shillong chief minister conrad k sangma on tuesday said a little over 15 of the states budget is spent on education every year adding that despite numerous challenges in the education sector the government was committed to improve the overall scenario in meghalayaeducation has been an area where as a government we have focused a lot it is one of the most challenging sectors but we have taken up the challenge and are working towards improving education through various interventions whether it is the education policy investment in government school buildings opening of peoples college or different kinds of support that we give towards infrastructure even to private schools and colleges he told a gathering at a function to commemorate the silver jubilee of mawsynram border area college in the east khasi hills district out of the rs 16000 crore of budget that the meghalaya government spends every year over rs 2500 crore is spent for the running expenditure of different schools colleges and over and above that other infrastructure investments are made every year the kind of importance that is given to education can be seen by the amount of budget that we spend on education he said