[OLPC India] Per-child spending in Karnataka - more about feeding than education

[Saurabh Adhikari]

looks like the indian education is more about feeding the children than education..

priorities upside down!




Sincerely,

S Adhikari


 

> From: subbukk at gmail.com
> To: india at lists.laptop.org
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:43:21 +0530
> Subject: [OLPC India] Per-child spending in Karnataka
> 
> FYI,
> 
> Karnataka State's Education Department has published their budget at
> http://www.schooleducation.kar.nic.in/PlanningInfo/PerformanceBudger08-09_ENGLISH.pdf
> 
> I used their data on page 5 to compute per-child spending on items directly 
> related to learning:
> 
> INR 550 per year for meals
> INR 105 per year for notebooks and school bags
> INR 81 per year for textbooks
> INR 736 total
> 
> Notebooks are rationed too. A child in 1-5th year gets only three notebooks, 
> 6-7 gets four and 8-10th gets five per year.
> 
> We have a long way to go :-(,
> Subbu
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