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Samagra Shiksha funds for TN drop by 34% in 2025-26
The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar
|May 26, 2025
THE fresh allocation of funds approved for Tamil Nadu under the Samagra Shiksha Scheme by the Ministry of Education's Project Approval Board (PAB) has dropped by ₹1,416 crore (34 per cent) from ₹4,150 crore in 2024-25 to ₹2,734 crore in 2025-26.
Though the approved allocation last year was ₹4,150 crore, it was reduced by the PAB to ₹3,586 crore. The ₹2,734 crore allocated for 2025-26 is nearly ₹850 crore lower than that. It is, however, noteworthy that the budget proposed to the PAB by the Tamil Nadu government was also lower at ₹3,104 crore for 2025-25 compared to ₹4,579 crore proposed in 2024-25. This allocation of ₹2,734 crore is the lowest for Tamil Nadu in the last five years under the centrally-sponsored scheme in which the centre shares 60% of the annual expenditure while the state bears 40%.
This story is from the May 26, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar.
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