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UP Budget: Boost to Sanskrit education; New IIIT, Sainik Schools on cards
To give a boost to education, the Uttar Pradesh budget for 2019-20 has made a provision of ₹314.51 crore for promotion of Sanskrit education and ₹26.57 crore for new Sainik Schools in the state.
To give a boost to education, the Uttar Pradesh budget for 2019-20 has made a provision of ₹314.51 crore for promotion of Sanskrit education and ₹26.57 crore for new Sainik Schools in the state.
The government has also made a budgetary provision of ₹10 crore for setting up an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Lucknow.
An amount of ₹242 crore has been earmarked to provide grant-in-aid to Sanskrit Pathshalas in the state. Another ₹30 crore has been allocated for government-aided Sanskrit schools and degree colleges across the state.
A provision of ₹21 crore has also been made for Kashi Vidyapeeth to promote Sanskrit education and ₹21.51 crore has been allocated for Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya.
It is the third budget of the Yogi government in Uttar Pradesh after having come to power in March 2017. The total budgetary allocations made for financial year 2019-20 was ₹4.79 lakh crore, which is 12 per cent higher than the previous year’s budget.
LUCKNOW TO GET IIIT
To strengthen technical education, an Indian Institute of Information Technology will be set up in Lucknow on public-private partnership (PPP) model. The state government has made a budgetary provision of ₹10 crore for the institute.
Two new engineering colleges have also been proposed in Mirzapur ( ₹8 crore) and Pratapgarh ( ₹4 crore).
A provision of ₹11 crore has been made for the Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur.
BASIC EDUCATION
The government has made a budgetary provision of ₹18,485 crore for Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan.
A provision of ₹5 crore has been made to set up primary and upper primary schools in Vantangiya villages.
For Mid-Day Meal programme, the government has set aside ₹2,275 crore.
Students at primary and upper primary schools may hope to get better infrastructure as the government has made a provision of ₹500 crore for the development of infrastructural facilities in primary and upper primary schools.
The state government has allocated ₹300 crore for providing a pair of shoes, two pairs of socks and a sweater free of cost to the students of Class I-VII studying in schools run by UP Basic Education Board.
An amount of ₹40 crore has been set aside for free distribution of uniforms to students. Another ₹110 crore has been earmarked for distribution of school bags in 2019-20.
SECONDARY EDUCATION
The budget has also proposed to set up Sainik Schools in the state at secondary education level at a cost of ₹26.57 crore.
A provision of ₹10 crore has also been made to set up Government Inter Colleges (for boys and girls).
HIGHER EDUCATION
The government has also made a provision of ₹50 crore for wi-fi facility in all the colleges and universities. The budget also provides ₹160 crore for various works under the National Higher Education Campaign.
A provision of ₹63 lakh has been made under the infrastructural head of Gurushri Gorakshnath Shodh Peeth at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University.
ATAL GOOD GOVERNANCE CHAIR AT LU
To establish Atal Good Governance Chair at the University of Lucknow, a provision of ₹2 crore has been made in the budget.
Provision of ₹5 crore has also been made to set up a centre of excellence at DAV College, Kanpur, in the memory of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
The state government has proposed ₹10 crore to set up a university in Saharanpur district.
This was the third budget of the Yogi Adityanath government after coming to power in UP in March 2017.
The total budgetary allocation of ₹4.79 lakh crore has been made for financial year 2019-20. This is 12 per cent higher than the previous year’s budget.
