State govt doesn’t have money to provide free education
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- Tuesday, 08 May 2012 18:57
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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
The Gujarat government has claimed in an affidavit submitted before the High Court that it does not have the money to provide free education to children from economically weaker sections. The govt was responding to the details asked by the HC in response to a petition filed before it.
Government said it spends Rs 7,816 crore every year on primary education in the state, which has a literacy rate of 79 per cent. The female literacy rate in the state is 57 per cent.The government also mentioned that there are 41,000 primary schools in the state and there are 19,000 villages with one school each.Â
Last week the HC had asked the principal secretaries of education and finance departments to file separate affidavits explaining the steps the state government had taken for providing free and compulsory education to children aged between 6 and 14 years. The HC was hearing a petition challenging the government circular dated September 9, 1999 mentioning that the schools receiving grant in the urban areas should recover 300 per cent more fees from the poor students. The govt circular was quashed by a single judge bench then. Later the order was challenged by the state govt.
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