RESOURCES (CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES)
fr. Louis xavier, national. Secretary, jesuit educational association of india, sterling road, nungambakkam, madras (9.11.1990)
greater allocation of funds to certain priority areas as envisaged in the paper is a must. These areas are primary education, women's education, education of the tribals and the disadvantaged sections, and improvement of the infrastructural facilities in government/local body and aided schools.
Dr. V.e. Moray, advocate, supreme court, "maduban", g-19/4, dlf qutab enclave phase-I, gurgaon (12.11.1990)
- to raise resources, educational tax should be imposed. Seventyfive per cent of the education budget should be spent on rural education.
Shri shiv samaddar) former steel secretary and member upsc, k-1997 chittaranjan park, new delhi-110019 (5th november, 1990)
- adequate resources - financial., human and material - should be made available for educational programmes. A minimum of 6% of gnp should be allocated for the education sector. The government should identify additional. Resources and modalities to finance educational programmes. An educational cess may be levied. The nationalised banks and other financial institutions like nabard, lic, uti and indigenous trade and industry should be required to
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statutorily contribute a certain amount for the cause of education. The government may seek funds from the world bank, nris and other international agencies.
dr. S.n. Tripathi, secretary, teachers association, ajitmal, etawa (u.p)
the system of capitation fee should be abolished. Six per cent of gnp be allocated for education.
Shri rajpal tyagi, secretary, all india democratic teacher's organisation, central office-88 b.b. Ganguly street, calcutta-700012
- ten per cent of the gnp and 20% of the state budget should be allocated for education.
Dr. Shreekrishna misra, general secretary, madhya pradesh shikshak sangh, state office 69/1, south tatyatope nagar, bhopal.
- Ten per cent of the cental budget and 35% of the state budgets should be spent on education.
Shri pankanj shree, c/o shri ramesh chandra, kalal toli, p.o. Church road, ranchi-834001
- forty per cent of the national budget should be spent on education.
Shri h.k. Thakur, president, vanavasi seva kendra, p.o. Adhaura, distt. Rohtas, -bihar
- six per cent of gnp should be spent on education.
Shri virendra prakash pancholi, 3 daya, irrigation campus machhala magara scheme, udaipur, rajasthan
- at least 30% of state budget and 10% of central budget should be earmarked for education.
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Shri malkhan singh shakyavar, house no. 7, Inside lakshmi gate, jhansi
- education should be nationalised.
Shri anand ram sahu, publicity secretary, sewa stambh, distt. Branch, raipur, shiv chowk, dr. Rajendra nagar. P.o. Ravigram raipur, m.p.
- Education should be nationalised.
Dr. Rajendra kumar awasthi, secretary, teachers' association, janta college, bakewar, itawa
- privatisation of higher education should not be allowed. The system of capitation fee should be abolished.
- Six per cent of plan outlay should be earmarked for education.
Dr. P.c. Bansal, b-58, inder puri, new delhi (8th november, 1990)
- government alone cannot meet all expenses on universalisation of elementary education. It can only provide some basic facilities. The rest will. Have to come from the community. New modes of raising resources are to be explored. The fee structure for post secondary education could also be revised.
Shri n.r. Hiremath, ex-dy. Director of public instruction, govt. Of karnataka, and principal, sri sarvajana college of education, bangalore (31st october, 1990)
- as recommended at least 6% of the gnp should be set aside for education. Primacy in allocation of funds should be for primary education. Next priority should go to secondary education. At this stage, the education should be self-supporting partly.
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University education should be supported by private agencies and by those who are going to employ the university graduates in commerce, administration, communication, defence, etc.
Shri om shrivastava, astha sansthan, 109 kharol colony, udaipur, rajasthan (27th october, 1990)
- the suggestion to have allocations for education multi- sectorally is in line with the whole concept of organic link of education to the larger sociocultural, economic and political context.
Shri d.r. Ghorpade, journalist, miraj 416410
- fee should be charged from those who can afford to pay
shri k. Ramamoorthy, additional chief secretary, government of gujarat, education department, sardar bhawan, sachivalaya, gandhinagar-382010 (26th october, 1990)
- the idea of pitching the education budget to a percentage has no relevance when it is possible for government to fix certain norms for specific education services. Individual norms for levels of expenditure per student at the various stages be laid-down.
- The problem of funds for elementary education in particular, commensurate with the actual. Needs can be solved only if the budget for elementary education is made as a charge on the consolidated fund so that limited education budget does not get affected by sectoral percentages.
