The summary analyzes the state budget of Andhra Pradesh for 2009-2010 from the perspective of children's issues. Some key points: 1) The budget allocation for children's sectors like education, health and protection has either remained the same or decreased from the previous year, despite children accounting for 41% of the state's population. 2) No new schemes were introduced for children and allocations for existing schemes were not increased adequately. 3) The share of the children's budget in the total state budget declined to 16.52% compared to 17.46% in the previous revised budget. 4) Sectors like health and protection continued to receive low priority in terms of resource allocation compared to

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“As our five years term is drawing to a close, we will do well to make an honest appraisal of our
performance vis-à-vis our promises. In any country, more so, in developing countries like ours,
budgets play a very crucial role in allocating scarce resources among many competing demands to
eventually enhance the human development index and per capita income…The ultimate objective of
good governance is to empower every section of the population so that they can lead a decent life…I
am happy that we have not only delivered on all the promises that we made in our successive policy
documents presented in the Governors’ addresses, but have also met all the targets set out in the
National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP)…”
(Extract from Budget Speech 2009-2010, by Mr.K. Rosaiah, Minister for Finance, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh)
Introduction
Andhra Pradesh is the state with child population that constitutes 7% of India’s children. As per the
figure by Census 2001, almost forty one percent (3.1 crore) of total state’s population are children
below 18 years of age whereas the estimated number of children in school-going age group(6-15
years) revealed by Director of School Education, Govt. of AP, is 1.56 crore. About 102 lakh
children are in the age group of 0-6 years who needs special child care and protection.
As mentioned in the budget speech, the last “five years have been the most eventful years in the
growth story of our State…”. Due to the various initiatives taken by the Government in the last 5
years, the State have emerged as one of the fastest growing States in the Country, with the economic
growth registering 5.53% in 2008-09 over the GSDP of 2007-08. The State has achieved high
growth rate which is the result of higher growth rates in all the three sectors viz., Agriculture,
Industry and Services. Beside the achievements of the states, we can not deny the lacunae still
prevailing in the state in many other areas. It therefore is utmost important to judge the growth of
any state in the light of the situation of its children as it is a well-known fact that the future and
strength of a State lies in a healthy, protected, educated and well-developed child population that will
grow up to be productive citizens.
In line with the established tradition of not presenting the full budget before elections, a Vote on
Account for the year 2009-10 was presented by the Minister of Finance, Mr.K. Rosaiah to Andhra
Pradesh State Legislature on 5th February 2009. “…Government wanted to go for Vote-on-Account budget to
keep enough money at its disposal to allow it to run the administration of the State…”-said Rosaiah (Budget
Speech-Vote on Account, 2009-10). However, the full fledged state budget for the year 2009-2010
was presented on July 24, 2009.
Contrary to the rosy picture projected by the Andhra
Pradesh government about the state’s growth story in
last five years, the state is still facing slowdown across
sectors and its children are met with the same fate.
Our children still suffers from poor nutrition,
inadequate sanitation, health and education facilities.
The present budget does not show any hope for its
children because first of all, there is hardly any new
scheme introduced neither allocations for important
schemes has stepped up to the requirements. Rather to find ways to overcome hardships of global
Indicating at the hardships the state
would go through in the days to come,
Rosaiah said, "As GSDP has a direct
bearing on the revenues, there is likely to
be a substantial shortfall in revenue
receipts and capital receipts during 2008-
09...”

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slowdown, children issues are almost bypassed
in the state budget. In the backdrop of lakhs of
children being out of school/dropouts, abysmal
quality of education, huge infrastructural gap in
schools, poor sanitation facilities, increased
disease burden especially among children etc.,
our finance minister has emphasized on
economic growth thus to step up investments
on manufacturing sectors, irrigation, housing
and other infrastructure projects. Welfare
programmes that benefits children have not
received much attention apart from a few
mentions, as evident from his speech. The only
two welfare programmes mentioned intended to poor families which can indirectly benefit children
are i) ‘White Ration Card Scheme’ of the public distribution system to provided rice at Rs.2/- per kg,
pulses at Rs.30/- per kg, vegetable oil at Rs.35/- per kg and ii) Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health
Insurance Scheme started last year to take care of health care expenses upto Rs.2 lakhs per annum of
families below poverty line.
KEY OBSERVATIONS FROM THE STATE BUDGET 2009-2010
The present document is therefore an attempt to analyse what the government is offering to our
children this year. We have taken the age of children as 18, which will enables us to have a broader
scope for including many programmes and schemes pertaining to children.
According to the calculations by M V Foundation, which has been analysing state budgets from a
child rights perspective since the year 2002, the Budget for Children(BfC) in child specific sectors
(Education, Health, Development & Protection) for the current fiscal year is Rs. 17374.06 Crore. In
other words, the amount of money allocated to various children’s programmes is 16.52 per cent of
the record Rs 105143.77 crore of total expenditure budgeted in the state for 2009-10. That means
16.52% of the total state budget has been kept for the 41% of the total population
o NO new schemes for children in any
sector except re-modeling of older
scheme under Education.
o Allocation for existing schemes not
stepped up to requirements.
o Education sector shows decrease in
allocation from last year.
o Child Health & Child Protection
sectors have met with the same fate
although attention is given to
Development sector.
Table 1 : Share of Children in AP State Budget (Rs. Crore)
Sectors
2006-07
(BE)
2006-07
(RE)
2007-08
(BE)
2007-08
(RE)
2008-09
(BE)
2008-09
(RE)
2009-2010
(BE)
Child Education 7515.1682 7470.1279 8952.5158 9592.6058 12775.4941 12742.6461 12344.6697
Child Health 117.1799 115.5832 146.9427 144.7337
116.4430 112.8032 118.3770
Child Development 1144.0933 1144.062 1535.0025 1534.874 2917.8018 2906.3375 4797.1653
Child Protection 90.968 90.5987 96.5177 95.6531 107.5556 108.7698 113.8493
Total Child Budget 8867.4094 8820.3718 10725.8867 11367.8666 15917.2945 15870.5566 17374.0613
State Budget 63527.741 61552.963 80996.6 79598.94 100436.5490 90891.0927 105143.7740
% Share for Children
In State Budget
13.95 14.33 13.24 14.28 15.85 17.46 16.52
Source : Budget Estimates, 2009-2010, All relevant Dept.

