Union Budget Education Live: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on February 1 present the Union Budget 2026-27 in which she will also highlight the budget for the education sector in the new financial year. In last year’s education budget, the BJP government had promised that in the next 5 years, 75,000 medical seats will be added, and the government will give a boost to the infrastructure of IITs set up after 2014. In 2025, Central government allocated Rs 1,28,650.05 crore, marking a 6.65 per cent increase from 2024.
As per the economic survey 2025-26 tabled in Parliament on Thursday (January 29) by Sitharaman, India has achieved near-universal enrolment at the school level, however, the gains in enrolment have not translated uniformly into learning outcomes particularly beyond the elementary stage, where net enrolment rate (NER) remains low at 52.2 per cent.
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