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Budget Briefs: Samagra Shiksha got 25% more, but only 51% of allocation utilized - Mridusmita Bordoloi, Avani Kapur, Sidharth Santhosh

Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research At the start of the Financial Year (FY) 2022-23, GoI allocated the highest budget for Samagra Shiksha since its inception at Rs. 37,383 crore Budget Estimates (BEs). This was 25 percent higher than the Revised Estimates (REs) for FY 2021-22. An additional Rs. 447 crore was sought through the supplementary budget in December 2022, bringing the revised allocations to Rs. 37,831 crore. The pace of GoI...

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Budget Briefs: FY 2022-23 PM Awas allocation doubled, 77% houses completed - Neeha Susan Jacob, Anwesha Mallick, Avani Kapur

Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research In Financial Year (FY) 2022-23, Government of India (GoI) allocated Rs 20,000 crore Budget Estimates (BEs) for the PM Awaas Yojana - Gramin, slightly lesser than the previous year’s Revised Estimates (REs). With an additional amount of Rs. 28,422 crore allocated as supplementary budget in December 2022, revised allocations stand at Rs 48,422 crore. This is more than double the previous year’s REs. In the first...

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Budget Briefs: Food Subsidy in FY 2022-23 lower by 28%, 12.3 crore excluded - Jenny Susan John, Avani Kapur, Ria Kasliwal

Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research Budget 2023-24 will be unveiled on February 1. As part of laying the context this brief, prepared by the Accountability Initiative, examines the allocation and expenditure trends for India's food subsidy.    At the start of the current Financial Year (FY) 2022-23, Government of India allocations for Food Subsidy stood at Rs. 2,06,831 crore, which was 28 percent lower than the previous year's Revised Estimates (REs)....

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ST enrolments in higher education rise by 47%, OBC enrolment by 31%: Government survey

The growth in enrolments of Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in higher education between 2014-15 and 2020-21 has been 47%, while OBC enrolments have increased by 31.67% in the same period. These are some of the key findings of the All India Survey on Higher Education 2020-21 (AISHE) conducted by the Ministry of Education. Other AISHE findings include: * Enrolment of ST students has increased to 24.1 lakh in 2020-21 from 21.6...

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How State Family Database Projects Pose Dangers Of In-Depth Citizen Profiling And Exclusion - Sarasvati NT

Medianama The Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) floated a second tender in December 2022 for implementation and maintenance of a Master Data Management and de- duplication tool for a State Family Database (SFDB) project. The objective is to assign the ‘Makkal ID’— a unique identification number already allotted to the state’s seven crore residents— to different records across departments. The SFDB is projected to be the “single source of truth” of all...

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