Gujarat Presents Last Budget Before Assembly Elections; Highest Allocation Made For Education- Education News
Gujarat Finance Minister Kanu Desai on Thursday presented the BJP government’s last budget before the Assembly elections, choosing to impose no new taxes and making the highest allocation for education.
The budget for the financial year 2022-23 proposed an outlay of Rs 2,43,965 crore, which is nearly Rs 17,000 crore more than the previous year. It estimated overall surplus of Rs 560.09 crore. The government allocated the highest Rs 34,884 crore for the education sector.
Desai said that to promote medical education and research, the state government will establish a medical university. The budget proposed an allocation of Rs 937 crore to construct 10,000 new classrooms in existing primary and secondary schools run by the government. On the lines of Military Schools run by the Centre, the state government will start “Raksha Shakti Schools” for students of standard 6th to 12th with “social participation,” said Desai, adding that Rs 5 crore has been allotted in this budget for the scheme.
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