Question : Expenditure on Education

(a) the details of Government expenditure on education from 2013-2014 to 2021-22, year-wise, as percentage of total budgetary expenditure and as percentage of total Gross Domestic Product (GDP);

(b) the details of Government expenditure on higher education for the above-said period, year-wise, as percentage of total budgetary expenditure and as percentage of total GDP;

(c) whether the Government has assessed the performance of Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) against the Centre’s target of mobilising Rs. 1,00,000 crore by 2022, and if so, the details thereof including funds raised so far;

(d) whether there has been a decline in the budget allocation for HEFA from 2018 to 2021, and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor;

(e) the details of amount disbursed under Post Matric Scholarship to State Governments in 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22, State-wise; and

(f) whether the funds for Maulana Azad Education Foundation were decreased by 99% in the Budget 2022, and if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor?
ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

(DR. SUBHAS SARKAR)

(a) As per latest available data in Analysis of Budgeted Expenditure on Education, the total Government Expenditure on Education, as percentage of total Budgetary Expenditure and as a percentage of total Gross Domestic Product (GDP), from 2013-14 to 2019-20, year-wise is as below:-

Government Expenditure on Education (in%)

Year 2013-14(Actual) 2014-15(Actual) 2015-16(Actual) 2016-17(Actual) 2017-18(Actual) 2018-19(RE)2019-20
 (BE)
Expenditure 15.46	16.14 16.91 16.07 14.75 14.89	16.07
as % of Budgetary Expenditure
Expenditure 3.84 4.07 4.20 4.24 3.87 4.17 4.39
as % of GDP

 Government Expenditure on Higher Education (in %)

Year 2013-14(Actual) 2014-15(Actual) 2015-16(Actual) 2016-17(Actual) 2017-18(Actual) 2018-19(RE)2019 
 20(BE)
Expenditure 5.05	5.01 4.96 5.44	4.73 4.48	5.37
as % of Budgetary Expenditure
Expenditure 1.25 1.27 1.23 1.44	1.24 1.25	1.47

as % of GDP