Story in numbers: Spending on education in four years of Modi government

Per-student allocation to the programme increased by 17% in 2016-17 to Rs 6,350 from Rs 5,424 in 2015-16

Tightening the education purse strings

The Narendra Modi government has been reducing spending on education (budget estimates) — it dropped from one per cent of the country’s income in the government’s first Budget in 2014-15 to 0.62 per cent in 2017-18. Its share in the Budget too has been slashed from 6.15 per cent to 3.7 per cent.

The share of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a national programme for universal elementary education, in the total allocation dropped to 29 per cent in 2017-18 from 31 per cent in 2016-17, which was two per cent less than the previous year, as per an analysis