The budgetary demands of the School Education and Higher education Department were passed by the State Assembly on Monday after reply of the department minister Dipak Joshi over the discussions it.
Joshi informed the house that that 12 per cent of the total budget of state would be spent on the School Education, Schedule Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) students who would obtain 75 per cent and above marks would be provided laptop and that the Board of Secondary Education has made a mobile app for the convenience of the students.
Joshi said, “Twelve per cent of the total budget of state would be spent on the development of school education, an increase of 33 per cent has been made in the budget of school education. The Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education has made a mobile app for the convenience of the students and SC and ST students who would obtain 75 per cent and above marks would be provided Rs 25, 000 for laptop, earlier this was provided to those students who used to obtain 85 per cent and above marks.”
He said that this year there are provisions of Rs 295.68 crore more in the budget for school education. In 2003, there were 56, 326 primary and 18,801 middle schools whereas now there are 83,890 primary and 30,341 middle schools in the State. 15 residential hostels are been run for urban homeless, orphan and rag picking children in the state in that over 4,000 children are studying. For girls of SC and ST communities living in small settlements 207 Kasturba Gandhi Girls Schools and 324 hostels are been operated and from them 52000 girls are been benefitted. For girls of 9th to 12th standard 201 hostels are operated in that 18,500 girls are living, he added.