbreviations of its Hindi name...
How the Ganga and GST are hijacking India’s clean energy fund
Scroll.in
- 4 July 2017
To say India has an unhealthy appetite for coal would be an understatement. Last year, coal production in India peaked at over 600 million tonnes and imports brought in an additional 200 million tonnes to the country’s shores. But even as the...
A Pittance for Our Children: Union Budget 2017–18
Economic & Political Weekly
- 24 June 2017
For the last 15 years, allocation to the child budget has remained stagnant at around 3% of the union budget. This analysis points out why this amount is proving completely inadequate in safeguarding the health, nutrition, education and protection...
Divide and Educate
Economic & Political Weekly
- 17 June 2017
Indian education is becoming increasingly divisive. Cuts in public funding for primary education and child welfare are laying the basis for new inequities in higher education. The funding of public universities is grossly unequal; the expansion of...
Unjust Budgetary Reductions in Priority Schemes Must be Rolled Back or Clearly Explained
The Wire
- 7 May 2017
A number of health and education schemes aimed at some of India’s most vulnerable groups have been slashed in this year’s Budget estimates. Why? While the Narendra Modi government has certainly raised allocations for several important sectors...
With its nominal hikes and many cuts, education activists say the Budget is a let-down again
Scroll.in
- 22 February 2017
Social groups working for the education of Dalit, Adivasi, disabled, Muslim and girl children detail reasons why they are so upset with the Budget. Education activists are used to being disappointed by successive Union Budgets, but say the one...
Gender Budget: Maternity scheme cut brings low allocation in focus
The Indian Express
- 20 February 2017
The Women and Child Development ministry’s move to restrict financial assistance under the maternity benefit scheme to only one live birth has brought in focus the issue of inadequate Budget allocation for welfare schemes for women. This year,...
‘Sabka vikas’ a far cry for the disabled
Business Line
- 19 February 2017
The disabled population of India, 2.68 crore as per Census 2011, seems an unhappy lot, as the Union Budget for 2017-18 has little to offer them apart from a mention of “lifts and escalators in 500 railway stations” in the Finance Minister’s...
Coverage of the release of Study Report on "How have States Designed their School Education Budgets?"
- 11 February 2017
Delhi Coverage: The Times of India: Low share of training, monitoring in state education budgets The Times of India: Study: States hardly invest in improving education quality PTI, Business Standard, Financial Express, India Today...