Budget 2020 - Education Budget highlights

1. Sector: Education & Skills
Key Highlights:
Presented by: Hitansh Shrimal Mitesh Kaushik Sonia Priyal

2. Highlights of Budget 19-20
(Education Sector and Skill Development)
● Total Outlay - Rs 94,853.64
● Government to start ‘Study in India' programme to attract foreign
students.
● Govt to focus on new-age skills for youth to get high-paying jobs.
● National Sports Education Board under Khelo India scheme.
● Dedicated Television Channel For Startups.
● Setting Up of National Research Foundation Source – The Times of India

3. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education)
Source – The Times of India
Total Outlay
Rs 99311.52 Cr
Higher Education
Rs 39466.52 Cr
School Education & Literacy
Department
Rs 59845 Cr

4. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Skill Development)
Source – The Times of India
Total Outlay
3002.21 Crore
In the higher education sector in particular, the outlay for the
improvement of the salary scale of teachers has been hiked
from Rs 1,800 crore in FY20 to Rs 1,900 crore in FY21.

5. EXPECTATIONS
• Reduction on GST
• Scholarships for the higher education level
• The synergy between the proposed NEP and the allocations
• Subsidized Education Loan
• Narrowing the loopholes of education and employment
Source – India Today

6. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
Entrepreneurship:
The FM proposed to set up an investment
clearance cell for entrepreneurs to provide pre-
investment advisory, information related to
land banks and facilitate clearances.
Apprenticeship
embedded courses
150 higher educational institutions will
start apprenticeship embedded
degree/diploma courses by March, 2021.
Source – Business Today

7. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
Online Education
Programmes
Degree level online education programmes for
students of deprived sections of the society as
well as those who do not have access to higher
education.
Source – Business Today

8. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
Financing Education
Infrastructure
Steps will be taken to enable sourcing External
Commercial Borrowings and FDI to be encouraged
for financing education infrastructure.
Source – Business Today

9. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
Courses for nurse and
para medical staff
Special bridge courses for nurses, para medical
staff and care givers to enhance their
employability.
Source – Business Today

10. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
Internships for fresh
engineers:
The government will also start a program whereby
urban local bodies across the country would
provide internship opportunities to fresh engineers
for a period of up to one year.
Source – Business Today

11. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
Study in India
programme:
Under its "Study in India" programme, IND-SAT
exam will be held in Asian and African countries to
provide scholarships for foreign students to study
in Indian universities.
Source – Business Today

12. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
National Police University
and a National Forensic
Science University:
A National Police University and a National
Forensic Science University have also been
proposed in the domain of policing science,
forensic science, cyber-forensics etc. in the
budget.
Source – Business Today

13. Highlights of Budget 20-21
(Education and Skill Development)
Courses for Resident
Doctors:
Government will encourage large hospitals to
offer resident doctors DNB/FNB (Diplomat of
National Board/ Fellowship of National Board)
courses under the National Board of
Examinations.
Source – Business Today

14. OPPORTUNITIES
• The National Education Policy will be rolled out soon and the Government has received
over 2 lakh suggestions regarding the same.
• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) would be encouraged in the education sector.
• The National Police University and National Forensic Science University proposed.
• The online education program at degree level to be provided to increase the quality
education.
• The Government to start a bridge course to help aspirants to meet the demand for
teachers, nurses, paramedical staff and caregivers at foreign countries.
• The courses will be offered by the institutes in the top 100 in the National Institutional
Ranking Framework (NIRF).
Source – Daily Hunt

15. FDI & PPP Model
• It will open gates for reputed foreign universities to set up campuses in India.
• It will bring more visiting faculties from these reputed overseas universities
to India.
• Right now, 100 percent FDI is allowed in the education sector.
• Sitharaman proposed to attach a medical college to an existing district
hospital in PPP mode due to shortage of qualified medical doctors and
general practitioners
Source – Economic Times

16. What needs to be done
• Public classroom and school construction : especially in rural areas where
Private suppliers are unlikely to venture
• Training & Hiring of more Teachers: and rationalizing their deployment, so that
supply better matches demand
• Investments: in curriculum revision, technology and examination reforms to make
schooling more relevant
• Public information campaigns: to change attitudes about the benefits of
schooling and delayed marriages
Source – Economic Times
1 - Policy Level Initiatives

17. What needs to be done
• Programs to improve the internal efficiency and quality of secondary
education: so as to increase the no and quality of graduates
• Promoting ICT’s: So that students can take greater control of their learning and
skills acquisition from sources other than the teachers and textbook.
Source – Economic Times
2 - Government Level Initiatives

18. Posted by The Daily Riff December 10, 2010

19. Conclusion
Aspirational
India
Economic
Development
Caring
Society
• Greater inflow of finance to
attract talented teachers
• Digital India E-learning
scheme has seen a slash of
over ₹100 crore
• Degree level full-fledged
online education programme
to be started
• Under “Beti Bachao and Beti
Padhao” the gross enrollment
number of girls are higher than
boys
• Women Entrepreneurs are also
encouraged
• The main focus of this
Budget was to build skilled
India by providing them
Internships, Bridge
courses & Digital degrees.
• This will further help in
boosting the economic
development in near future