New Delhi, March 25 -- A parliamentary panel on Wednesday flagged significant underutilisation of funds for centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) in school education for financial year (FY) 2025-26 and raised concerns over the "negligible" capital expenditure allocated for FY 2026-27.

In its report on demands for grants of the department of school education and literacy for 2026-27, the 31-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, chaired by Digvijaya Singh, noted that against a budget estimate (BE) of Rs.62,660 crore for five CSS, including Samagra Shiksha, actual expenditure stood at Rs.32,296.54 crore as of February 13 - just 51.5% of the BE and 60.1% of the revised estimate (RE) of Rs.53,730...