2025 Budget allocation: List of fund allocation captured in 2025 Budget
Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, Finance Minister, has announced the fund allocations to various sectors or programmes in the 2025 Budget read on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday March 11, 2025.
The government has made provision for the victims of the tidal wave disaster in the Ketu South constituency, Volta Region. A whopping GH¢200 million has been allocated to support victims of the tidal wave disaster in the Ketu South constituency.
Teacher and nursing trainees’ allowance payment were not exempted in the budget. GH¢203 million and GH¢480 million has also been allocated for the payment of Teacher Trainees and nursing trainee allowances respectively
2025 BUDGET: Allocations to Various Sectors or Programmes
1. GH¢13.85 billion: Allocation for the Big Push Programme.
2. GH¢499.8 million: Allocation for the No-Academic-Fee policy for first-year students in public tertiary institutions.
3. GH¢292.4 million: Allocation for the distribution of free sanitary pads to female students in primary and secondary schools.
4. GH¢242.5 million: Allocation to support victims of the Akosombo dam spillage.
5. GH¢200 million: Allocation to support victims of the tidal wave disaster in the Ketu South constituency.
6. GH¢3.5 billion: Allocation for the free secondary education program.
7. GH¢564.6 million: Allocation for comprehensive provision of free curricula-based textbooks.
8. GH¢1.788 billion: Allocation for the School Feeding Programme.
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9. GH¢145.5 million: Allocation for the Capitation Grant.
10. GH¢203 million: Allocation for the payment of teacher trainee allowances.
11. GH¢480 million: Allocation for the payment of nursing trainee allowances.
12. GH¢9.93 billion: Allocation for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
13. GH¢2.81 billion: Allocation for the Ghana Road Fund.
14. GH¢7.51 billion: Allocation for the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
15. GH¢1.5 billion: Allocation for Agriculture for Economic Transformation Agenda (AETA).
16. GH¢51.3 million: Allocation as seed fund for the establishment of the Women’s Development Bank.
17. GH¢300 million: Allocation for the National Apprenticeship Programme.
18. GH¢100 million: Allocation for the ‘Adwumawura’ Programme.
19. GH¢100 million: Allocation for the National Coders Programme
SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh
