Centre disbursed ₹10,443 crore to T.N. under Samagra Shiksha in six years

With a permanent parliamentary committee that recently came into the Government of the Union from immediate

According to the response to a consultation under the Law of Information Law (RTI), the last delivery of funds that Tamil Nadu received from the Government of the Union under the SSA was in the financial year 2023-24- ₹ 1,871 million rupees. Since then, the Government of the Union has retained its participation as ₹ 2,152 million rupees, since Tamil Nadu refused to accept provisions of the National Educational Policy, 2020.

The project approval board has assigned ₹ 3,586 million rupees under the SSA for 2024-2025 to Tamil Nadu.

In 2018, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was renamed and merged with the SSA. For 2018-19, the Government of the Union disbursed ₹ 1,474 million rupees to Tamil Nadu and in 2023-24, the State received ₹ 1,871 million rupees under the scheme-A 26% in five years.

In March of this year, the State decided to support the participation of the center of ₹ 2,152 million rupees, which the government of the Union had with Hero. The funds are used to pay salaries, teacher training programs, reimburse private schools under the Law on the Right to Education and Maintenance and Transport of School Infrastructure, among others.

According to the reports, the high funds in funds were also due to the government of Tamil Nadu that refused to implement the formula of three languages ​​stipulated under the false, and sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) related to the establishment of PM-SHRI).

Earlier this month, a permanent parliamentary committee had observed that the retention of funds under the SSA due to Mou’s discomfort for separate schemes such as the PM-Shri “was not justifiable.” He recommended that the Ministry of Education of the Union immediately release the pending funds under the SSA to the State.

PB Prince Gajendra Babu, general secretary of the State Platform for the Common School System-Tamil Nadu, said: “The State Government and Union have the responsibility of providing free education to children. It is a fundamental right. The government is the rights of right-wing bytes.