Education gets largest share of pie

Delhi | Tuesday | 20th March, 2018

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Similarly, the number of students in the technical institutes has sharply increased to 34,168 in 2016-17, from 23,581 in 2012-13. The survey highlighted that number of schools, student enrolment and student-teacher ratio also went up in the same period. more-inThe Economic Survey of Delhi revealed that the priority sector for the government, which got the biggest share of allocation of 23.54% of the total budget in 2017-18, was education. The total investment in the sector has more than doubled — from ?5,491 crore in 2012-13 to ?11,300 crore in 2017-18. The number of higher education institutes increased from 209 in 2012-13 to 219 in 2017-18 and the number of technical institutes in the national Capital was reported to have gone up from 99 in 2012-13 to 104 in 2016-17..