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• Increase in allocation(BE) on child specific sectors have shown an increase of only 9.5%
from the last revised allocation (RE, 2008-09). State budget on the other hand have
increased by 15.7% from RE 2008-09. In case of the share of Budget for Children (BfC) in
total state budget, it is interesting to see that children’s share in RE 2008-09, though
increased from initial budget allocation BE 2008-09 (from 15.85 per cent to 17.46 per cent),
it has reduced in current fiscal year to 16.52 per cent. In fact, share of children in state
revised budget (RE), as evident from Table 1, has been more than the share in BE in all the
years which further declined in next year’s BE.
• As far as the promises made in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP), the expenditure
on Health and Education should be 3 percent and 6 percent of GDP respectively to fulfil
the minimum requirement in these two sectors. In the absence of state specific
recommendations on how much of GSDP should be spent on public education and public
health, let us take this NCMP promises to analyse the share of spending on these two sectors
in state’s income. The state's GSDP in the year ended March 2009 is being pegged at Rs 2.52
lakh crore from 2.39 lakh crore in the year ended March 2008, which is a growth of 5.53%
over GSDP of 2007-081
. Share of public education2
and public health3
in GSDP stands at
4.43 per cent and 1.51 per cent respectively which is much lower than promised in NCMP.
Undoubtedly, children’s shares in both the sectors are even lower.
The share of allocation for School education department constitute major portion of total
education budget every year(80-85%). If we take the NCMP to be implemented in the State
as well, it can be calculated that out of the promised 6% of GDP expenditure on public
education, at least 4.5% has to be allocated on school education only. That means, an
amount of Rs. 11340 crores required to be allocated under school education department
only against the current year’s budget of 8413 crores4
.
1 http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_andhra-gdp-growth-halves-to-5-5pct_1276947
2 Comprising general education as well as higher and technical education
3 Expenditure by Health, medical and family welfare
4 Calculated from Budget Estimates 2009-10, School Education Department, Govt. of AP
BfC as percentage of State Budget 2009-10
16.52%
Child Budget State Budget
Sectoral Allocation (BE) within BfC in 2009-10
(percentage share)
0.11%
4.56%
11.74%
0.11%
83.48%
Development Health
Education Protection
State budget other than child sectors

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Similarly, if 3% of GDP was promised to be allocated on Public Health, it has to be at least
1.3% towards child health considering that 41% of states population is children below 18
years of age. Therefore, an amount of Rs.7560 crores (3% of GSDP) required to be allocated
on Public Health against current year’s allocation of Rs. 3793.58 crores which is only 1.51%
of State’s Domestic Product. Needless to say that allocation on child health (Rs.118.38
crores) is just a fraction of total public health budget.
• While analyzing sectoral share within child budget, the only positive move noticed was that
there has been increased priority to only development sector compared to other three
sectors of children. As evident from Table 2, out of the total Rs.17374.06 Crore budgeted
for the state’s children in this fiscal year, the share of education, health and protection stands
at 71.05%, 0.68% and 0.66% respectively which are much lower than the estimates (BE) of
2006-2007, 2007-08 and 2008-09. Conversely, share of development has increased from
12.90% in 2006-07 BE to 27.61% in 2009-2010 BE. One can therefore ask that whether
the 16.52% of total state budget will be sufficient to address the needs for 41 percent
of state’s population holistically.
• Similarly within the state budget, the development sector comprises 4.56 per cent of the state
budget in this fiscal year which was only 2.90 per cent in last budget (BE 2008-09).
Education, Health and Protection on the other hand has got 11.74%, 0.11% and 0.11% of
total state budget respectively. In spite of the positive move by the state to prioritized
development sector, one can notice that the two most important sectors viz. health
and protection are still left out of focus in terms of resource allocation.
• Child health programmes/scheme received only 3.10 per cent of total budget allotted under
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Moreover, allocation on programme that have direct
or indirect bearing on children has increased by only 1.66 (From Rs.116.44 crore in BE
2008-09 to Rs.118.38 crore in BE 2009-2010) and this has to be seen against an increase in
allocation under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare by 13.43% in BE 2009-2010 from
last year’s Budget Estimates. Will the present health situation of the state’s children be
improved with this meager increase of allocation?
• According to AP Socio Economic Survey 2007-08, 8810226 school children have been
covered under the scheme “School Health Services” that includes promotion of health and
prevention of diseases of school children by prompt treatment, preliminary screening of all
Table 2: Sectoral Allocation over the years
Sectors Indicators 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
Education 11.83 11.05 12.72 11.74
Health 0.18 0.18 0.12 0.11
Development 1.80 1.90 2.91 4.56
Protection
Sectoral
Share in
State Budget
0.14 0.12 0.11 0.11
Education 84.75 83.47 80.26 71.05
Health 1.32 1.37 0.73 0.68
Development 12.90 14.31 18.33 27.61
Protection
Sectoral
Share in
Child Budget
1.03 0.90 0.68 0.66

