Union Budget (2017-18) - Department of Higher ...

Total Union Budget allocation for the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Human Resource Development. It contains budgetary allocations by the Union Government for interventions in University and Higher education through University Grants Commission (UGC), Assistance to State Governments for Degree Colleges, various schemes and programmes like Rashtriya Uchcha Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, National Initiative on Sports and Wellness, Support for Skill based Higher Education including Community Colleges, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Tribal Universities, and Establishment of Tribunals, Accreditation Authority, NCHER and National Finance Corporation. It also contains allocations for scholarship for college and university students, and for Open and Distance Education and ICT like IGNOU. Further, it contains allocations for Development of Languages, and for Institutes of Technical Education like IITs, NITTTRs, IIMs and other Institutions funded by the Union Government.