In order to make Education accessible to everyone in Uttar Pradesh, as well as to improve its quality and link it with EMPLOYMENT, the Yogi Adityanath government will spend more than Rs 750 crore on basic, secondary and higher education in the next three months.
The government has prepared an action plan in this regard.
This amount will be spent on both new and already existing programmes in each of these three departments. Many of these programmes are sponsored by the Centre, and funds will be spent on them after the Central government releases the budget installment and the gives its Consent.
As per the information received, the Basic Education department has prepared an action plan for budget expenditure of Rs 121 crore on various schemes, while the Higher Education department has presented an action plan for spending more than Rs 20 crore. On the other hand, the Secondary Education department has estimated an expenditure of more than Rs 600 crore on the basis of the budget.
It may be mentioned that in his second term, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given priority to the process of setting targets and achieving them within a given timeframe. With the beginning of the new financial year, once again all the departments have been instructed to work on a three-month action plan.
The Secondary Education department will receive a budget of Rs 390 crore under the PM School for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme. This is a centrally sponsored scheme and the amount will be spent through the approved action plan and allocated budget by the Ministry of School Education and Literacy.
Apart from this, a budget of Rs 5 crore has been allocated to the department to reimburse the tuition fees of the second daughter of a parent studying in self-financed schools. The department will allocate Rs 1.39 crore for April on the basis of information provided by the districts after approval of the funds by the government.
There is a budgetary provision of Rs 237 crore for children and adolescents libraries and digital Infrastructure, on which the department has said that the first installment of the Centre is likely to be received in June 2023, after which the physical and financial targets of the scheme will be achieved with the approval of the government.
Through the skill hub, the government will provide Vocational Education to school drop-outs and conduct short-term certification courses for skill training after school and on weekly holidays. On the other hand, an amount of Rs 2 crore will be spent on quality promotion of higher education.
A total of Rs 10 crore will be spent on Chief Minister’s Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme, Rs 5 crore on the digital library at the ward level and Rs 1 crore will be spent on a skill hub to provide employment-oriented education. Overall, the Higher Education department will spend Rs 20.1 crore in the next three months.