With an intention to encourage ideas for the improvement of secondary education in government run and government aided schools, the government is planning to set up a National Innovation Fund (NIF) worth Rs 700 crore. The fund will support all such ideas which will help improve the enrolment levels and the quality of education in Classes IX to XII.
Close on the heels of India enacting a law to make education free and compulsory for children from 6 to 14 years group, the neighbouring Bangladesh too is thinking on similar lines. Taking a cue from its most important neighbour, a committee constituted by Bangladesh government on education policy has suggested making primary education free and compulsory in the country.
Economic Survey envisages sweeping reforms in the education sector. If its recommendations are implemented, the Survey will prove a harbinger of unprecedented education reforms in the country.