BJP on education
Primary and Secondary Education
• Aims to open another 200 such Kendriya Vidayalalas and Navodaya Vidayalas by 2024
• Enable investment of Rs 1 lakh crore in higher education through Revitalising of Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE)
• The BJP aims to focus on teachers training and capacity building as a key factor in achieving these learning outcomes
Higher Education
• BJP has promised to work towards increasing the number of seats in premier management, engineering and law institutes by at least 50% in the next 5 years
• To create 50 quality higher educational institutions and Institutions of Eminence institutions by 2024
• Will promote a programme for ‘Study in India’, which will focus on bringing foreign students to study in higher educational institutions in our country and make India a major destination for education for foreign students
Congress on education
Primary and Secondary Education
• Congress promised that school education from Class I to Class XII in public schools shall be compulsory and free
• The party will introduce a single-window system for education loans and will also bring a low that will list the rights and duties of students in the country
• Rahul Gandhi has said a Congress government will waive outstanding interest on old education loans prior to March 31, 2019
Higher Education
• Congress promised restore the independence and autonomy of colleges and universities and will open new state-run varsities in backward areas of the country to ensure the expansion of the education sector
• Focusing on higher education, the party has promised to establish more public universities in the country, especially in under-served areas
• Congress has vowed to establish more Institutes of Higher Learning in subjects such as medicine, engineering, commerce, management and pure sciences
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