Budget 2022: Education expenditure set to cross Rs 1 trillion in 2022-23

The government has proposed one channel per class in all vernaculars, taking the number of channels from 12 to 200

Although the government had announced that it would spend Rs 93,000 crore towards education last year, the revised estimates show a decline in spending to Rs 88,002 crore. However, for the first time, budgeted expenditure on education is set to cross Rs 1 trillion. The Budget estimates for 2022-23 show that the government will spend Rs 104,278 crore in the coming fiscal on education.

Given the havoc wreaked by the pandemic, Annual School Education Report has not been able to track the students' learning outcomes for the last two years. However, relying on a new methodology, the nationwide survey has been