‘Budget allocation for education must be increased to 15%’

Expressing interest implicit the allocation of conscionable 8.2% of the Budget to the acquisition sector, the Telangana Save Education Committee has urged the State authorities to instrumentality up a treatment connected acquisition priorities successful the ongoing Assembly league and summation the allocation to astatine slightest 15%.

Committee leaders K. Chakradhar Rao, G. Haragopal and K. Lakshmi Narayana said the existent allocation falls good abbreviated of the 20% demanded by the committee arsenic good arsenic assorted student, teacher and lecturer unions, to fortify the authorities acquisition system.

The committee besides questioned the government’s commitment, pointing retired that portion it announced plans to grow pre-primary acquisition to 2,500 schools, nary funds person been allocated for the initiative. It further noted that the Budget fails to code cardinal issues specified arsenic mediocre infrastructure successful authorities schools, a terrible shortage of teachers and the deficiency of teacher grooming for pre-primary educators.

In the higher acquisition sector, the committee termed the allocations grossly inadequate. It highlighted that Kakatiya University was allotted ₹40 crore, Mahatma Gandhi University and Palamuru University ₹35 crore each, and Telangana University ₹25 crore — acold beneath the ₹500 crore per assemblage deemed indispensable for wide development.

The committee besides noted that of the ₹617 crore allocated for higher acquisition improvement successful 2024-25, lone ₹46 crore, oregon little than 7%, has been spent. It urged the authorities to sermon the priorities of school, university, and method acquisition successful the Assembly and summation the allocation to astatine slightest 15%.