“…Even though the reductions were lower than the government's original targets, the rationalization program resulted in signifi cant effi ciency gains: the student-teacher ratio increased from 10.8 in 1/ 560,637 533,398 513,621 493,433 477,011 464,063 446,140 -20.4 -3.9 No. of classes 1/ 27,059 25,861 24,332 22,016 21,365 20,878 20,536 75,680 72,247 62,316 56,218 53,880 50,666 47,280 47,411 37,338 34,204 33,496 31,870 28,401 24,836 24,978 22,015 20,384 19, For , 2002total recurrent expenditure corresponds to the approved annual budgets for the respective years. draft budget information of corresponding years is used for total recurrent expenditure estimate.…”