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Women's Day: AP chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced support for women entrepreneurs via Ratan Tata Innovation Hub.
"I appeal to the Tamil Nadu chief minister to start the engineering and medical education in Tamil in the state for the benefit of students," the union home minister said.
According to reports, at least nine new universities that are on the radar are -- Koppal, Bagalkot, Haveri, Kodagu, Hassan, Chamarajanagar, Nrupathunga, Mandya and the Maharani cluster.
Health minister JP Nadda bats for including latest tech advancements in medical education curriculum
The Union health minister said emphasised the need for adding soft skills to increase the empathy, ethics and communication skills of the medical students and said that "the biggest investment is the investment in people".
Addressing the audience through the video conferencing, Prime Minister urged all the stakeholders to come forward in the capacity building and talent nurturing foundation for the country's progress.
BJP MLA Raj Sinha in the assembly said that 3.81 lakh students are enrolled in these single-teacher schools.
The government has allocated Rs 15,198.35 crore for primary and secondary education department, while Rs 2,409.20 crore has been earmarked for the higher and technical education department.
Raising the matter during the Zero Hour, Samajwadi Party’s Sangram Yadav alleged that the government is discriminating against backward classes, Dalits and minorities in the appointments in various state universities.
VP Jagdeep Dhankhar also called education the most impactful transformative mechanism that brings about equality, while speaking at the annual day function of KPB Hinduja College, Mumbai.
Piyush Goyal emphasized on setting up of 18 new medical colleges and introduction of foreign language programs in universities to prepare local students for global opportunities.