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pupils, quarterly medical examination by a doctor and first aid and treatment of minor
ailments. Official record says that more or less equivalent numbers of school children are
covered under this scheme every year. On the contrary there was NO allocation for the
scheme in BE 2008-09, neither any allocation is mentioned for BE 2009-2010. Question
arises on how existing children in school will be ensured better health with no
allocation at all?
• On the background of huge maternal/ infant mortality rates and that about 31.4% of birth is
not institutional in the state5
, “Sukhubhava” scheme was introduced to increase institutional
delivery, which contributes for reduction of maternal and infant mortality. A decrease in
allocation by Rs.95000 (about 49%) under this scheme in current fiscal year is
therefore not justified.
• Increased priority to the development sector is a welcome move by the state govt. However,
lacuna still persists in terms of certain scheme, one of which is “National(Nutrition)
Programme for Adolescent Girls”. Socio Economic Survey 2007-08, Govt. of Andhra
Pradesh revealed that the number of children expected to cover in 2007-08 under
“National(Nutrition) Programme for Adolescent Girls” was 4.39 lakh and govt. record
claims that number of girls targeted to cover every year under this scheme is increasing.
Against this, one can observe the decrease in allocation in BE 2009-2010 by Rs.15000/-.
How the lesser allocation will therefore reach out more girls?
• Despite the huge number of children in the state who needs protection, the allocation for
child protection continues to be the lowest over the years. Although apparently the total
allocation on protection specific scheme have increased by Rs.6.29 crores (5.85 per cent) in
current years budget over last year’s BE, one can see that share of child protection in total
state budget has remained the same at 0.11%. Moreover, there are certain important schemes
experiencing either meager increase or even decrease in allocation. Will the increase in
allocation under Protection sector in the budget 2009-2010 by 5.85% over last year’s
allocation (BE 2008-2009) be enough for children in need of special care? How long
will we continue to neglect the child’s right to be protected?
• The allocation on Child Education6
has declined by 3.37 percent (from Rs.12775.49
crore to Rs.12344.67 crore) between BE 2008-09 and BE 2009-2010. This has to be seen
against the increase in total allocation for education (School education, Higher education and
Technical education) by 11 percent from last year’s budget. Moreover, schemes/programmes
benefiting secondary education have decreased by 16.44 per cent with declined allocation in
many important schemes under secondary education. Allocation on elementary education
experienced an increase of only 8.05 per cent from last year’s BE, but it is worth mentioning
that there has been huge decline in allocation in many schemes under elementary education
this year. To mention a few, SSA and MDM which are two most important programme
5 NFHS III
6 Schemes that have direct bearing to children below the age of 18 are taken from dept. of school, higher,
technical education; dept of social, tribal and BC Welfare; Dept. of women, child and disabled welfare; Dept.
of panchayat raj and rural development;

