Education Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the interim budget in Parliament today. The education sector also has many expectations from this budget. What new announcements will be made in this area will become clear in some time. Meanwhile, he told that many big changes have taken place in the field of education. Many achievements were talked about on this occasion. This mainly includes the establishment of 3000 new ITIs and training given to 1.8 crore youth under Skill India. Apart from this, 54 lakh candidates were re-skilled and up-skilled.
Established from schools to higher educational institutions
NEP has made many changes in the education sector. PM Shree School is providing quality education to children. If we talk about higher educational institutions, 7 IITs, 16 IIITs, 7 IIMs, 16 AIIMS and 390 universities have been established.
employment opportunities increased
The youth were also supported in the field of employment with the help of various schemes. Start-up Guarantee Scheme, Fund of Funds and Startup India helped the youth a lot in getting employment. With their help many youth could start work.
New medical colleges will open
While presenting the budget, the Finance Minister also said that the government plans to open new government medical colleges in the country. A committee will soon be set up in this regard which will deal with the issues related to this. Under various departments, it will also be seen how to utilize the existing hospital infrastructure.
Maximum budget was received last year
If we talk about education sector, the highest allocation was received in the budget for the year 2023-24. This year, Rs 1,12,898.97 crore was given for the education sector. This time many schemes given to the youth were talked about. All the benefits of NEP were also mentioned.
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