Recommendation 4 - FUNDING: The current funding arrangements for SBI schools may need to be
revised. The Ministry could consider these possible steps:
redirecting funding so that more funds go to rural initiatives, so as to ensure that poorer
areas can also have access to good SBI schools
continuing to allow and encourage parental funding for SBI schools, at a reasonable level
allowing schools to become SBI schools without receiving government funding, if they
wish, so long as they meet the quality criteria
reducing or cutting funding for schools in urban areas where the parents can pay, as those
areas already benefit from many advantages.