[OLPC India] Per-child spending in Karnataka

[K. K. Subramaniam]

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