Lok Sabha Question No. 108 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-17
Subject: Funds Spent on Kendriya Vidyalayas
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: VISHNU DAYAL RAM

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 108 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17.07.2017

## FUNDS SPENT ON KENDRIYA VIDYALAYAS

## † 108. SHRI VISHNU DAYAL RAM:

Will  the  Minister  of  HUMAN  RESOURCE  DEVELOPMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a) whether  it  is  a  fact  that  more  than  Rs.  5500  crore  are  spent  on  running Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas in the country;
- (b) if so, the average amount spent per annum for running each school;
- (c) whether  the  Government  is  creating  special  category  schools  by  providing assistance to these schools and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) whether the Government proposes to spend the said amount for increasing manpower, improving and strengthening infrastructure in the existing Government schools to the desired level and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

- (a)  &  (b):  The  details  of  the  grants  released  by  the  Government  to  the  Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) during the year 2016-17 and the average expenditure per school based on actual expenditure during 2016-17 are as under:-

## (Rs. in crores)

| Name of Organization   |   Allocation made during 2016-17 | Average expenditure per school based on 2016-17 expenditure   |
|------------------------|----------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| KVS                    |                          3987.25 | 3.91                                                          |
| NVS                    |                          2619.57 | 3.49                                                          |
| Total :                |                          6606.82 | -                                                             |

- (c) The Kendriya Vidyalaya (KVs) are opened primarily to cater to the educational needs  of  the  children  of  transferable  Central  Government  employees  including Defence  and  Para-Military  personnel  by  providing  a  common  programme  of education  and  Jawahar  Navodaya  Vidyalaya  (JNVs)  are  established  with  the

objective  of  providing  good  quality  modern  education  to  the  talented  children, predominantly from the rural areas without regard to their family's socio-economic condition. (d) Under the Centrally  Sponsored  Schemes of  Sarva  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (SSA), the  Government  is  already  extending  support  through  a  variety  of  interventions, including inter-alia, opening of new schools, construction of schools and additional classrooms,  toilets  and  drinking  water,  provisioning  for  teachers,  periodic  teacher training  and  academic  resource support, textbooks and support for learning achievement. In  addition,  the  government  also  provides  assistance  under  the  Centrally

Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA). The RMSA scheme provides for financial assistance for classrooms, science laboratory, library, computer room, art/craft/culture  room,  toilets,  drinking  water  facilities  etc.  in  new  / upgraded  and  existing  secondary  schools.  Further,  salary  of  teachers,  in  service teacher training,  training  of  Master  Trainers  and  Key  Resource  Persons,  induction training  of  teachers,  leadership  training  of  Headmasters  /  Principals  and  State Resource  Groups  (SRGs),  ICT  scheme  etc.  are  also  supported  for  improving standards of secondary education.

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