Union budget: 10,000 additional scientific seats, 6,500 greater in IITS in edu push
Finance minister nirmala sitharaman, while providing the union price range 2025-26 on saturday, introduced that the authorities will add 6,500 extra seats at indian institutes of technology (IIT) and 10,000 extra scientific seats subsequent 12 months to accommodate greater students.
Sitharaman stated the government will upload engineering seats at IITS that began functioning after 2014 and enlarge hostel and infrastructural capacity of IIT patna.
She said the government will establish five national centres of excellence (coe) for skilling, a brand new coe in synthetic intelligence (ai) for training, and 50,000 atal tinkering labs at government colleges together with broadband connectivity to all government secondary faculties under bharatnet. Sitharaman earmarked Rs 1,28,650.05 crore for the education ministry inside the fy 2025-26, such as Rs 78,572.1 crore for the branch of faculty education and literacy and Rs 50,077.ninety five crore for branch of better education. "total range of students in IITS in 2023 has improved via 100% from sixty five,000 to one.35 lakh inside the beyond 10 years. Extra infrastructure may be created inside the 5 IITS began after 2014 to facilitate schooling for 6,500 extra students," she said.
The 5 IITS set up through centre after 2014 are tirupati, palakkad, bhilai, jammu, and goa. The government in 2016 converted ism dhanbad into iit (ism) dhanbad. In the next five years, 10,000 fellowships for technology studies in IITS and indian institute of science (iisc) will be supplied, sitharaman introduced. The government has also allotted Rs eleven,349 crore - eight.four% higher than the revised estimate of Rs 10,467.13 crore in fy 2024-25. This apart, a hundred and 10,000 ug and pg scientific schooling seats in 10 years that's an increase of a hundred thirty%.
Prateek maheshwari, co-founder of training institute physicswallah (pw) said the addition of scientific seats over 5 years is a "crucial step in decreasing medical student outflow to other nations" in absence of sufficient government clinical seats.
"The fourth coe in ai for schooling objectives to revolutionise India's educational machine from pre-primary to expert and research tiers. In step with the complete implementation of the national schooling coverage 2020, this transformative initiative will combine ai-pushed improvements to enhance teaching, assessment, and policymaking..." the ministry of education said in a statement. Sitharaman introduced the establishment of a brand new coe in ai for education with a complete outlay of Rs 500 crore.
Somak raychaudhury, vice-chancellor, ashoka university, termed the price range a "modern one prioritising ability development, ai literacy, and studies." "through collaborating with top higher training institutions, those centres will foster interdisciplinary synergies, enhancing ai and technical expertise among indian teens, boosting employability, and advancing india as a worldwide schooling and ai hub," he stated.
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