The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman along with the Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Anurag Singh Thakur arrives at Parliament House to present the General Budget 2020-21, in New Delhi on February 01, 2020. 150 Higher Educational Institutions to start apprenticeship embedded degree/diploma courses by March, 2021; Special bridge courses for …

After the Interim Budget (vote on account) 2019 presented in February this year, the full budget for this fiscal was presented in the Parliament by the new Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, who for record is the first ever full time woman finance minister of India, on July 5.    Education sector has been allocated Rs 94,853.64 crore in the union …

Barely two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s  Pariksha Pe Charcha where he tried  to reach out to students, youth and parents over exam stress and related issues , the interim budget presented by his government on February 1 didn’t show a similar inclination as education has been almost omitted from budget vocabulary.    Writing in the Indian Express, Ashok …