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‘Agriculture investment to be increased’
Underlining the UPA government’s renewed thrust on social and human development for the remaining part of its tenure, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced major initiatives on education and social security fronts.
These include setting up 6,000 high-quality schools, one in each block of the country, an extensive programme for universalizing secondary education, helping states set up colleges in 370 low-enrolment districts, 30 new central universities, five Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, eight Indian Institutes of Technology, seven Indian Institutes of Management and 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology.
The prime minister, in his Independence Day address to the nation, said these initiatives would generate new educational opportunities for the country’s youth and ensure that at least a fifth of children go to college as compared with one-tenth at present.
The prime minister said the government would soon launch a vocational education mission (which he spoke about last year) under which 1,600 industrial training institutes (ITIs) and polytechnics, 10,000 vocational schools and 50,000 skill development centers would be set up. “We will ensure that annually, over 10 million students get vocational training, which is a fourfold increase from today’s level.” Singh said the government would seek “active help” of the private sector so that the initiative led to job creation as well.
Promising more scholarships for the needy, Singh said he was keen that a “major revolution in the field of modern education” occurs in the next few years.
Singh’s speech, which was devoid of any significant reference to the India-US nuclear agreement or the country’s relationship with Pakistan, mentioned that in the coming years, the government’s main emphasis would be agriculture, employment generation and industrialization.
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