More for Tech, Less for Science: Budget Allocates Funds for IITs, Cuts IISERs and IISc
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 02 February 2025 | The Telegraph
The Union budget on Saturday announced increased funds for the IITs to create 6,500 more BTech seats over the next five years but slashed the allocations for several key institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and IISc Bengaluru.
The allocation for education as a whole continued a two-year-old trend of a falling rate of increase…