| PM's I-Day speech lays thrust on agri, education |
| BS Reporter / New Delhi August 16, 2007 |
| Underlining the UPA government's renewed thrust on social and human development for the remaining part of its tenure; Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced major initiatives on the education, vocational education and social security front. The initiatives include the setting up of 6,000 new high quality schools one in every block of the country, an extensive programme for universalising secondary education, helping states set up colleges in 370 low-enrolment districts, 30 new Central Universities, setting up five new Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, eight new Indian Institutes of Technology, seven new Indian Institutes of Management and 20 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology. These initiatives, the Prime Minister in his customary Independence Day address to the nation said, will generate new educational opportunities for the country |
