The Union budget with its focus on critical areas of the economy such as education, employability, rural development, agriculture and infrastructure development, is realistic. It will help in the journey to make India a knowledge-based productive economy — Anish Srikrishna, President, Times Centre for Learning Ltd
The Union budget has taken a 360 degree view of the needs of India’s education sector. The special emphasis on skills development is crucial for employability while the deeper issues of quality and reach are addressed — Shantanu Prakash, Chairman and CEO, Educomp Solutions Ltd
The budget, which has provided Rs.1,800 crore for setting up 1,500 multi-skill institutions and scaling up PMKVY to cover 10 million youth in the next three years, is a step in the right direction — Siddharth Chaturvedi, Director, AISECT
We welcome the strong measures to strengthen skills development and entrepreneurship through continuous support to NSDC. The Higher Education Financing Agency is also path-breaking and will help deserving students who want to pursue higher education — Ambarish Datta, CEO, BSE Institute Ltd and Director, NSDC
I don’t think education is a money problem. It’s an ideas problem. While this budget like previous ones, has changed allocations, there are no ideas on how to transform education. There are so many good ideas on how we can expand education at all levels without necessarily spending large amounts of public funds, yet the government seems to be content with more of the same — Nitin Pai, Director, Takshashila Institution
The emphasis given to skills development is overdue and welcome. The provision of Rs.1,800 crore for establishing 1,500 new skill development centres is realistic — Nikhil Rajpal, Partner and Head of Education, Ernst & Young (India)