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Budget of Education Department		Primary	Secondary Education	Higher Education
	1966-67	86.97	168.03	22.45
	1999-2000	21726.63	64491.73	19724.91
%age of Budgeted Expenditure on Education to total budget	India 19.60		Haryana 12.95
%age of State GDP on Education	Expenditure on education 2.1% ( Planning Commission Recommends 6%)
%age of State GDP on	96-97 97-98 Primary Education 0.6% 0.6% Secondary Education 1.2% 1.2% Higher Education 0.3% 0.3%
%age of Expenditure on Development , Non-Development Activities	Salary Development Construction Work		1998-99 1999-2000 98.00% 98.04% 1.58% 1.55% 0.42% 0.41%
Inter Department GDP Share of Budget (1997-98)	Primary Education Secondary Education Higher Education 0.60% 1.20% 0.30%
Inter Department Share of Budget in %age(1998-99)	Primary Education Secondary Education Higher Education 24.20% 64.70% 11.10%

Though the budgetary allocation for education has increased over the years yet a major portion of the allocation is expended on salaries leaving small sums for developmental and capital works. The national average of the budgeted expenditure to the total budget is 19.6% on education whereas the State percentage is 12.95% only which is among the lowest in the country. The Planning Commission has recommended 6% of the State GDP to be spent on education whereas the present State allocation is only 2.1% (97-98) of the State GDP. Hence, the need to increase allocation for education and to rectify inter-departmental imbalances.

1. The State Govt. shall accord topmost priority to Universalisation of Elementary Education and take all necessary steps to achieve this objective by the year 2005.

2. The State Govt. shall support the endeavour of Govt. of India to declare elementary education a fundamental right of the child besides amendments in Article 51 of the Constitution enjoining upon the parents the fundamental duty of sending their children to schools.

3. The State shall strive towards achieving a substantial increase in both public and private investments in education so that the public investment goes upto 6% of GDP by the year 2010 A.D. and the total investment including private investment goes upto 10% of the GDP in the same period.

4. The State Govt. shall take effective steps to encourage transfer of elementary educational institution to the PRIs and the Urban Local Bodies in a bid to empower the community and other stake holders.

5. The State shall elicit active participation of Village Education Committees , Mother Teacher Associations, Parent Teacher Associations in management of education.

6. The State shall promote NGOs to play a key role in the qualitative and quantitative expansion of education.

7. The State shall focus on reducing disparities based on gender, region, class, category including children of special focus groups etc. Based on the principle of equality and social justice, it will aim at creating an appropriate environment which allows and encourages children including girls, special and challenged children to develop their full potential and contribute to the nation's growth.

8. Recognising the central role of teachers in education, the State reposes its full faith and trust in teachers and will support them in improving their knowledge and skills in pedagogy and child- oriented learning.

With a view to keeping abreast the teachers with the latest developments in education and to upgrade their professional skills at regular intervals, the existing training programmes will be further strengthened besides, introducing pre-induction training for both school and college teachers.

9. The State shall endeavour to reorient the educational system so as to make it holistic, qualitative, socially and economically productive and relevant to the fast changing socio- economic environment. Emphasis would be laid on acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and values and their application to real life situations.