By Seli Baisie
Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson has outlined financial allocations for key sectors and initiatives in the 2025 budget, with a focus on education, infrastructure, social welfare, and disaster relief.
These allocations are designed to drive economic recovery and development, tackling urgent national challenges while setting the stage for sustainable growth.
A total of 19 key allocations were outlined in the budget, including:
- GH¢13.85 billion: Allocation for the Big Push Programme.
- GH¢499.8 million: Allocation for the No-Academic-Fee policy for first-year students in public tertiary institutions.
- GH¢292.4 million: Allocation for the distribution of free sanitary pads to female students in primary and secondary schools.
- GH¢242.5 million: Allocation to support victims of the Akosombo dam spillage.
- GH¢200 million: Allocation to support victims of the tidal wave disaster in the Ketu South constituency.
- GH¢3.5 billion: Allocation for the free secondary education program.
- GH¢564.6 million: Allocation for comprehensive provision of free curricula-based textbooks.
- GH¢1.788 billion: Allocation for the School Feeding Programme.
- GH¢145.5 million: Allocation for the Capitation Grant.
- GH¢203 million: Allocation for the payment of teacher trainee allowances.
- GH¢480 million: Allocation for the payment of nursing trainee allowances.
- GH¢9.93 billion: Allocation for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
- GH¢2.81 billion: Allocation for the Ghana Road Fund.
- GH¢7.51 billion: Allocation for the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
- GH¢1.5 billion: Allocation for Agriculture for Economic Transformation Agenda (AETA).
- GH¢51.3 million: Allocation as seed fund for the establishment of the Women’s Development Bank.
- GH¢300 million: Allocation for the National Apprenticeship Programme.
- GH¢100 million: Allocation for the ‘Adwumawura’ Programme.
- GH¢100 million: Allocation for the National Coders Programme
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