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Budget 2021: Allocations to centrally-funded medical colleges have risen slightly over this year’s budget estimates but not revised ones.
Academics said that the government is stepping away from strengthening the public education system and is encouraging privatisation.
Union Budget: Other scholarship schemes have seen small increases in budget and the post-matric scheme for OBCs is facing a Rs 115 crore cut.
Union Budget 2021: Funds for school education were cut by close to Rs 7,000 crores in the revised estimates for the financial year 2020.
Budget 2021: Major schemes such as Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan have seen funds cut after the 2020-21 revised estimates saw amounts reduced.
Budget 2021: Overall, the education ministry is facing cuts to the tune of Rs 6,000 crore.
Budget 2021 has given the Centre's ambitious higher education funding reform project, HEFA, just Rs 1 crore.
Union Budget 2021: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has also announced Rs 50,000 crore for five years for the National Research Foundation
Union Budget 2021 has allocated funds for 750 Eklavya Model Residential Schools in tribal areas.
Union Budget 2021: Students, teachers of medicine, at the forefront of battling COVID-19, demand an emergency fund for medical colleges.
