Union Budget proposes to set up an AI centre of excellence on education
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Union Budget 2025: FM Nirmala Sithraaman proposes to set up an AI centre of excellence on education
The Union Budget’s education announcements made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday (February 1, 2025) were largely digitisation, AI and high end capabilities.
Below are the specifics.
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In addition to centres of excellence on Artificial Intelligence in agriculture, health and sustainable cities, this budget has proposed to set up an AI centre of excellence on education.
A Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme to provide digital-form of Indian language books for school and higher education. Five third-generation IITs set up after 2014 such as IIT Goa, Dharwad and so on will be supported to take in 6,500 more students. IIT Patna to have expanded hostels and other infrastructure capacity. The budget speech notes that the total number of students in 23 IITs has more than doubled -- from 65,000 to 1.35 lakh in the past 10 years.
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Ten thousand more seats in medical colleges and hospitals will be added this year as part of an initiative to add 75,000 seats in the next 10 years. The Economic Survey had said: “The WHO standard norm of 1:1000 seems to be attainable by 2030 with a conservative 50,000 doctors being licensed every year till 2030.”
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