The union budget is a continuation of the BJP-led NDA government’s war on the students of the country.
The share of expenditure on education as a percentage of the total central budget is just 3.6 percent, which is 0.2 percent less than the revised estimates for the year 2015-16. The same figure in terms of the percentage of the total GDP, is a meagre 0.5 percent.
Allocations for school education have been cut from Rs 69,794 crores in 2015-16 to Rs 63,826 crores.