POLICY BRIEF - Public Expenditure on School Education and

Since Welfare of these tea garden workers is tea garden areas were the special focus one of the important aspects of the areas in the study, we defined the tea development programmes in the state. [...] unwritten and the adequacy of housing and sanitation facilities, the To understand the public expenditure studies looking into the budget for on education in Assam, especially in education of the state Government and the tea garden areas, the budgets of the quality of educational provisions different departments with some in tea garden area as compared to the provisioning for the school education. [...] schools) of the total schools belonged The Grant in Aid to the aided schools to tea garden areas, with 6 schools in the form of salary and non-salary under the tea garden management and accounted form 36% of the total rest 41% (19 schools) to non-tea garden expenditure on education. [...] School grants: The analysis of infrastructure There is not much difference including the maintenance and between the grants received by the usability shows that the situation in government and aided schools the aided schools is almost alarming while the tea management schools and calls for immediate action. [...] started the process of merging the elementary education and secondary Aided schools: These schools, though education departments.3 The two not fully compliant, are better than separate directorates for elementary government schools in being and secondary education are to be compliant to the PTR and teacher qualification norms of the RTE.