UK to provide £150 million for education in India
4 March 2008
 Prime Minister Gordon Brown today pledged £150 million to
help to get all children in
India into primary school. The money will train 300,000 more teachers and build
300,000 more classrooms, benefiting 4 million children by 2011.
Redoubling efforts on education
 Announcing
the funding, the Prime Minister spoke of the need to accelerate progress to
reach the Millennium Development Goal on education:
"We need to redouble our efforts to get the remaining 72 million into school
by 2015 and to improve their quality of learning. That is why the UK has
committed £8.5 billion for education and why I am pledging £150 million of extra
support to India's national programme for elementary education."
The announcement came as the Global Campaign for Education visited 10 Downing
Street to launch their Send
My Friend '08 initiative. Send My Friend encourages children to ask their
MPs how they will help with reaching the 2015 target. The pledges they receive
will be passed on to the Prime Minister prior to June's G8 meeting in Japan.
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DFID: Committed to education in India
 DFID is committed to seeing that all children get the chance to go to school.
Since 2003, we have spent £350 million on basic education in India. This has
mostly helped fund the Government of India’s Education For All programme, which
aims to get all India’s children, particularly girls, into primary school. The
programme has resulted in an increase in primary school enrolment from 160
million in 2003 to more than 190 million in 2007.
DFID also recently committed £35 million in support of the Government of
India’s education for women’s equality programme, which helps women and girls in
rural areas to overcome discrimination and access educational opportunities.
This supports over 7 million adolescent girls and women across rural India to
help them to read and write.
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