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Government allocates K3,320,9 billion for education

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Government says increased the allocation to the education sector to K3.320.9 billion representing a 26.4 percent increase.

Announcing the increase in Parliament today, Finance and National Planning minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said this is because government places much importance on education to make it the second largest sector of priority in the 2010 national budget.

He said, during the presentation of the 2010 national budget in parliament today, that government has since devoted substantial resources to the sector in order to raise the standards of education and provides better opportunities to the children.

He revealed to parliament that the country is on course of achieving the Millennium development Goals (MDG) on achieving universal access to primary education by 2015.

He has attributed this to the critical role communities’ schools and the private sector has played in increasing access to education for all.

Dr. Musokotwane has further disclosed that K 215.2 billion from 2009 budget has been used to complete 12 basic schools across the country while 2,500 classrooms for basic schools which were planned last year will be completed early next year.

He said an addition of 20 high schools are in their advance stages around the country and will be completed soon.

He added that government has allocated K553.5 billion for the construction of an additional 2,900 classrooms to provide school places for over 250,000 students across the country.

The Minister said K 21.4 billion has been allocated towards the procurement of books, desks, and other educational materials.

He further said government has allocated the three public universities with 317.9 billion for operations, infrastructure development and bursaries for students.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. This is one great thing done after people speaking up! Lets put more pressure on Dora and RB, so as to save face they allocate ridiculous amounts to education.

  2. Hope Inspectors have been allocated funds to help inspect schools in this budget. It was a shame to see Inspectors seated in their offices instead of inspecting schools in 2009.

  3. We will need to organise workshops to see how best the money can be used so that the projects are implemented! Ha ha ha! Half of this will go to unknown workshops around the country that are attended by the same people all the time. Its a shame. Universities must be allocated a bigger piece otherwise closures will be the order of the day next year as well.

  4. we dont even benefit from that money…bursaries are given to ghost students..come on …..Dora as da minister of education..ehhh

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