Ar Rs. 840 per school going child, the Government spends twice as much as their parents do in a year, but the State needs another Rs. 7,186 crores to bring education to 59-million children still left out. And the Government were to honour its commitment of providing free elementary education, it would need a whopping Rs. 24,967 crores around 57 per cent of the total national budget(1995), according to a recent survey.