The Yogi Adityanath government has made significant provisions in its 20204-2025 budget to strengthen the education sector of Uttar Pradesh.
Emphasis has been given to establishing new universities and government polytechnics under higher and technical education and providing facility of ICT labs in secondary education.
The Yogi government, under basic education, has allocated a budget of Rs 650 crore for providing free sweaters and shoes to over two crore students from classes 1 to 8 in the academic year 2024-25. Additionally, a provision of Rs 350 crores has been made for school bags.
Under basic education, a direct transfer of Rs 1,200 per child is being made to the parent’s accounts via direct benefit transfer (DBT), discontinuing the procurement process for uniforms, sweaters, school bags, shoes and stationery.
Furthermore, the aim is to admit more than two lakh children from economically and socially vulnerable groups in the financial year 2024-25, for which a budget of Rs 255 crore has been allocated.
As part of Operation Kayakalp, a budget of Rs 1,000 crore has been set aside for the financial year 2024-25. In addition, a digital library is being established at gram panchayat and ward level with Rs 300 crore in 2023-2024, for which an additional budgetary provision of Rs 498 crore has been made for fiscal year 2024-2025.
Furthermore, in Vantangiya villages, 144 positions have been created for the operation of 36 primary schools. An allocation of Rs 168 crore has been made for distributing free uniforms to approximately 30 lakh students above the poverty line.
Under secondary education, a provision of Rs 516.64 crore is proposed under the Samagra Shiksha Yojana to equip all the government secondary schools of the state with basic facilities and to make arrangements for smart classes and ICT labs in every government secondary school in 2024-2025.
Additionally, a budget of Rs 200 crore is proposed for the infrastructure facilities in aided non-government secondary schools. Moreover, a provision of Rs 5 crore is proposed for the establishment of new government Sanskrit schools. For the construction of hostels and mini-stadiums in government Sanskrit schools (Rajkiya Sanskrit Vidyalayas), a budget of Rs 10.46 crore is allocated. Furthermore, a provision of Rs 4 crore has been made for the operation of Sainik School in Gorakhpur.
The establishment of each state university, including Maa Vindhyavasini State University in the Vindhyachal Dham division, one state university in the Moradabad region, and Maa Pateshwari State University in the Devi Patan division, is proposed with a provision of Rs 51.20 crore for each university.
To encourage education, a budget of Rs 100 crore has been allocated under the Mukhyamantri Shikshuta Protsahan Yojana.
In addition, for the expansion of basic facilities in the state universities and the completion of new government colleges and buildings under construction, a provision of Rs 30 crore is proposed.
Furthermore, a budget of Rs 55 crore has been allocated for the establishment of new government colleges as well as the completion of buildings under construction in government colleges.
On the other hand, in the field of technical education, training is being provided in 169 diploma-level institutions in the state. The process of construction/setting up is underway for 75 government polytechnics, which will soon be operational under the PPP mode. Currently, training is being provided to students in 1,874 private diploma-level institutions.