Bhubaneswar, June 19 -- As the new Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari will be presenting the first budget of Naveen 5.0 on coming Friday (June 28), the big watch out point in the upcoming full budget 2019-20 is the allocation to the education sector.
A check-out out here looks all the more imperative because, Odisha had fared poorest among the 19 major States in spending on education vis-a-vis the total budgeted expenditure.
As per an analysis of the budget data available, the expenditure on education in proportion to the total budget spending for the period of 2016-19 was around 14 per cent. The expenditure proportion for the successive years {2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 (interim)} was 15.5 per cent, 14.8 per cent and around 15.08 per cen...