Education, health to be given highest allocation in Budget
1 year, 9 months ago

Education, health to be given highest allocation in Budget

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday inaugurated the Dr BR Ambedkar School of Specialised Excellence in Rohini. The education and health sectors are likely to again get the highest allocation in the Delhi government’s upcoming Budget for the 2023-24 financial year, officials aware of the matter said on Sunday. The two sectors have been the major focus points of the Aam Aadmi Party government, with the last year’s ₹75,800 crore budget seeing a 22% outlay for education, and 13% for the health sector. A Delhi government official said that Budget 2023-24 — likely to be presented in the Assembly on Tuesday — will, in the education sector, is likely to include allocations for projects such as expansion of schools of specialised excellence, providing computer tablets to teachers and principals of government schools, and improvement of the educational infrastructure of civic body schools. According to an economic survey conducted last year, the Delhi government’s directorate of education manages a total of 1,053 government schools and 204 government-aided schools, which altogether enrol about 1800,000 students and 70,111 teachers.

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Hindustan Times  

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