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₹500cr AI centre, expansion of medical, IIT seats in edu push

Hindustan Times West UP

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February 02, 2025

Infrastructure expansion at the five new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to accommodate 6,500 more students, 10,000 new medical seats and an allocation of ₹500 crore to set up a Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for education.

- Press Trust of India

NEW DELHI: These are among the big announcements for the education sector in the 2025-26 budget.

The Ministry of Education has been allocated more than ₹1.28 lakh crore in the Union Budget 2025-26, higher than the revised estimate of ₹1.14 lakh crore in 2024-25. While the Higher Education department has been allocated an amount of ₹50,067 crore, the school education department has received ₹78,572 crore.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who presented her eighth straight Union Budget, also said the government will launch 'Bharatiya Bhasha Pushtak' scheme to provide digital form of Indian language books for schools and higher education.

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