Budget 2025: More seats for medical colleges, additional infra for IITs & other key announcements
Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2025-26, outlining key priorities to accelerate economic growth, ensure inclusive development, support industries, and enhance household sentiment.
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The budget also emphasized increasing spending power for India's growing middle class.
She said «Union Budget 2025-26 with an effort to a. Accelerate growth b. Secure inclusive development c. Invigorate society and industry d. Uplift household sentiment and e. Enhance spending on power of India's rising middle class».
Here are the key announcements for the education sector:
- Next year 10,000 seats will be added in medical colleges and hospitals; 75,000 seats to be added in next 5 years.
- Govt to create additional infrastructure in five IITs; to expand IIT Patna
- The government aims to add 75,000 seats in medical colleges and hospitals over the next five years.
- It will also facilitate the establishment of daycare cancer centers in all district hospitals within the next three years.
- A center of excellence in artificial intelligence for education will be established.
Last year's recap:
In 2024-25, the Ministry of Education was allocated Rs 1,20,628 crore. This was a decrease of 7% from the revised estimate for 2023-24.
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