Government cuts higher education spending by 13%

The cash-strapped central government has cut the money it was supposed to spend on higher education this fiscal year by 13%, reports Prashant K Nanda for Livemint. The hardest hit will be two key initiatives of the Human Resources Development Ministry, two officials said.

One is the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, which aims to promote quality through technology-enabled learning. The low-cost Aakash computer tablet is a part of this mission.

The second, according to officials who did not want to be identified, is improving the Indian institutes of technology (IITs) and the Indian institutes of management (IIMs) established in the 11th five-year plan (2007-12). Seven new IITs and six new IIMs were established in the past three years.
Full report on the Livemint site