India: Assam budget Sonowal govt’s focus on healthcare, education

Asia/India/29 de Julio de 2016/Autor: Samudra Gupta Kashyap/Fuente: The Indian Express

RESUMEN:  El Ministro de Hacienda del Estado, Himanta Biswa Sarma dijo  que el sector de la educación, junto con el deporte, el arte y la cultura obtendría el 20 por ciento de las asignaciones presupuestarias a partir del 26 por ciento para los servicios generales, el sector del desarrollo agrícola y rural obtendría el 10 por ciento .  En el frente de la educación, el presupuesto prevé el establecimiento de otras tres facultades de medicina (en Nagaon, Dhubri y Lakhimpur) bajo régimen de patrocinio central, además de completar la construcción de uno de cada uno en Kokrajhar y Diphu. Mientras que un Instituto Indio de Ayurveda se establecería en Raha, que también anunció la creación de tres nuevas universidades y 21 nuevos institutos politécnicos, y haciendo tres universidades de ingeniería (Karimganj, Golaghat y Dhemaji) completamente funcional en el ejercicio en curso. El presupuesto también propone convertir las escuelas en función del género los co-educativos, mientras que los estudiantes de la clase IX y X de las escuelas del gobierno obtendrían libros de texto gratuitos a partir del próximo año académico. Haciendo hincapié en la mejora de la enseñanza primaria y la escuela, Sarma dijo que mientras que ocho nuevos institutos del distrito de formación del profesorado se establecerían, 17.000 maestros TET serían designados antes de abril de 2017. En total, 297 escuelas primarias superiores, por otra parte serían cubiertos bajo por ordenador programa de aprendizaje asistido, agregó.

Education, agriculture and healthcare got the maximum focus, while several items including candles, kerosene stoves, packaged drinking water, cinema tickets, LED bulbs and tubes, citronella oil and feeding bottles would become cheaper, as the BJP-led government in Assam tabled its first budget, of Rs 78,253.36 crore, that showed an overall deficit of over Rs 2880 crores.

Placing the budget, state finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said while the education sector along with sports, art and culture would get 20 per cent of the budget allocations after 26 per cent for general services, the agriculture and rural development sector would get 10 per cent. Sector-wise allocation of the remaining sum will be as follows: water supply, sanitation, housing and urban development (8%), transport (6%), social welfare and nutrition (5%), irrigation and flood control (5%), and others (9%), besides public debt (6%).

On the education front, the budget envisaged establishing three more medical colleges (in Nagaon, Dhubri and Lakhimpur) under centrally sponsored scheme, besides completing construction of one each at Kokrajhar and Diphu. While an All India Institute of Ayurveda would be set up at Raha, he also announced setting up three new universities and 21 new polytechnic institutes, and making three engineering colleges (Karimganj, Golaghat and Dhemaji) fully functional in the current financial year.

The budget also proposed converting gender-specific schools to co-educational ones, while students of Class IX and X of government schools would get free textbooks from the next academic year. Laying stress on improving primary and school education, Sarma said that while eight new district institutes for teacher education would be set up, 17,000 TET teachers would be appointed by April 2017. Altogether 297 upper primary schools on the other hand would be covered under computer-aided learning programme, he added.

While the BJP-led government had promised social security during the recent assembly elections, Sarma announced setting up women’s cells in 63 police stations, appointing 4,000 police personnel, providing cyber crime detection facilities and setting up citizens’ committees in all the 345 police stations.

On the agriculture front, Sarma announced I-cards to farmers, installation of 61,000 shallow tube-wells, promoting organic farming, covering 1.50 lakh fishermen under group insurance scheme, setting up 40 new milk cooperatives and 244 rural godowns, among others.

Fuente: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/assam-budget-sonowal-govts-focus-on-healthcare-education-2937067/