New IIT, IIM set up every year since 2014: Defence minister Rajnath Singh

NEW DELHI: Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that a “new IIT and IIM has been set up every year since 2014” and that the central government is ensuring a major and positive change in the education sector by focusing on primary, higher and medical education.

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“Today there are 23 IITs and 20 IIMs in the country. A new university has been established every week since 2014 and two new colleges have been established every day. As a result, there has been a substantial increase in the number of students pursuing higher education,” the defence minister said during the first alumni meet of Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University.

“To build a self-reliant India, it is very important to have self-confidence in the youth of the country. Confidence comes only when the youth of the country are knowledgeable as well as character. The new National Education Policy has been framed with this in mind,” he said.

हमारी केंद्र सरकार प्राथमिक, उच्च और चिकित्सा शिक्षा पर ध्यान केंद्रित करते हुए शिक्षा क्षेत्र मे एक बड़ा और सकारात्मक परिवर्तन सुनिश्चित कर रही है। 2014 से हर साल एक नया IIT और IIM स्थापित किया गया है: रक्षा मंत्री

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Saying that India should invest more in education, the minister said, “We should remember that Indian Nationals are the ones who run the biggest multinationals of the world. Silicon Valley, even though it is in America, but those who run it are IIT graduates.”

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Lauding the DDU Gorakhpur University, he said, “The Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University has nurtured the Indian education tradition like River Rapti for the past several decades, and wherever I go in the world I am identified as a student of the Gorakhpur University.”