EDUCATION AND CULTURE

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE

The following statement shows the revenue received and expenditure incurred by the then District Local Board on education for some years from 1893-94 to 1920-21:-

Year

Receipts

Expenditure

(Rs.)

(Rs.)

1893-94

5,143

45,674

1895-96

4,891

49,129

1900-01

4,035

45,106

1905-06

4.509

50,333

1910-11

59,157

73,615

1915-16

1,27,467

1,19,699

1920-21

2,17,607

2,67,876

The expenditure on primary education is incurred by the Stale Government through grants-in-aid to the Zilla Parishad, and grants to primary teachers' training colleges. The expenditure on primary education during 1958-59 was Rs. 65,23,013 as against Rs. 58,17,896 in 1957-58. The State Government's share in the expenditure incurred in 1961-62 was 77.5 per cent.

The expenditure incurred on the primary education by various agencies for the years 1964-65, 1968-69 and 1972-73 is shown below:-

Year

Expenditure incurred by

Zilla Parishad

Municipal Councils

Municipal Corporation

1964-65

68,84,310

8,69,475

--

1968-69

1,29,04,100

1,45,000

7,90,000

1972-73

2,30,77,800

6,25,000

22,71,000

Private institutions managed almost all the secondary schools in the district. The Government's share in the total expenditure on secondary education is through different schemes of grants for maintenance, salaries, buildings, building sites, equipment, freeships, scholarships, loans, etc., and special concessions to scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward class students. The expenditure on secondary schools during the year 1958-59 was Rs. 19,91,634 as against Rs. 6,38,134 for the previous year. In 1961-62 Government's share in the total expenditure on secondary education was 68.3 per cent.

All the colleges in the district are managed by private institutions and they receive grants for maintenance, dearness allowance and buildings from the Government.

The following statement gives the total institutional expenditure on primary, secondary and higher education per student enrolled in such institutions for the years 1961-62 and 1963-64:-

EXPENDITURE PER STUDENT

Type of institutions

1961-62

1963-64

(Rs.)

(Rs.)

Primary

26.5

38.5

Secondary

108.3

100.3

Higher

313.3

301.3

The proposed expenditure on General Education Programme during the Fifth Plan is given below:-

Item

Fifth Plan proposed outlay
(Rupees in lakhs)

Central Sector

State Sector

Elementary education

62.00

195.63

Secondary education

--

54.95

College education

--

17.13

Teachers' training

--

0.20

Social education

0.90

7.50

Others including sports

--

48.94

 

62.90

324.35

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