Central Government
Budget
2008-09
Education
Budget
The
total allocation for the education sector (including
NER) in 2008-09 will be Rs.34,400 crore. Of this,
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) will be provided Rs.13,100
crore; the Mid-day Meal Scheme will be provided
Rs.8,000 crore; and secondary education will be
provided Rs.4,554 crore.
Kasturba
Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme has enrolled 182,000
girls in residential schools, thus helping to
bridge the gender gap in education.
Mid Day Meal Scheme is the largest school lunch
programme in the world covering 11.4 crore children.
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
The focus of SSA will shift from access
and infrastructure at the primary level to enhancing
retention; improving quality of learning; and
ensuring access to upper primary classes
Model
School programme, with the aim of establishing
6,000 high quality model schools, will be started
in 2008-09. I propose to provide Rs.650 crore
for the new scheme.
Jawahar
Navodaya Vidyalaya
Jawahar
Navodaya Vidyalayas are quality schools. In order
to make such schools more accessible to SC and
ST students, Government plans to establish Navodaya
Vidyalayas in 20 districts that have a large concentration
of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. I propose
to set apart Rs.130 crore in 2008-09 for this
purpose.
Nehru
Yuva Kendra
123 districts do not have a Nehru Yuva Kendra.
Rs.10 crore allocated in 2008-09 to set up a Kendra
in each of these districts and to cover the recurring
expenditure in the first year.
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya
Funds (as part of SSA) provided for additional
410 Vidyalayas in educationally backward areas.
Rs. 80 crore allocated to set up new or upgrade
existing hostels attached to Balika Vidyalaya.
National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship
National
Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme to enable students
to continue their education beyond class VIII
and up to class XII.
Rs. 750 crore allocated to build up a corpus of
Rs.3,000 crore in four years. 1,00,000 Scholarship
to be awarded beginning 2008-09.
Science
and Technology Education
Ministry of Science and Technology will introduce
a scheme called Innovation in Science Pursuit
for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) that will include
scholarships for young learners (10-17 years),
scholarships for continuing science education
(17-22 years) and opportunities for research careers
(22-32 years). The budget has a provision of Rs.85
crore in 2008-09 for this inspired contribution
to building a knowledge society.
Inter connecting knowledge institutions
The government plans to Inter-connect all knowledge
institutions through an electronic digital broadband
network. This will encourage sharing of resources
and collaborative research. The budget gives a
provision to the Ministry of Information and Technology
for establishing the National Knowledge Network
to the tune of
Rs. 100 crore
Mid Day Meal Scheme
The Mid-day Meal Scheme has been extended to upper
primary classes in 3,479 educationally backward
blocks. The scheme will now be extended to upper
primary classes in Government and Government-aided
schools in all blocks in the country. This will
benefit an additional 2.5 crore children, taking
the total number of children covered under the
Scheme to 13.9 crore.
Institutes of Higher Education
India to become a knowledge society, three IISERs
at Mohali, Pune and Kolkata; and an IIIT at Kanchipuram
have started functioning. Government to set up
16 Central Universities in each of the hitherto
uncovered states; three IITs in Andhra Pradesh,
Bihar and Rajasthan; two IISERs at Bhopal and
Tiruvananthapuram; and two Schools of Planning
and Architecture
at Bhopal and Vijayawada: Rs. 5 crore grant provided
to Deccan College, Postgraduate
and Research Institute, Pune.
Scholarships
Pre- and post-matric scholarship programmes
announced in previous
Budgets for SC, ST, OBC and minorities to get
further funds in 2008-09: Scheduled
Castes (Rs.804 crore), Scheduled Tribes (Rs.195
crore), Other Backward Classes
(Rs.164 crore) and Minorities (post-matric) (Rs.100
crore).
SC
/ ST
Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship Programme
supporting SC and ST students
pursuing M.Phil and PhD courses allocated Rs.75
crore in 2008-09.
Industrial
Training Institutes
238 ITIs being upgraded under the World Bank assisted
scheme; Under the PPP scheme, 309 ITIs have been
identified in 29 States with corresponding industry
partners and agreements signed in 244 cases; Rs.750
crore set apart in 2008-09 in anticipation of
upgrading 300 more ITIs.
Sainik Schools
Rs.44 crore allocated to the 22 Sainik
Schools at the rate of Rs.2 crore each, for immediate
improvement of infrastructure including classrooms,
laboratories, libraries and facilities for physical
education.
SCHOOL
EDUCATION AND LITERACY
Rs
13100 cr for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
Rs 8000 cr for National Programme of Mid-Day Meals
in schools.
Rs 2185 cr for the scheme of Universal Access
and Quality at Secondary Stage (SUCCESS).
HIGHER
EDUCATION
Rs
3440 cr for University Grants Commission - includes
an allocation of Rs. 875 crore for implementation
of the recommendations of Oversight Committee.
Rs 3205 cr for Technical Education, including
Rs.1647 crore for implementation of the recommendations
of Oversight Committee.
Rs 502 cr for National Mission on Information
and Communication Technology
Education
in Budget 2007-08
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Mid-day Meal Scheme
In allocating resources, school education must
have primacy. Hence, I propose to increase the
allocation for school education by about 35 per
cent from Rs.17,133 crore in 2006-07 to Rs.23,142
crore in 2007-08.
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Education
in Budget 2006-07
1,000 new
residential schools for girls from SC, ST, OBC
and minority communities to be opened in 2006-07
Rs.128 crore provided and an additional sum of
Rs.172 crore to be provided during the year
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Central
Government
National
Educational Policy
National
Policy on Education, 1986 (As modified in 1992)
Schemes
Department of Higher Education
Education
Guarantee Scheme (EGS) / Alternative & Innovative
Education (AIE)
National
Literacy Mission Schemes
Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan
Overview
of Education
Overview
of Technical Education
Overview
of Higher Education
Right
to Education Bill - 2005
United
Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012)
United
Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
(2005-2014)
Jansankhya
Sthirata Kosh
UGC
Universities for Grants 1975
UGC
Technological Universities 1978
UGC
Agricultural Universities 1975
UGC
Open Universities 1988
UGC
Establishment and Maintenance 1985
UGC
Institutions for Grants 1975
UGC
Information by Universities 1979
All
India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)
Central
Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
Central
Tibetan Schools Administration (CTSA)
Kendriya
Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS)
National
Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
Department
of Education, Government of India
Department
of Higher Education of the Government of India
Department
of School Education and Literacy
Education
and Research Network (ERNET)
Educational
Consultants India Limited (EDCIL)
Geology
Database, Education and Research
German
Academic Exchange Service
Homi
Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)
Indian
Association for the Study of Population (IASP)
Indian
Association of Social Science Institutions
Indian
Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management
(IISWBM)
Indian
Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)
MIT
Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC)
Maulana
Azad Education Foundation
Nalanda
Digital Library, National Institute of Technology,
Calicut
National
Bal Bhavan
National
Book Trust
National
Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
National
Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology
National
Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL)
National
Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL)
National
Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)
National
Board of Examinations
National Literacy Mission
Navodaya
Vidyalaya Samiti
National
Institute of Open Schooling
Sakshat
- Education Portal, Government of India
Training
Division, NIC
United
Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
(UNESCO)
Commisssion
for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT)
University
Grants Commission (UGC)
Board
of Practical Training (BOPT), Easter Region
Board
of Apprenticeship Training (Southern Region)
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