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Shri anil biswas, editor, ganashkti, muzaffar ahmad bhawan, 31, alimuddin street, calcutta-700016 (27th october, 1990)
- the suggestions to enhance the fee structure for higher education, to arrange for student loan facilities and alternatively to impose graduate taxes on the users are likely to lead-to privatisation of higher education which will not be in the interest of education. Commercialisation of education cannot be encouraged.
- Expenditure on education should be treated as an investment. The rate of social return from such expenditure is really very high.
- There have been serious distortions in the allocation of resources between elementary and higher education. During the plan periods, allocation for elementary education declined from 56% to 29% whereas for university and general education the percentage went up from 18 to 44. It should also be noted that even in the higher education sector the bulk of the funds is going to the central universities and the state universities are given step motherly treatment. This distortion should be corrected.
- Education should be brought back to the state list.
Prof. Krishnaji, chairman, indian institution of maharishi vedic science and technology, maharishi nagar 201 304 (1st november 1990)
- unless the government decided to raise allocation of funds for the development of education to at least 6 per cent of gnp, it would be futile to carry on the exercise by the committee.
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Mrs. Rajam p.r.s. Pillay, director, balavikas institute, trivandrum- 695005
- a national. Fund for education should be set up and every parent should be asked to pay one rupee per child per month.
Shri p.n. Panicker, state resource centre, kanfed, saksharatha bhavan, trivandrum, (panel discussion held at thiruvananthapuram on 1st november, 1990)
- at least 10 per cent of the gnp should be earmarked for education. Besides state governments, corporations, municipalities and panchayats must be able to provide funds for running the educational institutions.
Bangalore city south district secondary schools head master's and pre- university college principal's association, kalasipalayam, bangalore- 560002 (recommendations made in a special committee meeting held on 11.10.90)
- a minimum of 6% gnp should be allocated to education.
University of delhi and indian university association for continuing education (suggestions made in one day discussion held in new delhi on 30th october, 1990)
- while percentage allocation of resources for education had been declining after the first five year plan, in substantiave terms desire to have six percent of gnp for education amounted to asking for more than rs. 20,000/- Crores in the eighth five year plan. The committee should indicate the timeframe within which six percent resources could be had for education.
- At present, 78 percent of the funds come from the government: the community resources accounted for only 22 percent of resources for education. The committee should devote some thought to the entire
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question of resource raising and consider avenues like raising tuition fees, attracting endowment, community contributions, etc.
- The south canara experiment of community funding of schools at the time of their inception could be tried in other parts of the country.
Workshop organised by the university of bombay at bombay on 26th september, 1990
- the share of education be raised to 6% of gnp immediately and progressively to at least 7.5% by the end of this decade. Fees should be raised to meet a major portion of the cost. It could be linked to the "ability to pay". Faculty variation could also be introduced. A nominal on the fee be introduced on the basis of the age of the college. Those who cannot pay the increased fees may be given deferred payment facilities in the form of vouchers/ coupons, loans or insurance policy. The educated people who settle and earn abroad for a period of five years be asked to pay the cost of their education.
Dr. S. Muthukumaran, vice-chancellor, bharathidasan, university, tiruchirapalli, tamil nadu.
- Education should be restored to the state list. The centre's role should be specified in clear terms. It should 'coordinate' but not control.
- While it is the constitutional obligation to provide for free and compulsory education up to the secondary level, there is no constitutional compulsion for subsidising the tertiary education of
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all students irrespective of their economic conditions. To those students who can afford to pay, the subsidy and concessions need not be doled out. The fee structure should be rationalised. The students may be provided with scholarships or loans depending upon their social and/or economic status.
seminar organised. By institute of education and culture, hyderabad, the university of hyderabad and the osmania university, hyderabad at the central. -Institute of english and foreign languages, hyderabad on 20th-21st october, 1990
- the strategies to augment resources and distribution of the same among different sectors have to be carefully planned and worked out for short-term and long-term ends. Short-term measures would call for a reallocation of resources to the various sectors in the light of their priorities. The long term measures would necessitate a thorough review of economic and social. Policies. School. Education in its entirety should be funded by the government. The scholarship policy should take care of scs/sts/women/bcs as also obcs. Studies in the field reveal. That there is a dire need to streamline the existing scholarship policy as well as its implementation. The suggestion to raise fee structure in higher education will amount to denial of access to education to weaker sections.
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