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under school education department has seen a decline in allocation by 63% and 15%
respectively in current financial year from last year’s budget.
EDUCATION
Our Government recognizes education as one of the chief instruments of social change and
empowerment. Priority is being given for development of elementary and School education.
In order to increase enrolment and reduce dropouts, mid day meal scheme is being
expanded and books are being supplied free of cost in Government schools. Stress is being
given to improve and strengthen infrastructure, like buildings and teaching aids.
Government has also decided to recruit almost 50,000 teachers through District Selection
Committees…
Extracted from the Budget speech 2009-2010 by K.Rosaiah, Finance Minister of Andhra Pradesh
• The allocation on Education has decreased from Rs. Rs.12775.49 crore to Rs.12344.67 crore
between the BE 2008-09 and BE 2009-2010, thus a decrease in share of education in state
budget from 12.72% in BE 2008-09 to 11.74 in BE 2009-2010. This is because many
schemes have experienced huge decline in allocation, whereas some schemes are either been
stopped or merged with other schemes.
• In spite of the claim by state finance minister that ‘…stress is being given to improve and
strengthen infrastructure, like buildings and teaching aids…’ one can find a huge
infrastructural gap including lack of trained teachers in schools hindering quality of school
education in the state. To mention a few, as revealed by Flash Statistics 2007-2008, 16735
schools run without a Building and more than 52% school lack pucca building; 7.34% school
has single teacher and 26123 schools run with only 1 classroom; 39 per cent schools lack
common toilet facilities and 53 percent lack separate toilet for girls; 47% and 69% schools
lack boundary wall and kitchen sheds. In this background it is interesting to see reduced
allocation in many schemes that includes provision for infrastructure in school. For example,
“Providing Basic Amenities to all schools in the State”, “Rural Residential Public School”
and “Operation Blackboard” have met with declined allocation by 88%, 95% and 9%
respectively.
• SSA is the other national flagship schemes of the
UPA government intended to include provision of
infrastructure in schools besides enhancing access,
enrolment and retention. Allocation for SSA has
declined by 63.34% (from Rs.400 crore in BE
2008-09 to Rs.146.65 crore in BE 2009-2010). It is
worth mentioning here that in spite of the state’s
enrolment drives and Govt.’s claim of only 2.8 lakh
children out of school system and more than 98 per cent of state’s habitations are covered
by primary schools, quality of education in the state is still poor and drop out rates are still
high. Lesser allocations every year and even more under spending pose doubt on the
achievements stated by state Govt. regarding enrolment, mainstreaming of out-of-
school children, construction of school-buildings, classrooms etc under SSA.
About 27% children in the state
dropout before finishing 5th class
and 64% dropout between I-X
classes. The rates are even worse
for SCs and STs, 70 percent and 82
percent respectively

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• Lack of trained teachers in schools has been hampering quality of school education in the
state. CAG 2006 revealed that 70016 teachers out of total 220891 in all schools of AP were
untrained and there is a shortage of 54730 teachers in the state. Less educated Vidya
volunteers are placed in schools that lack regular teachers posing even greater threat to
quality of education. In this background, Teacher’s training has been continuously neglected
with lesser allocation every year on schemes that have training components. Apart from
SSA, schemes such as “Teachers’ Training- DIET”, “State council of educational
research & training (SCERT)”, “Training of Teachers for English Medium High
Schools” have experienced reduced allocation this fiscal year by 46%, 11%, 50%
respectively, whereas another scheme “Training programme for Secondary schools
Math & Physical Science teachers” has NO allocation this year against Rs.119.10 lakh in
2008-09.
• Scheme for Universal Access and Quality at Secondary Stage(S.U.C.C.E.S.S) was started last
year with an allocation (BE) of Rs.1000 crore with 75:25 central and state share basis for
providing Infrastructure Facilities viz. Classrooms, Science Labs, Library Hall, Computer
Lab, Co-curricula Activity Room, Staff Rooms, Girl’s Restrooms, Compound wall and
Playfields etc. Against the revised estimates of Rs.750 crore in 2008-09, NO allocation is
mentioned this year under this scheme.
• “In order to increase enrolment and
reduce dropouts, mid day meal scheme
is being expanded…”- says Rosaiah.
However, looking at this year’s outlays, we
could found that both the schemes
“Nutrition Meals Programme for Primary
and Upper-primary School” and “Nutrition
meal programme for high school” have
experienced reduced allocation by 15% and
34% respectively.
• “…Government has taken a historic decision to give post-metric scholarships & tuition
fees reimbursement to all eligible students belonging to SC/ST/BC/Minorities/
Disabled categories, in the State since last two years…”(Budget speech 2009-2010).
Clear from Finance Minster’s Budget Speech every year that Govt. is committed to provide
quality education for SCs, STs, disabled, minorities and thus to increase incentives and
facilities to poor talented children of deprived communities. However, such commitment
looks vague looking at various scholarship programme and educational schemes
intended for SCs and STs under education as well as other departments. On one hand
“Area Intensive Programme for Educationally Backward Minorities”, “Provision of
Incentives for Enhancement of scs/sts Girl Child enrol in High Schools” intended to
provide facilities to other caste children to retain them in schools have experience reduced
allocation by 17% and 85% respectively. On the other hand, scholarships to Intermediate
students have decreased from Rs.275 lakh in 2008-09 to Rs. 68.75 lakh this year. Also “Post-
matric Scholarships for Economically Poor Communities” under Higher Education
Department has experienced reduced allocation by Rs.10 lakh. NO allocation is mentioned
this year towards “scholarships for handicapped studying IX and above classes”.
As identified by the CAG 2007-08,
“…about 95 per cent of the funds released by
GOI towards construction of kitchen sheds
was not spent…Mid-day meals were not
provided during summer vacations in
drought prone areas though stipulated in
guidelines… Not implemented in any of the
Educationally Backward Blocks despite
availability of Central assistance…”

