Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the education infrastructure in the country had grown manifold since the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government came into power in 2014.
Delivering the convocation address at the 13th convocation of VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS) in Chennai she contended the country was now seeing new institutions at the rate of one university every week, one Atal Tinkering Lab every third day, one college every second day and one Industrial Training Institute (ITI) every day and one Indian Institute of Technology every year.
Moreover, she said the number of seats for MBBS seats have nearly doubled in the last nine years. All these indicated the importance being given to education by the government.
