SSC CPO SI and ASI Model Paper 7

Directions (Q. 191–195): Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four given alternatives.
Education in the Indian constitution is a concurrent issue and both centre and states can legislate on the issue. The Right to Education (RTE) Act lays down specific responsibilities for the centre, state and local bodies for its implementation. The states have been clamouring that they lack financial capacity to deliver education of appropriate standard in all the schools needed for universal education. Thus it was clear that the central government (which collects most of the revenue) will be required to subsidise the states.
A committee set up to study the funds requirement and funding initially estimated that INR 1710 billion or 1.71 trillion (US$38.2 billion) across five years was required to implement the RTE Act, and in April 2010 the central government agreed to sharing the funding for implementing the law in the ratio of 65 to 35 between the centre and the states, and a ratio of 90 to 10 for the north-eastern states. However, in mid-2010, this figure was upgraded to INR 2310 billion, and the centreagreed to raise its share to 68%. There is some confusion onthis, with some media reports stating that the centre's shareof the implementation expenses would now be 70%. At thatrate, most states may not need to increase their educationbudgets substantially.