Education in India is growing at a very rapid rate. Time and again various initiatives are taken by the government to improve the standard of education in India.
GOVERNMENT ALLOCATES Rs. 2113 CRORE FOR IITs & NITs:
- Government has proposed full interest subsidy scheme on education loans for poor students pursuing technical and professional courses in approved institutions.
- The scheme will cover loans taken by such students from scheduled banks to pursue any approved course in technical and professional streams at recognized institutes in the country
- However only those students whose family income is less than Rs. 4.5 Lakhs per annum will be eligible under this scheme
- The higher education budget is pegged at Rs. 15,429 cores including a planned allocation of Rs 9600 core.
- It has allocated Rs. 2113 Crore for IITs & NITs pan- India.
- The UGC has been allocated Rs. 4374.95 crore which includes expenditure for both central & deemed universities.
- The proposed allocation for Panjab university has been pegged at Rs. 50 crore to improve the facilities and upgradation.
PAN IIT ALUMNI TEAM PRESENTED 5 POINT ACTION PLAN TO REFORM HIGHER EDUCATION:
- The alumni has presented a white paper outlining 5 point agenda and set ambitious target for country for 2022 that entails 70 crore globally employable workforce comprising 20 crore university graduates and 50 crore vocationally skilled people.
- The 5 pronged action plan includes implementation of comprehensive reforms in policies & governance; mandating quality; enabling quantum improvement in faculty service conditions; deployment of technology for teaching & collaborative research & establishing an active industry academicia interface.
The alumni chairman Mr. Ashok Desai – founder of Mastek Ltd shared that government needs to encourage public- private partnership, FDi , quality university education, independent accredition for rating system & autonomy in governance in order to achieve the set targets.
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