Unable to spend, Kerala allocates less for education in Budget 2019

Kerala, which is known for investment in education, is cutting outlays on education

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac presented the state Budget 2019-20 in the Assembly last month and revealed a new trend – that even a progressive state like Kerala in terms of education expenditure was looking to spend less.

The government earmarked 15 per cent of the Budget for education in 2019-20; it allocated 17.5 per cent for this purpose in 2017-18.

This could be because the state allocated more (16.3 per cent) than it could spend (16.1 per cent) in 2018-19. But why is the state government allotting money but not succeeding in spending it? But Kerala is still better