As Per Worldbank Report.docx

As per worldbank report, KEYHIGHLIGHTS As a percentage of GDP, countries spend an average of 4.77percent (World) on primary education. Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) spends an average of 5.70 percent; East Asia & Pacific (EAP) region spends approximately 4.87 percent; Europe and Central Asia (ECA) spends an average of 4.83 percent; Middle East and North Africa (MENA) spends approximately 4.75 percent; Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) spends approximately 4.63percent; and South Asia spends an average of 3.81percent. Government expenditure on education, total (% of GDP) 1997

3.41

1998

3.62

1999

4.48

2000

4.38

2001 2002 2003

3.66

2004

3.40

2005

3.23

2006

3.19

2007 2008 2009

3.31

2010

3.42

2011

3.84

2012

3.87

2013

3.84

2014 2015 2016 2017 Government expenditure on education as % of GDP (%) – 3.84 (2013) At around 4% GDP, india’s expenditure on education is behind that of comparable economies. Wprld bank data for 2012 shows that countries like Brazil and South Africa were spending at least 6% of their GDP on education. Also the spending on training has one of the lowest priorities in expenditure in india.

As per budget 2018: Health, education, sanitation allocation is as given below: Year 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

HRD ministry Budget (in Rs Cr) 110351.10 96649.76 92666.65 79685.95 85010.29

Total Central Budget Share of Total (in rs Cr) Central Budget (%) 1794891.96 6.15 1777477.04 5.44 1978060.45 4.68 2146734.78 3.71 2442213.30 3.48

In absolute terms, this Budget of Rs 85,010 crore breaks a declining trend in allocation to the HRD ministry under the Modi government and is a Rs 5,324 crore or 6.7 % rise from 2017-18, when Rs 79,685 crore was allocated. However, as a share of the total Union Budget, the HRD ministry’s allocation has dropped 0.23 % points to 3.48 % in 2018-19 – the lowest since 2014-15 – from 3.71 % in 2017-18, (http://www.indiabudget.gov.in/index.asp). In five years to 2018-19, that is a drop of 2.7 percentage points to 3.48 percent from 6.15 percent in 2014-15.