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• National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level(NPEGEL) programme is
implemented on “Model Cluster School Approach” in Andhra Pradesh. AP Socio
Economic Survey 2007-08 observes that “ 5765 Model Cluster Schools are operationalised;
3398 schools receives books, sports and music equipment and vocational materials,
additional classrooms were constructed in 3078 Model Cluster Schools.” A fall in allocation
by 31% (from Rs. 5787.98 Lakh in 2008-09 to Rs. 3987 lakh in 2009-2010) in the
scheme is therefore poses concern about proper implementation of the scheme and
accuracy of the above statement.
HEALTH
• In contradiction to finance minister’s repeated commitment to provide affordable health care to
the entire population in the State every year, provisions on child health specific schemes have met
with the same fate this year as well. Beside a meager increase in allocation under child health
by Rs. 1.93 crore (1.66%) from 2008-09, the share in total state budget has actually decreased
from 0.12% in 2008-096 to 0.11% in 2009-2010.
Given the fact that a huge amount of health care costs are met through private
expenditure which is mostly out-of-pocket, it can be ask what impact this meager
increase in allocation for child health will have on family expenses?
DEVELOPMENT
• This sector has shown a huge increase in allocation this year by 64.41 per cent from last
years budget (BE) which is indeed a welcome move by the govt in the backdrop of abysmal
situation of children especially in 0-6 years of age group as well as adolescents. However,
what needs a mention is, we have as per our methodology taken schemes which are not
intended to children only. For example, “Swayam Sidda”, “Kishore Shakti Yojana”,
“National Programme for Adolecsent Girls” are such schemes that have direct benefits to
women and adolescents and benefit children indirectly. Also another sub-scheme “Subsidy
on Rice(HRD)” is taken under Nutrition Programme that benefits more than 80% of state’s
population, not only children.
• Increase in allocation in this sector, as calculated, is mainly because of huge increase in
allocation on “Subsidy on Rice(HRD)” from Rs.1980 crore in BE 2008-09 to Rs.3500 crore
in BE 2009-2010. “Nutritoon Programme” in total has increased by 73 per cent resulting in
increase in allocation to total development sector.
• The most important scheme
ICDS has shown an increase of
only 15 per cent (from Rs.461.64
crore to Rs.530.65 crore between
2008-09 and 2009-2010). As per
AW survey register, mentioned in
the Status report of the ICDS as
on 30.09.2006, MoWCD,
Government of India, there are
58.67 lakh children in the age
o 26.11 lakh children in the age group of 0-6
years were yet to receive supplementary
nutrition as on 30.09.2006
o Of the 66,101 anganwadies sanctioned, 61,761
anganwadies were operational and 60,141
anganwadies were reporting as on March 2007
o 7971 AWWs and 7454 AEHs are still to be
appointed in the already operational
anganwandies
Source - http://anganwadi.ap.nic.in/icds.html

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group of 0-6 years. As per our calculation, only the “Supplementary Nutrition Programme”
component of ICDS requires Rs.352 crore to cover all these children at prescribed norm of
Rs.2/- per child per day in 300 feeding days. Question may therefore arise that will the
current outlays of Rs.530.65 crore be sufficient in reaching out more children we well
as adolescents, pregnant/ lactating mothers in existing centers and an even larger
issue of ensuring quality?
PROTECTION
• The sector has shown a small increase in allocation by Rs. 6.39 crore which is 5.85%
increase from last year’s budget (BE 2008-09). Though apparently there has been increase in
allocation in absolute terms, one can find that this is too little to ensure all children’s right to
be protected. Out of every 100 rupees allocated in state budget, protection receives only 11
paise this year which is same as last year’s budget.
• Allocation for ‘Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour’ has gone down by 29% (from Rs.14
crore in BE 2008-09 to Rs. 10 crore in BE 2009-2010) showing abdication of govt.’s
commitment in rehabilitating child labour. The state govt seems to be less interested in
rehabilitating women in distress which is reflected in reduced allocation on ‘Schemes for
setting up Women's Training centers/ Institution for Rehabilitation of Women-in-
distress’ and “Financial assistance to women and girl victim affected by cognizable
offences”.
• As mentioned by the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare 33,594
girls(single girl – 4610 + two girls – 28984) have been sanctioned upto march 2006 under
“Girl Child Protection Scheme”. Therefore, it is calculated that an amount of Rs. 13305.2
lakh had to be allocated in the year 2006-07 to cover all these 33,594 girls as per prescribed
norm. Against this requirement the financial allocation has been stagnant to Rs.3534.56 lakh
this year. Question may therefore arise about the actual number of beneficiaries under
this scheme.
CONCLUSION
Ongoing economic slowdown affects Children
The Budget speech does mention that “…it is only through better fiscal management and effective
tax administration that we can optimize our allocation on welfare programmes…”. One can not
deny that bad fiscal management affects the disadvantaged like children more than the general
public. It is therefore obvious that increase in fiscal deficit (estimated Rs.16,162 crores in BE 2009-
2010 which is 3.96% of GSDP, a increase from 2.81% in RE2008-09) as in case of this year due to
the global financial crisis will impact planning programmes for average people of the state and
undoubtedly its children will be the ultimate suffers.
Secondly, this will result in either increased borrowings or increase in taxes. Either way, the general
public of the state will have to bear the burden of fund raising and disadvantaged group viz. children
will be affected more. In other words, as a consequence of the ongoing economic slowdown and
govt’s policy response to overcome hardships of global slowdown will result in even lesser attention
to already neglected areas concerning children. Therefore the State Budget 2009-2010 definitely does
not point up any new hope for our children.

