TRENDS IN PUBLIC SPENDING ON EDUCATIONAND HEALTH sector IN INDIA

The paper explores the inclinations in the progress and financing of education and health in India. Characterized by fluctuating plan expenditure over different years, education sector in India shows signs of biasness, with more expenditure being incurred on elementary level of education. States like Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Bihar are found to be spending more on education in comparison to other states and UT’s. The gender parity index in education till date shows preference for males to females. India also lags behind other nations in government’s expenditure as percentage of GDP. Moreover, in health the situation is not contradictory but similar like education sector. The public expenditure on Health in India has experienced wide fluctuations over the entire planning period and followed wide inter‐state variations .Thus a good degree of skewness is clearly evident in case of public expenditure on health in India. Which lags behind in health expenditure as percentage of GDP when juxtaposed with developed nations like U.S., U.K. and France etc.