evidence: The education budget this time is the lowest in three years — with school education taking the biggest cut of almost Rs 5,000 crore — and the allocation for higher education has decreased by roughly Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 38,350 crore, The Indian Express reported. [...] The ministry’s school education scheme Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan saw its allocation reduced to ₹31,050.16 crore from 38,750.50 crore in the current fiscal. Funds for the National Scheme for Incentive to Girls for Secondary Education have been reduced to just ₹1 crore from ₹110 crore in the current fiscal.