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ANNEXURE – SCHEME WISE BUDGET ALLOCATION ACROSS CHILD-SPECIFIC
SECTORS
List of Schemes/ Programme under Education
BE RE BE
2008-09 2008-09 2009-10
Difference
% Change
in BESl
No.
Description of major schemes/Programme
A B C D=(C-A) E=D/A*100
I. Elementary Education (Education Department)
1 Examinations 91375 91363 0 -91375 -100.00
2 Office Buildings-Maintenance & Repair 591820 591820 591820 0 0.00
3 Primary Education 32765193 34020699 41356516 8591323 26.22
5 Language Development 48054 48054 52736 4682 9.74
6
Providing Basic Amenities to all schools in the
State 200000 125000 25000 -175000 -87.50
7 Operation Black Board Scheme 82853 83981 75506 -7347 -8.87
8 Lumpsum Provision—GIA towards salaries 845016 0 114019 -730997 -86.51
9 Supply of Text Books to SCs/STs 121000 112750 101000 -20000 -16.53
11
Area Intensive Programme for Educationally
Backward Minorities—GIA—CSS 66400 66400 66400 0 0.00
13
Universalisation of Elementary Education under
Azim Premji Foundation 0 0 20000 20000
New
Allocation
14 Innovation in School Education 1500 375 200 -1300 -86.67
15 NEPGEL 578798 727912 398700 -180098 -31.12
16 KGBV 380000 380000 931996 551996 145.26
17 Educational Technology Programme 17404 17404 20885 3481 20.00
18 Information and Communication Technology 1140500 1015500 894625 -245875 -21.56
20 Integrated Education for Disabled Children 45660 31920 48368 2708 5.93
21 Nutrition Meals Programme (MDM) 6781400 6781400 5796400 -985000 -14.53
22 Improvement of Science Education 0 0 0 0 0.00
23 Sarva Siksha Abhiyan 4000000 4000000 1466515 -2533485 -63.34
24 Teachers Training, DIET 320000 156705 174256 -145744 -45.55
26
Construction of Buildings for Kitchen-cum-store
room 600000 600000 600000 0 0.00
27 Major works at School Buildings 79027 59027 54027 -25000 -31.63
28
Establishment of Model Public School on Public-
Private Partnership 5000 2500 0 -5000 -100.00
29 Protection of High school building 100000 10000 5000 -95000 -95.00
(I) Elementary Edu : Sub total 48861000 48922810 52793969 3932969 8.04930108
II. Secondary Education (Education Department)
30 Examinations 283539 284825 389596 106057 37.40
31 Direction and administrations 547485 529661 582331 34846 6.36

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32 Secretariat 26994 25859 32283 5289 19.59
33 Nutrition meal programme for high school 1751800 1506800 1156800 -595000 -33.97
34 Junior colleges & institutions 4475237 4494843 5116125 640888 14.32
36 Buildings of Intermediate Education-Minor works 100000 100000 100000 0 0.00
37 Computerization of school education 220000 110000 37500 -182500 -82.95
38
Universalisation of Secondary Education
("Andariki Vidya") 50332 687300 50000 -332 -0.66
39
Supply of Sc.equipments to Secondary
Schools—CSS 0 0 0 0 0.00
40 Mordanisation of Madarsa Ed.—CSS 24000 24000 24000 0 0.00
41 National green corps 5000 5000 0 -5000 -100.00
42
SC,ST,other—Welfare- School Edu under the
control of DSE (Salaries and other exp.) 0 0 0 0 0.00
43
Free Edu to the Children of the deceased in the
extremists Violence and Accidents 225 169 225 0 0.00
44
Provision of Incentives for Enhancement of
scs/sts Girl Child enrol in High Schools 50000 12500 7500 -42500 -85.00
45 Inspector of Physical Education 2580 2580 1000 -1580 -61.24
46 Organization of South India Science Fair 3386 3386 0 -3386 -100.00
47 Youth welfare programme for students 15730 15710 16120 390 2.48
48 Text books 873916 881351 906548 32632 3.73
49 Publications, registrar 2699 2651 3261 562 20.82
50 Bal bhavans 23735 26892 31710 7975 33.60
51 Language development 219725 214130 253785 34060 15.50
52
State council of educational research & training
(SCERT) 154171 140023 137946 -16225 -10.52
53 Training 423243 419473 458712 35469 8.38
54 Scholarships 48883 26758 25758 -23125 -47.31
55 Secondary education strengthening 17600 4398 2500 -15100 -85.80
56 Assistance to government secondary schools 13264133 10162819 3210331 -10053802 -75.80
57
Assistance to non-govt. And local bodies
secondary institutions & organisations 19800062 20386739 23021645 3221583 16.27
58 Polytechnics 1146543 1240542 1598912 452369 39.46
59 Construction of School Buildings under RIDF 750000 187500 375000 -375000 -50.00
60
Assistance to APREI Society under APREI
Integrated Centralised Schools 500000 125000 100000 -400000 -80.00
61 Major works at school building under DSE 190873 180873 180873 -10000 -5.24
62
Major works at school building under
Intermediate Education through Rural
Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) 100000 75000 25000 -75000 -75.00
63 Construction of Govt. Junior College(RIAD) 100000 20000 0 -100000 -100.00
64
Construction of SC/ST Hostel building to girls
under Intermediate Education 37000 660 0 -37000 -100.00
65 Buildings for Polytechnics 88500 22150 3800 -84700 -95.71
(II) Secondary Edu : Sub total
45297391 41919592 37849261 -7448130 -16.44
II. Elementary/Secondary Education (Other Departments)

