EDUCATION BUDGET

About:

• A total outlay of Rs.99,300 crore has been earmarked for the education sector in 2020-21 and Rs.3000 crore for Skill Development.
  
  
• About 150 Higher Educational Institutions will start apprenticeship embedded degree/diploma courses by March 2020-21.
  
  
• National Skill Development Agency will give special thrust to infrastructure-focused skill development opportunities, the Minister explained.
  
  
• The New Education Policy will be announced soon.
  
  
• Steps will be taken to enable sourcing External Commercial Borrowings and FDI to ensure greater inflow of finance to attract talented teachers, innovate and build better labs.
  
  
• Degree level full-fledged online education programme will be started to provide quality education to students of deprived sections. However, these shall be offered only by institutions who are ranked within top 100 in the National Institutional Ranking Framework.
  
  
• Under its “Study in India” programme, an Ind-SAT is proposed to be held in Asian and African countries for benchmarking foreign candidates who receive scholarships for studying in Indian higher education centres.
  
  
• A National Police University and a National Forensic Science University have also been proposed in the domain of policing science, forensic science, cyber-forensics etc. in the Budget.