More funds towards education, health budgets

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The Ministry of Education and Skills Development once again received the lion’s share of the recurrent 2015/16 budget unveiled yesterday, with a P10.31 billion allocation up 5.2 percent from the 2014/15 budget.

The ministry’s proposed allocation represents 28.1 percent of the total recurrent budget of P36.7 billion and comes in the wake of assistant education minister, Moiseraele Goya, stating government’s desire to resolve long standing problems within the portfolio.

Delivering the budget speech, Finance and Development Planning minister, Kenneth Matambo said the increased allocation to education was strategic.

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