Boost for Sanskrit education, NIIT on cards

LUCKNOW: To give a boost to education, the Uttar Pradesh budget for 2019-20 has made a provision of Rs 314.51 crore for promotion of Sanskrit education and Rs 26.57 crore for new Sainik Schools in the state.

The government has also made a budgetary provision of Rs 10 crore for setting up an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Lucknow.

An amount of Rs 242 crore has been earmarked to provide grant-in-aid to Sanskrit Pathshalas in the state. Another Rs 30 crore has been allocated for government-aided Sanskrit schools and degree colleges across the state. A provision of Rs 21 crore has also been made for Kashi Vidyapeeth to promote Sanskrit education and Rs 21.51 crore has been allocated for Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya.

To strengthen technical education, an Indian Institute of Information Technology will be set up in Lucknow on publicprivate partnership (PPP) model. The state government has made a budgetary provision of Rs 10 crore for the institute. A provision of Rs 11 crore has been made for the Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur. For basic education, the government has made a budgetary provision of Rs 18,485 crore for Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan. A provision of Rs 5 crore has been made to set up primary and upper primary schools in Vantangiya villages.

Students at primary and upper primary schools may hope to get better infrastructure as the government has made a provision of Rs 500 crore for the development of infrastructural facilities in primary and upper primary schools. The state government has allocated Rs 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.

SECONDARY EDU

The budget has also proposed to set up Sainik Schools in the state at secondary education level at a cost of Rs 26.57 crore.

A provision of Rs 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 Rs 50 crore for wi-fi facility in all the colleges and universities. The budget also provides Rs 160 crore for various works under the National Higher Education Campaign. A provision of Rs 63 lakh has been made under the infrastructural head of Gurushri Gorakshnath Shodh Peeth at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University.