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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre, states to share RTE expenses in 68:32 ratio

Centre, states to share RTE expenses in 68:32 ratio

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published Published on Jul 30, 2010   modified Modified on Jul 30, 2010

Underpressure from the states, the central government has agreed to bear a higher burden of the cost of implementing the Right to Education.

The Centre’s share of the financial burden will be at 68%, a sharp rise from the sharing pattern of 55:45 in the current year and the proposed 50:50 from 2011-12 .

The new sharing pattern has been approved by the Expenditure Finance Committee on Wednesday. The ministry of human resource development had been pushing for a higher share, 75%, for the Centre as state after state expressed their inability to set aside higher level of funding required to meet the stringent norms of the RTE.

States argued that the RTE made state and local bodies accountable for the implementation, even though neither has the financial capacity. Some states like Uttar Pradesh charged that since the central government takes all the credit for the legislation it should also ensure that funds are available.

The Bordia Committee set up by the ministry in 2009-10 to harmonise the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the RTE also argued for a higher financial burden for the centre. It said that sharing ratio of 55:45 (for the current year) and 50:50 (in 2011-12 ) would be unfavourable to the states as they would have to practically double their allocation.

The committee found that at even at 2009-10 sharing levels of 60:40 for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan as many as 14 states defaulted on their shares. Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa are among the defaulters.

In the meantime, the cost of implementing the RTE had escalated to 2,31,000 crore from the initial estimate of 1,71,000 crore. This meant that in absolute terms, states would have to shoulder a bigger financial burden than previously estimated. A higher share for the centre was however opposed by the Planning Commission. The issue was resolved after HRD minister Kapil Sibal met with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee last weekend.

The Expenditure Finance Committee approved the outlay of 2,31,000 crore as well. This includes the 24,000 crore allocated to the states by the thirteenth Finance Commission. This would make the total amount that the centre and states require to allocate for the implementation of the RTE is to the tune of 2,07,000 crore over the next five years.

The central government’s share of this amount will be at 65% and that of the states 35%. However, when the 24,000 crore awarded by the Finance Commission is taken into account, the centre’s share effectively works out to 68% while that of the states’ 32%.


The Economic Times, 30 July, 2010, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/Centre-states-to-share-RTE-expenses-in-6832-ratio/articleshow/6235330.cms
 

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