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Young India

Strengthening: Education Ecosystem The budget of the Ministry
in Jammu and Kashmir of Education has been kept
at Rs 1,12,899 crore in the
The collaboration between IIM, IIT, and AIIMS,
current financial year 2023–
Jammu, offers courses in which students from
one institute can enroll in another. 24, which was Rs 93,224
4500 crore in 2021–22.
Himayat Yojana is a unique
skill-training initiative for
unemployed youth in
Youth Clubs are being set up New guidelines have been
Jammu and Kashmir.
under Mission Youth Clubs.
issued to prepare higher
education according to
new medical international standards.
7 colleges have been
approved. A special office for
Inauguration of IIT and international affairs has
IIM, IIT Jammu campus, also been set up at about 180
new nursing and IIM Jammu made
5 colleges approved functional. higher education institutions.

Around Yuva Sangam: An opportunity
to see and understand India
27 crore students India's strength lies in its diversity. The Ministry of
in the country.
Education has come up with an initiative called Yuva
Sangam which aims to enhance connectivity and
provide youth an opportunity to mingle with each
governments have also taken many important other. 11 higher education institutions from eight
steps in this direction at their respective levels. northeastern states and 14 educational institutions
Work has also been done on a major infrastructure from other states have been included in it. In the first
overhaul in the country's education sector for the round of Yuva Sangam, 1200 youth visited 22 states.
new National Education Policy. A large number More than 10,000 programs have been organized by
of new colleges are opening in the country, new 10 ministries involving the youth. Initiatives like Kashi
universities are opening. The Common University Sangam and Saurashtra Sangam have also been
taken under Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.
Entrance Test (CUET) has been implemented so
that the level of universities is the same. Several
other reforms have also been undertaken as a result
of which the number of Indian institutions in the
World University Rankings has grown exponentially.
Now the choice for study in mother tongue is being This time and this period belong to the
opened, Indian languages like Sanskrit are being young sons and daughters of India. The
promoted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi during last nine years were about returning India's
his US visit has told that an agreement has been self-confidence; now the Amrit Kaal of
signed with the American University in which independence is about the fulfilment of the
Tamil language will be promoted. This beginning resolutions of the Amrit generation.
will definitely work to give new energy to Indian
languages and Indian resolutions. - Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

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