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Secondary education is informally regarded as the education children receive during their teenage years, although the average ages of entrance and exit vary considerably among various nations. The distinction between lower-secondary education and upper secondary education is useful in a global context, because developing countries are sometimes able to provide some access to lower-secondary education, while upper secondary education is still beyond the national reach. The lower-secondary education is considered to generally target eleven- to fifteen-year-old children, and upper-secondary education to target fifteen- to nineteen-year-olds. In the context of life-support systems, secondary education systems in both underdeveloped and developed nations will be considered in this article. There is danger in examining and evaluating national education systems in less-developed nations because it is too easy to reach the conclusion that they should mimic the education systems of developed nations like India. This study assesses the pattern of public spending on secondary education in India.