7.1 Sources
The main sources of funds for educational expenditures are; the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Government of India, parents, individual donors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Increasing number of Tibetan parents are encouraged to contribute whatever they can towards the education of their children. The pattern of income in all the four major school groups combined (CTSA, STSA, TCV and THF) in broad categories for the year 1996 looks like this:
The Government of India supports the education of Tibetan children by subsidizing the CTSA schools expenditure. This is a substantial contribution considering that the CTSA schools enroll about 40 % of the entire student population in the Tibetan school network. The DOE and Autonomous schools rely on contributions from foreign individuals and NGOs more than on the Government of India.
66.7 % of the school administrators said that their schools had adequate financial resources , while 33.3 % opined that their schools did not have adequate financial resources. These administrators said that the financial constraints handicapped the development of their schools as they were unable to meet the student's physical, mental and emotional requirements and thus hampered their efforts to provide a quality education.
7.2 Uses
The uses of educational finances have been presented in two stages - first, by looking at the budgetary trend of the main school categories over a period of about 5 years and secondly by presenting a percentage breakdown of expenditure through graphs.
A complete graphic presentation of budgetary trends was not possible because of the unavailability of data for all the years in all school categories. Hence, the graphic presentations are given wherever we had the data. Since complete data of the four major school categories were available for only two years-(1992 and 1993), a graphic presentation to show overall budgetary increase in Tibetan schools over the years has not been possible. But increasing trends evident in individual school categories would give us the general trend.
7.3 Utilization pattern of funds in major school categories*
The utilization pattern of funds in major school categories are presented in the form of pie charts. The percentages of pre-school, school and post school education also includes expenditure on the care of children in many of the residential schools.
