Education Budget 2025: New 10,000 Seats In Medical, 5000 In IITs, Key Announcements You Must Know
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Education Budget 2025: The government has added almost 1.1 lakh undergraduate and post-graduate medical education seats in the past 10 years, an increase of 130%, Sitharaman said
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2025-26 in the Lok Sabha. (PTI)
In the Union Education Budget 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that 10,000 seats will be added across medical colleges next year. The government aims to add 75,000 seats in the next five years. The move is being made to address the growing demand for healthcare professionals in the country.
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The government has added almost 1.1 lakh undergraduate and post-graduate medical education seats in the past 10 years, an increase of 130%, Sitharaman said. “In the next year, 10,000 additional seats will be added in medical colleges and hospitals towards the goal of adding 75,000 medical education seats in the next five years,” she added.
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Education Budget 2025: Key Announcements You Must Know
— 50,000 Atal Tinkering Labs will be set up in Government schools in the next 5 years.
— Broadband connectivity (Bharat Net) will be provided to all Government secondary schools and primary health centres in rural areas
— Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme will introduced to provide digital-form Indian language books for school and higher education.
— Additional infrastructure will be created in the 5 IITs started a@er 2014 to facilitate educaRon for 6,500 more students. (Total number of students in 23 IITs has increased 100 per cent from 65,000 to 1.35 lakh in the past 10 years.)
— A Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for education will be set up with a total outlay of ₹500 crore.
— In the next year, 10,000 additional seats will be added in medical colleges and hospitals, towards the goal of adding 75,000 seats in the next 5 years. (Govt has added almost 1.1 lakh UG and PG medical education seats in 10 years, an increase of 130 per cent.
