New Delhi, July 12: Government has proposed to hike
the overall plan budget for higher education for the next
fiscal by Rs 2,000 crore.
This was announced by the Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee while presenting the Budget in Parliament.
Taking forward the government`s intent of having one
Central university in each of the uncovered state, an amount
of Rs 827 crore has been allocated in the Budget for the
purpose.
IITs and NITs have been allocated Rs 2,113 crore which
includes a provision of Rs 450 crore for new institutes.
Eight new Indian Institutes of Technology have been
approved, six of which, namely, IITs at Hyderabad,
Bhubaneshwar, Gandhinagar, Patna and IITs for Rajasthan and
Punjab have commenced their academic sessions from the year
2008-09.
Remaining two IITs at Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and Mandi
(Himachal Pradesh) are likely to commence the academic
programmes from 2009-2010.
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