Centre and states are working together to increase public investment in the education sector to 6% of the GDP at the earliest, confirms the government.
The government has said that the Centre and states are jointly working to hike public investment in the education sector to 6% of the GDP at the earliest. The budget for education has crossed INR 1 lakh crore for the first time in 2022-23 fiscal.
Junior education minister Subhas Sarkar said the government was steadily working towards achieving a public investment of 6% of GDP in the education sector.
He said, "This is the first time in education, the budget has crossed INR 1 lakh crore,"
Primary strategy of NEP is to provide maximum importance to local languages
While replying to queries during the question hour, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan apprised the Rajya Sabha that one of the primary strategies of the National Education Policy (NEP) was to provide "utmost importance to the local language or mother tongue to promote critical thinking" among students, as reported by TOI.
He said that the entire focus of the NEP and Samagra Shiksha is to improve the quality of education with the reduced dropout ratio and PM Poshan Abhiyan is also an ambitious programme in that direction.
"Upgradation of education quality, teachers education quality, all these we are very much focussed on, in consultation with the states. We are committed to improve the quality of teaching and learning process up to the 21st century expectations," he added.
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