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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed the need to strengthen the country’s higher education system so as to attract foreign students to India.
At Rs 94,854 crore, the allocation for the education sector in the Budget is Rs 1,000 crore more than what was provided for in the interim Budget.
Compared to the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2018-19, which spent Rs 83,626 crore on education, education has been given Rs 11,000 crore more in this Budget.
Of the Rs 94,854 crore in the Budget, Rs 38,317 crore will be given to the Department of Higher Education, while Rs 400 crore has been set
