{"id":17905,"date":"2019-06-26T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2019-06-26T15:21:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:21:24","slug":"why-is-indias-education-budget-still-low-after-the-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/why-is-indias-education-budget-still-low-after-the-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is India&#039;s Education Budget Still Low After The Improvement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We saw the development in India&#8217;s Education budget, but it&#8217;s still too low compared to the needs of the sector.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>It&#8217;s clear that the Indian education system needs a reboot.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We are waiting for the announcement from Nirmala Sitharaman, The Finance Minister on July 5 regarding the Union Budget.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>In 2018 Arun Jaitley, Former Finance Minister transferred \u20b9850 billion to the education fund. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, he announced that the number would increase by 10%, resulting in \u20b9930 billion for schools, universities and other educational institutions.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It took several surveys to realize that the Indian government had a limit (of course) to how much they could increase the spending on the education sector.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, the school education budget got \u20b9500 billion in 2019,<\/span><b> but those funds were allocated from prominent institutions (Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management). These institutions found a drop in their support.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017-2018 saw increased funds for the education system. The amount was \u20b9818 billion, which accounted for about 2.7% of the total GDP of India.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>The statistics show that the increase in funding the education sector of India is actual. But in comparison with other countries, it&#8217;s pretty low.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> China, Mauritius and other countries spend around 3.3% and 5% of their total GDP on funding education.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results will be seen if India increases its&#8217; education funding by 6% of its GDP in the course of the next four years. These changes are necessary to catch up with global education support and improve statistics. <\/span><b>Currently, India has the second-lowest score in education quality among the South Asian countries.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s also the fact of the teacher shortage, which can be attributed to the low quality of the education, meaning that the education funding isn&#8217;t the only thing worth working on in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw the development in India&#8217;s Education budget, but it&#8217;s still too low compared to the needs of the sector.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clear that the Indian education system needs a reboot. We are waiting for the announcement from Nirmala Sitharaman, The Finance Minister on July 5 regarding the Union Budget.\u00a0 In 2018 Arun Jaitley, Former Finance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[119,461,476,741,743,744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}