The Budget for the year 2017-18, an Innovation Fund for Secondary Education has been created to encourage local innovation for ensuring universal access, gender parity and quality improvement, including ICT enabled learning transformation with a special focus on educationally backward districts of the country. The Ministry has so far approved an outlay of Rs 6974.96 lakh for projects under the innovation fund in 22 States/UTs.
This information was given by the Minister of State (HRD), Shri Upendra Kushwaha today in a written reply to a Rajya Sabha question.
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NB/AKJ/AK/RK/ Innovation Fund at secondary education level