Analysis of Budgeted Expenditure on Education 2003-04 to 2005-06

Abstract

This publication, brought out annually, analyses the Budget provisions made by the States/UTs and the Central Ministries for the development of education in their budgets as placed before the Legislatures and Parliament. The present issue analyses the budget documents (Demands for Grants) for the year 2005-06. These documents give information in respect of actual expenditure for the year 2003-04, revised estimates of the expenditure for the year 2004-05 and the budget estimates for the year 2005-06. The information has been used to analyze the trend of the expenditure on education and also bring out the salient features. Total expenditure on education as incurred by the Centre, States and Union Territories have been taken into account. Effort is always made to take precaution against double counting of expenditure because the whole of actual expenditure, both central grant and State’s share, under Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) of Education Department is made by State/UTs and shown as such in their budget documents. This time even for the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the departments other than education department, this principle has been ensured.