education: Working to hike investment in education to 6% of GDP: Govt – Times of India
NEW DELHI: With the budget for education crossing Rs 1 lakh crore for the first time in the 2022-23 fiscal, the government on Wednesday said the Centre and the states are working together to increase public investment in the sector to 6% of the GDP at the earliest.
Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan also told Rajya Sabha, while replying to queries during the question hour, that one of the primary strategies of the National Education Policy (NEP) was to give “utmost importance to the local language or mother tongue to promote critical thinking” among students.
Asked about the goal set in the NEP to achieve public investment on education equivalent to 6% of the GDP, junior education minister Subhas Sarkar said the government was steadily working towards that end. “This is the first time in education, the budget has crossed Rs 1 lakh crore,” he said.
Pradhan, in turn, said the entire focus of the NEP and Samagra Shiksha is to improve the quality of education, with the dropout ratio being reduced, and PM Poshan Abhiyan is also an ambitious programme in that direction.
“Upgradation of education quality, teachers education quality, all these we are very much focussed on, in consultation with the states. We are committed to improve the quality of teaching and learning process up to the 21st century expectations,” he said.
Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan also told Rajya Sabha, while replying to queries during the question hour, that one of the primary strategies of the National Education Policy (NEP) was to give “utmost importance to the local language or mother tongue to promote critical thinking” among students.
Asked about the goal set in the NEP to achieve public investment on education equivalent to 6% of the GDP, junior education minister Subhas Sarkar said the government was steadily working towards that end. “This is the first time in education, the budget has crossed Rs 1 lakh crore,” he said.
Pradhan, in turn, said the entire focus of the NEP and Samagra Shiksha is to improve the quality of education, with the dropout ratio being reduced, and PM Poshan Abhiyan is also an ambitious programme in that direction.
“Upgradation of education quality, teachers education quality, all these we are very much focussed on, in consultation with the states. We are committed to improve the quality of teaching and learning process up to the 21st century expectations,” he said.
