KOCHI: The State Budget 2012-13 has nothing much to offer to the city on the education front. Only the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) has something to cheer about. The Finance Minister has announced the setting up of a Centre for Budget Studies on the campus for which Rs 5 lakh has been earmarked.Studies are hardly being done on the budget. Usually, funds are set aside for different projects when the budget is announced but very little is known about the way it is utilised. A lot of projects remain on paper and the funds unutilised. It was against this backdrop that the need for a centre for budget studies came up, said Cusat sources. “The project to set up a Centre for Budget Studies is purely an academic project. Most universities in the state are facing non-plan deficit and we had expected a one-time grant for compensating the deficit,” said A Ramachandran, Registrar, Cusat.“Usually funds are earmarked for developing cluster of colleges but this year nothing has been allotted for academic purpose in government colleges. Other than plans to raise a few colleges to centres of excellence, no fund has been earmarked for raising academic standards,” said Rafeeq, district general secretary, Government College Teachers Association. But conservation of heritage buildings have been given a fillip through which the heritage buildings of Maharajas’ College and Law College will be maintained, he said.
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