January 11, 2026 05:18 am (IST)
Budget:Innovative fund for secondary education to encourage local innovation
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley while presenting the General Budget 2017-18 in Parliament today proposed to create innovative fund for secondary education for ensuring universal access, gender parity and quality improvement.
Delivering his Budget Speech, the Finance Minister said this will include ICT enabled learning, transformation and the focus will be on 3479 educationally backward blocks.
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