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Budget 2023: The ministry of social justice and empowerment manages some of the largest scholarship schemes; most have seen minor increases.
Children’s Budget 2023: Funds for the National Child Labour Project cut by 33 percent.
Budget 2023: AIIMS Delhi saw a cut of 6% but Rs 6,835 crore has been allocated to setting up new AIIMS.
Budget 2023 Analysis: The pre-matric scholarship and higher education scholarship for minorities had their budgets drastically reduced.
Education Budget 2023: IIMs have had their funds halved; budgets for central universities, IITs, NITs, IISERS and IIITs have risen.
Education Budget 2023: The allocations to SSA, mid-day meal scheme, the biggest school education schemes, have risen slightly.
Education Budget: Accountability Initiative’s budget brief on mid-day meal scheme says cooking costs should have risen by 23.7%, not 9.6%.
Budget 2023: Accountability Initiative’s analysis shows that releases have been slow. SSA accounted for 36% of funds for education ministry in 2022-23.
The Modi Government blocked access to a highly critical BBC documentary on him just this week. Attempts to screen it in university campuses have been scuttled.
New UGC regulations have streamlined the process of partnering with foreign universities to offer dual, joint or twinning degree programmes.
