Focus on Education Sector for Telangana Budget 2022–23

Some Trends in Education Expenditure in Telangana: The budget estimates (BE) for expenditure on Education, Sports, Culture and Arts was Rs 13,49,827.30 lakhs — which was 5.9% of the total budgetary expenditure by the Telangana Government (Fig 1). However, as can be seen from Fig. 1, the share of expenditure on education is consistently lower than the national average. Furthermore, the gap between the respective shares only diverged from 2014–15 to 2021–22. Figure 1 Source: Various rounds of State Finances: Study of Budgets published by RBI. (Note: The figures for 2020–21 and 2021–22 are based on revised (RE) and budget estimates respectively) Education’s share in the aggregate state govern ...