Karnataka Budget 2023: Vidya Shakti scheme announced for students

Karnataka Budget 2023: Vidya Shakti Scheme: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday announced a scheme -- -- Vidya Shakti -- for the students in the Budget. The scheme will help students, who graduate from secondary school, to pursue higher education. Around 8 lakh students are likely to get benefit of the scheme in the southern state.

Under the Vidya Shakti scheme, the government will provide free education to students in all government-run Pre-University and Degree Colleges.

"Vidya Shakthi scheme aims at enabling all children who graduate from high school to continue their higher education. This will benefit eight lakh students of the state," Bommai said while presenting the Budget on the floor of the Legislative Assembly.

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The government also increased the gross allocation for the education sector from Rs 31,980 crore last year to Rs 37,960 crore.

Meanwhile, Bommai has allocated Rs 500 crore for setting up new medical college in Chitradurga. Post-graduate degree courses have been launched at Mandya and Hassan Institute of

Medical Sciences, with a new 450-bed hospital in Chamarajanagar to provide tertiary care services.

AIIMS like hospital in Uttara Kannada

Besides, the Chief Minister announced a hospital on the lines of AIIMS in Raichur in Kumta, Uttara Kannada district, with a super speciality hospital to be established this year.

Bommai, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented the BJP government’s last budget before the state goes to polls in April-May. The term of the Legislative Assembly is slated to expire on May 24. 

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