By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Union Budget 2011-12 has provision for Special Grants to universities and academic institutions in the country. While the Budget has allocation of Rs. 50 crore each to upcoming centres of Aligarh Muslim University at Murshidabad in West Bengal and Malappuram in Kerala a grant of Rs 200 crore will be given to the Maulana Azad Educational Foundation.
In the Budget presented on 28th Feb. 2011 in the Lok Sabha, the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has proposed special grants to recognize excellence in universities and academic institutions. The following institutions / universities will be given special grants during the course of 2011-12:
Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee arrives Parliament House to present the General Budget 2011-12, in New Delhi on February 28, 2011. Ministers of State of Finance, S.S. Palanimanickam and Namo Narain Meena are also seen.
*Rs. 50 crore each to upcoming centres of Aligarh Muslim University at Murshidabad in West Bengal and Malappuram in Kerala;
*Rs. 100 crore as one-time grant to the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University at Pookode, Kerala;
*Rs. 10 crore each for setting up Kolkata and Allahabad Centres of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha;
*Rs. 200 crore as one time grant to IIT, Kharagpur;
*Rs. 20 crore for Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu;
*Rs.20 crore for IIM, Kolkata, to set up its Financial Research and Trading Laboratory;
*Rs. 200 crore for Maulana Azad Education Foundation;
*Rs. 10 crore for Centre for Development Economics and Ratan Tata Library, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi; and
* Rs. 10 crore for Madras School of Economics.
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