TIL Desk/National/Patna/ Bihar’s budgetary outlay for education has jumped from just over Rs 4,000 crore in 2005-06 to Rs 33,000 crore in 2018-19, which is indicative of the government’s resolve to provide all its citizens with adequate opportunities for learning, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said here today.
Launching the newly-established Pataliputra University, which has been carved out of Magadh University and comprises nearly 100 colleges, the chief minister said the state was spending 20 per cent of its overall budget on education and said his government was aiming at raising the gross enrolment ratio to more than 30 per cent as against the national average of 24 per cent.
Kumar also said as part of the government’s seven resolves, medical and engineering colleges, polytechnics, ITIs and institutes for paramedics were being opened across the state. “Pataliputra University is yet another step taken by us in the direction of doing something new while drawing inspiration from our history. Earlier, we have established Chanakya Law University, Chandragupt Institute of Management and Aryabhatta Knowledge University with the same spirit, he said.
