Ministry of Finance

Innovative Fund for Secondary Education to Encourage Local Innovation

Posted On: 01 FEB 2017 2:03PM by PIB Delhi

The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley while presenting the General Budget 2017-18 in Parliament today proposed  to create innovative fund for secondary education for ensuring universal access, gender parity and quality improvement. Delivering his Budget Speech, the Finance Minister said this will include ICT enabled learning, transformation and the focus will be on 3479 educationally backward blocks.

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DSM/ST/RS….GB 2017-18


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