By Anshika Verma23, Jul 2024 12:43 PMjagranjosh.com
Union budget 2024
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the Budget 2024-2025 in the parliament today. Tap to read about the top key highlights in the education sector!
E-Vouchers
The government has decided to provide E- vouchers for students for the loan for higher education in domestic institutions upto 10,000 lakhs.
Education loan
Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned that those students who are not benefitting from any government schemes will be given education loans to study.
Paid internships
The government has decided that 12 months paid internships will be provided to 1 crore youth in top 500 companies with a fixed stipend of 5,000.
Salary in installments
Employees will get a benefit of direct transfer in 1 month salary into 3 installments upto 15,000 to first time-time employees registered in EPFO.
EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS
The government has announced that for the 4 years the employees and employers both will get the benefit and after that only employees will get it.
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