Budget 2025 for Education Sector
What's in store for the Education Sector from the upcoming full Budget on February 1. Set to be a 'Pocket Booster' budget with focus on giving consumption a leg-up along with pushing capex Read More.., it is set to benefit a host of sectors. Keep a track on all the expectations, final announcements and in depth analysis of the Budget decision only on Financial Express. We offer you a detailed list of expectation and announcements for Education Sector on its dedicated page Who Gets What. Navigate through all the declarations at a glance from the current and past Union Budgets on this page.
Budget 2025-26 Announcements for Education Sector
Education Sector
- 10,000 seats in medical colleges and hospitals and 75,000 seats in the next 5 years.
- Additional infrastructure in IITs and set up 50,000 Atal Tinkering Labs to promote scientific temper.
- Increase hostels and infra capacity of IIT Patna.
- In the next 5 years, 10,000 fellowships for tech research in IIT and IISCs will be provided
- The government will launch Bharatiya Bhasha Pushtak scheme to provide a digital form of Indian language books for schools and higher education.
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Budget Announcements for Education Sector in FY2025
Education Sector
- Rs 1.48 lac crore for education employment and skilling.
- Financial Support for loans upto Rs 10 lakh for higher education in domestic institutions.
- Develop digital public infrastructure applications.
- One Crore youth to be skilled by India's top companies in 5 years.
Budget Announcements for Education Sector in FY2024
Education Sector
- Revamping teacher training through innovative teaching methods, continual professional growth, surveys, and ICT integration. District Institutes of Education and Training will evolve into active centers of excellence for this objective.
- Establishing a National Digital Library to ensure access to high-quality books across regions, languages, genres, and devices. Encouraging states to establish physical libraries at local levels and facilitate access to the National Digital Library.
- Establishing three centers of excellence dedicated to Artificial Intelligence within leading educational institutions.
Budget Announcements for Education Sector in FY2023
Education Sector
- A rise in the budget allocation for education sector was announced.
- The announcement for education in the Union Budget 2022-23 was mainly focused on digital education, the creation of a digital university, job creation, agricultural universities, skill development of programmers, etc.
Budget Announcements for Education Sector in FY2022
Education Sector
- It was announced that the Higher Education Commission of India will form an umbrella body comprising four distinct entities for standard setting, accreditation, regulation, and funding.
- Qualitative improvements announced for more than 15,000 schools to effectively implement the National Education Policy.
- An umbrella framework was announced to be established in nine cities to foster enhanced collaboration among research institutes, universities, and colleges under the central government.
- Collaborating with non-governmental organizations, private schools, and states, the plan includes establishing 100 new Sainik Schools.
- Improved access to higher education in the region, a central university to be established in Leh.
Budget Announcements for Education Sector in FY2021
Education Sector
- A 5 per cent increase in the allocation for the education sector was announced
- Proposal for Ind-SAT to attract students from Asian and African countries under the Study in India program
- Introduction of full-fledged online degree programs by top 100 institutions
Budget Announcements for Education Sector in FY2020
Education Sector
- Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced higher budgetary allocations for Education
- Proclaimed deduction of interest on education loans
- 25% additional seats in educational institutions were announced
- 10% reservation for the EWS category in educational institutions was also declared
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