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Funds under Sarv Siksha Abhiyan: Centre, states have concurrent responsibility

New Delhi, Aug 10 (UNI) The government today stated the responsibility for meeting the fund requirements under Sarv Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) vests with both the Centre and the States.
Upendra Kushwaha, Minister of State (HRD), in a written reply in Rajya Sabha, said, “A total sum of Rs. 23,500 crore has been provided for SSA for the year 2017-18 at Budget Estimate stage against the Ministry’s estimated resource demand of Rs. 55,000 cr.”
Under the SSA programme, budgetary support, as per the existing funds sharing pattern, is provided towards implementation of the different components of the Scheme including the payment of teachers’ salaries etc. “Further, Section 7(1) of the Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009, states that both the Centre and the State shall have concurrent responsibility for providing funds for carrying out the provisions of the Act. Section 7(3) states that the Central Government shall provide to the State Government, as grants-in-aid of revenues, such percentage of expenditure as it may determine, while, Section 7(5) states that the State Government shall, taking into consideration the sums provided by the Central Government to a State Government, be responsible to provide funds for the implementation of the provisions of the Act.
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