more-in The 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 survey highlighted that number of schools, student enrolment and student-teacher ratio also went up in the same period. The total number of schools in Delhi increased from 5,155 in 2012-13 to 5,772 in 2016-17, and the number of students enrolled in the schools increased from 42.68 lakh in 2012-13 to 44.43 lakh in 2016-17, the survey said. The student-teacher ratio also bettered itself to 30:1. The survey showed that construction of 19 new school buildings has been completed and around 6,787 additional classrooms have been made functional in various existing schools. The survey stated that an integrated approach was adopted for capacity building by the SCERT, whereby apart from innovative in-house capacity building programmes, 89 heads of schools were given exposure to various national and international institutions of repute. The government has also started sports coaching and training through private sports academies. 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. Similarly, the number of students in the technical institutes has sharply increased to 34,168 in 2016-17, from 23,581 in 2012-13.

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