India’s first post-Covid-19 Budget 2021 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was momentous in more ways than one. It was the first one to be digitally presented on a tablet, paving the way for several announcements in the way of digitization across sectors.
The Budget focused on six key pillars namely, health and wellbeing, infrastructure, inclusive development, development of human capital, R&D, and minimum government, maximum governance, with these sectors seeing maximum announcements.
The education sector was allotted Rs 93,224 crore for 2021, with Rs 54,873 crore for school education and literacy and Rs 38,350 crore for the higher education sector. At 600 million, Indian youth comprise over half the population and the sheer number of announcements in the education sector underlined its importance in shaping the future of the nation.
Source: India Today
