Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget as per schedule on February 1. Business Standard presents some key takeaways for the education sector from the Union Budget 2017: Two new AIIMS institute in Jharkhand and Gujarat Take steps to increase post-graduate seats for medical sciences Proposal to launch a system of measuring learning in schools.

Emphasis on science education and flexible curriculum. Focus will be the 3,479 educationally backward blocks where the government proposes to introduce the practise of measuring ...