Panaji: Goa Chief Minister, Manohar Parrikar, said that there is a possibility that the Goa government may increase the spending money on educational sector to 5-6 per cent of the gross domestic product. At present the spending on education sector stands at 3.4 per cent.
In a press conference on Saturday evening Parrikar made this announcement where he had presented the detailed analysis of the spending of the state during the current fiscal. The chief minister said the current allocation for educational sector, which is around 3.4 per cent of the GDP, is the highest in the country and much more than the national average.
He also said that the Goa government which has decided to make education a priority area will increase the spending to 5-6 per cent of the GDP in the coming years.
A few months back, at the 55th Convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, he urged that engineering graduates who are finding difficulty in getting job in the IT sector should not crave for obvious and glamorous jobs. Further, Parrikar said that the world is changing at very fast pace and requested graduates to try their hand at politics.