Five new IITs & five new IIMS proposed
Updated: Jul 10, 2014 02:41:26pm
New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) The Government will set-up five more IITs in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Similarly, five new IIMs will be set-up in the States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra.
For this, a sum of Rs 500 crore has been allocated in the Budget.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the country needs a large number of Centres of higher learning which are world class and accordingly declare to set-up Jai Prakash Narayan National Centre for Excellence in humanities in Madhya Pradesh.
He announced “Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya New Teachers Training Programme” to infuse new training tools and motivate teachers with an initial corpus of Rs 500 crore. He said that for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan a provision of Rs28, 635 crore has been made while for Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan Rs 4,966 crore have been allocated. The Government will also strive to provide toilets and drinking water in all the girls school in first phase, the Minister added.
To take advantage of the reach of the IT, the Finance Minister allocated a sum of Rs 100 crore for setting up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK) and online courses.
“I also intend to set up five more IITs in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala,” Jaitley said in his Budget speech today. Five IIMs would be set up in the States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra, he added.
Government also proposes to ease and simplify norms to facilitate education loans for higher studies, Jaitley said. (KNN/SD)
For this, a sum of Rs 500 crore has been allocated in the Budget.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the country needs a large number of Centres of higher learning which are world class and accordingly declare to set-up Jai Prakash Narayan National Centre for Excellence in humanities in Madhya Pradesh.
He announced “Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya New Teachers Training Programme” to infuse new training tools and motivate teachers with an initial corpus of Rs 500 crore. He said that for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan a provision of Rs28, 635 crore has been made while for Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan Rs 4,966 crore have been allocated. The Government will also strive to provide toilets and drinking water in all the girls school in first phase, the Minister added.
To take advantage of the reach of the IT, the Finance Minister allocated a sum of Rs 100 crore for setting up virtual classrooms as Communication Linked Interface for Cultivating Knowledge (CLICK) and online courses.
“I also intend to set up five more IITs in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala,” Jaitley said in his Budget speech today. Five IIMs would be set up in the States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Odisha and Maharashtra, he added.
Government also proposes to ease and simplify norms to facilitate education loans for higher studies, Jaitley said. (KNN/SD)
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