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66
Twelfth Finance Commission Grants for
Maintenance of Social Welfare Hostel Buildings 11000 11000 11000 0 0.00
67
State Scholarships-Scholarships and Stipends
for SC students 165000 165000 165000 0 0.00
68
Post Matriculation Scholarship under Social
Welfare Dept. 6030000 6130000 6006200 -23800 -0.39
69 Government Hostels for SC students 3630598 3642518 3803186 172588 4.75
70 Book Banks for SC students 10600 10600 10350 -250 -2.36
71
Government Residential Centralized Schools for
SC students 2878739 2878739 2010100 -868639 -30.17
72
Scholarships and Educational facilities to
Children of those engaged in Unclean
Occupation 30100 30100 50100 20000 66.45
73 Merit Up gradation Awards to SC Students 10000 10000 10075 75 0.75
74 Capital Outlay under SW Department 5026100 2281800 937500 -4088600 -81.35
75
Twelfth Finance Commission Grants for
Maintenance of Tribal Welfare Hostel Buildings
5500 5500 5500
0 0.00
76 Educational Institutes for tribals 3185104 3179827 3463687 278583 8.75
77 Post Matriculation Scholarship for tribal students 902000 902000 1648000 746000 82.71
78 Pre- Metric Scholarship for tribals 154000 154000 154000 0 0.00
79 Residential Schools for Tribals 485725 485725 300725 -185000 -38.09
80 Capital Outlay under TW Department 1519000 1519000 480000 -1039000 -68.40
81
Twelfth Finance Commission Grants for
Maintenance of BC Welfare Hostel Buildings 10000 10000 10000 0 0.00
82 Post Matriculation Scholarship for BC students 3410000 5160000 4440000 1030000 30.21
83 Government Hostels for BC students 2393684 2403549 2529744 136060 5.68
84
Reimbursement of Tuition Fees to the Children
of BC classes 1500000 5750000 5000000 3500000 233.33
85
Assistance to APREI Society for Residential High
Schools-Cum-Junior Colleges for Backward
Classes 370487 370487 250000 -120487 -32.52
86 Pre- Metric Scholarship for BC Students 232005 232005 233000 995 0.43
87 Capital Outlay under BC Welfare Department 410000 335000 225000 -185000 -45.12
88 Industrial Training Institutes 572094 558975 742536 170442 29.79
89 Apprenticeship Training Schemes 40783 42230 50635 9852 24.16
90 Buildings for ITI - Major works 170000 58610 14649 -155351 -91.38
91
Govt. Residential Schools for Disabled under the
control of Director for the Disabled Welfare 55393 56256 67222 11829 21.35
92 Scholarship to Physically Handicapped Students 13939 13939 16726 2787 19.99
93
Scholarship for handicapped studying IX and
above classes 15491 15491 0 -15491 -100.00
94
Opening and maintenance of Junior College for
Hearing Handicapped 704 704 350 -354 -50.28
95
Construction of
Hostels/Schools/Homes/Buildings for
Handicapped Persons 2822 2822 0 -2822 -100.00

