New Delhi: The government proposes a sum of Rs 99,300 crores for education for the year 2020-21, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
“We propose Rs 99,300 crores for the education sector in 2020-21 and Rs 3000 crores for skill development,” she said.
Sitharaman also added that a New Education Policy will be announced soon and “external commercial borrowings and FDI to be leveraged to improve the education system.”
“Degree-level full-fledged online education programme to be offered by institutes in top 100 in National Institutional Ranking Framework,” she added.
