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States' Education Budget as a proportion of GSDP

The metric below presents the education budget of a state as a proportion of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP). Bihar tops the list with a proportion of more than 5 per cent of its GSDP, followed by Chhattisgarh. Karnataka, on the other end of the range, has recorded its education budget to be 1.71 per cent of GSDP in 2021-22BE.

Source: Detailed Demands for Grants, Annual Financial Statements, Budget at a Glance, for different states across years.

Notes:
1. 'Education Budget' here includes total budgets of a state's education related departments like Departments of Elementary, Secondary, Higher, Technical and Adult Education, Sports, Youth, Art and Culture etc. of each state. Additionally, it includes major expenditure on education undertaken by other state departments and budgets on education for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
2. For Punjab, the budget documents of 2021-22 are unavailable online and hence it could not be included in the state-wise comparison.
3. The metric does not include Rajasthan, Goa, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Telangana due to data unavailability.
4. The figures for Odisha and Haryana are based on GSDP data from 2020-21BE.

Notes:
1. 'Education Budget' here includes total budgets of a state's education related departments like Departments of Elementary, Secondary, Higher, Technical and Adult Education, Sports, Youth, Art and Culture etc. of each state. Additionally, it includes major expenditure on education undertaken by other state departments and budgets on education for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
2. The metric does not include data from Tripura, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur.

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