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Joshi's plea to Jaswant

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI FEB. 17. The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Murli Manohar Joshi, has written to the Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, requesting him to reconsider the decision to keep the annual plan outlay for the Department of Secondary and Higher Education in the next fiscal at the current level of Rs. 2,125 crores as against the required Rs. 3,197 crores.

According to Dr. Joshi, the Department had projected this requirement to address the issues of quality, access and relevance across all sectors of education; be it expansion of Navodaya Vidyalayas as announced by the Prime Minister, vocationalisation of education, expanding the coverage of distance education, or quality upgradation of higher education, including information technology.

The Department's contention is that freeze of funding at current levels would, in particular, affect two major initiatives in technical education — HRD in IT and the externally-aided TEQIP programme wherein the counterpart funding from within has to be fully protected.

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