Even because the enrollment charge in main faculties and technical establishments has declined in Gujarat over the past 5 years, the state authorities introduced a Funds of Rs 59,999 crore for the training sector on Thursday.
Finance Minister Kanu Desai didn’t announce any new schemes for the training sector within the annual state Funds of Rs 3.7 lakh crore for the monetary 12 months 2025-26.
Allocations had been made just for current schemes reminiscent of Namo Lakshmi Yojana, Namo Saraswati Vigyan Sadhana Yojana, Mukhya Mantri Yuva Swavalamban Yojana together with benefit scholarships.
Based on the Social Financial Overview 2024-25 launched Thursday, the entire variety of main faculties in Gujarat have declined by over 1000 within the final 5 years.
Among the many kinds of possession of those faculties, the very best decline has been recorded in faculties run by native our bodies — from 31,337 in 2019-20 to 30,626 in 2023-24.
From 45,315 main faculties within the state in 2019-20 the numbers have gone all the way down to 44,288 in 2023-24.
The decline in faculties additionally mirrored within the variety of enrollment because it too fell from 86.14 lakh to 78.47 lakh. Despite the fact that the variety of establishments has elevated within the state within the final 5 years, from 236 in 2020-21 to 271 in 2024-25, the variety of sanctioned seats, nonetheless, declined from 1.85 lakh to 1.22 lakh in 2024-25.
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Institute to be arrange on the traces of IIT
The state authorities has introduced to arrange Gujarat Institute of Expertise (GIT) and has stored apart a provision of Rs 100 crore for a similar. The institute will operate on the traces of the Indian Institute of Expertise (IIT).
Finance Minister Kanu Desai acknowledged in his price range doc that this initiative goals to equip college students with expertise in areas reminiscent of inexperienced power, semiconductors, fintech and aerospace, thereby permitting them “to seize rising alternatives”. Equally in diploma programs, towards a rise of 26 establishments and thus the sanctioned seats, the variety of college students have declined from 1.87 lakh to 1.17 lakh between 2020-21 and 2024-15. The Social Financial Overview additionally highlights the launch of Gujarat Frequent Admission Service (GCAS) as one of many achievements. The GCAS portal was launched by the training division in 2024 to streamline the admission registration course of throughout a number of disciplines provided by the federal government universities inside Gujarat. Moreover, a Demonstrative Synthetic Intelligence Lab will probably be arrange at LD School of Engineering in Ahmedabad together with Synthetic Intelligence Labs at six different authorities technical establishments.
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