Public Expenditure on Education in India

Recent Trends

Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to highlight the trends of public expenditure on education. The paper explore the trends in public expenditure incurred by State and Central government, trends in Planned and Non planned expenditure, revenue and Capital expenditure and trends in intra sect oral allocation of public expenditure. Findings shows that percentage share of State government expenditure in total expenditure on education has declined and percentage share of central government has increased. Some Trends has also been found in Planned and Non planned expenditure, share of former has increased and of later has declined. No major trends have been found on Revenue and capital account expenditure. Capital account expenditure is meager amount of the total expenditure. Some important trends have been found in inter sect- oral allocation of public expenditure, the percentage share of elementary and primary education in total public spending on education has declined and percentage share of technical and higher education has increased significantly.