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96
Assistance to PR bodies for maintenance of
School bldg 105682 105682 105682 0 0.00
97
Construction of High Schools under RIAD
programme 250000 62500 62500 -187500 -75.00
(III) Elementary/Secondary Edu (other Depts): Sub
total 33596550 36584059 32803467 -793083 -2.36
(IV) Child Education-TOTAL (I+II+III) (Rs. In Crores) 12775.4941 12742.6461 12344.6697 -430.8244 -3.37
State Budget (Rs. In Crores) 100436.55 90891.093 105143.77 4707.225 4.69
Child Edu as % of State Budget 12.72 14.02 11.74
List of Schemes/ Programme under Child Health sector
BE RE BE
2007-08 2007-08 2008-09
Difference
% Change
in BESl
No.
Description of major schemes/Programme
A B C D=(C-A) E=D/A*100
1 Maternity And Child Health, HOD-Health 33914 33096 36173 2259 6.66
2 Medical Termination of Pregnancy, CSS 1810 1810 2502 692 38.23
3 Reproductive Child Health(RCH) Programme 370000 370000 421506 51506 13.92
4 Medical Inspection On Schools 14338 14909 16601 2263 15.78
5
Assistance To Children Suffering From Heart
Diseases 50000 22500 0 -50000 -100.00
6 Manufacture Of Sera And Vaccine 207733 189930 252905 45172 21.75
7 School Health Services 0 0 0 0 0.00
8 Sukhibhava 195000 195000 100000 -95000 -48.72
9
Training of Auxiliary Nurses, Midwives, Dayas
and Lady Health Visitors-CSS 35875 35875 45695 9820 27.37
10
ANM Training schools run by local bodies and
Voluntary org-GIA-CSS 37500 37500 41250 3750 10.00
11 Employment Of A.N.Ms 147000 139800 121300 -25700 -17.48
12 Post Partum Scheme 71260 87612 145838 74578 104.66
Child Health - TOTAL (Rs. In Crores) 116.443 112.8032 118.377 1.934 1.66
Ministry of H & FW (Rs. In crores) 3368.946 3201.977 3821.407 452.4611 13.43
Child Health as % of Ministry of H & FW 3.46 3.52 3.10
State Budget (Rs. In Crores) 100436.5 90891.09 105143.8 4707.225 4.69
Child Health as % of State Budget 0.12 0.12 0.11

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List of Schemes/ Programme under Development sector
BE RE BE
2008-09 2008-09 2009-10
Difference
% Change
in BE
Sl No. Description of major schemes/Programme
A B C D=(C-A) E=D/A*100
1
Secretariat Social Services - Women Development,
Child Welfare and Disabled Welfare Department 11726 12076 13387 1661
14.17
2 Balika Samridhi Yojana-Centrally Sponsored 68700 68700 68700 0 0.00
3
INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT
SCHEME (ICDS)
3.1
ICDS Schemes—IDA assisted I.C.D.S-IV
Project, CSS 443338 443338 443698 360
0.08
3.2
Construction of Buildings for Anganwadi
Centres/ICDS Projects with WB Assistance
ICDS IV Project, CSS 400000 400000 0 -400000
-100.00
3.3
ICDS scheme - Centrally Sponsored including
TAS 3197759 3197759 3862818 665059
20.80
3.4
ICDS scheme - State plan including SCP &
TAS 575337 575337 1000000 424663
73.81
TOTAL ICDS 4616434 4616434 5306516 690082 14.95
4 Nutrition Programme 24173728 24173735 41865541 17691813 73.19
5 Swayam Sidda - Centrally Sponsored 0 0 0 0 0.00
6 Kishore Shakti Yojana, Centrally Sponsored 42350 42350 42350 0 0.00
7 Child Welfare-Headquerter office 380 380 459 79 20.79
8 National Programme For Adolescent Girls 164700 149700 149700 -15000 -9.11
9
Capital Outlay-Construction of Buildings for
Anganwadi Centres 100000 0 525000 425000
425.00
Child Development- TOTAL (Rs. In crores) 2917.802 2906.338 4797.165 1879.3635 64.41
State Budget (Rs. In Crores) 100436.5 90891.09 105143.8 4707.225 4.69
Child Development as % of State Budget 2.91 3.20 4.56

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List of Schemes/ Programme under Protection sector
BE RE BE
2007-08 2007-08 2008-09
Difference
% Change in
BESl
No.
Description of major
schemes/Programme
A B C D=(C-A) E=D/A*100
1 Welfare of Aged, Infirm and Destitute 115019 118464 142762 27743 24.12
2 Rehabilitation Of Bonded Labour 140000 140000 100000 -40000 -28.57
3
Schemes for setting up Women's
Training centers/ Institution for
Rehabilitation of Women-in-distress
5042 5042 2500 -2542 -50.42
4
Financial asst to women and girl victim
affected by cognizable offences under
C.R.P.C
8000 8000 4000 -4000 -50.00
5 Girl child protection scheme 353456 353456 353456 0 0.00
6
Services for Children in Need of Care
& Protection
281332 286848 283802 2470 0.88
7
Headquarter offices - HOD- Juvenile
Welfare
200 200 500 300 150.00
8
JUVENILE WELFARE - Correctional
Services
170312 173493 249278 78966 46.37
9 Training-HOD-Juvenile Welfare 195 195 195 0 0.00
10
Rehabilitation of Beggars Maintenance
of homes for beggars including Child
Beggars-Capital Outlay
2000 2000 2000 0 0.00
Child Protection- TOTAL (Rs. In crores) 107.5556 108.7698 113.8493 6.2937 5.85
State Budget (Rs. In Crores) 100436.5 90891.09 105143.8 4707.225 4.69
Child Protection as % of State Budget 0.11 0.12 0.11