Haryana aims to be education hub: Hooda

Updated on: Thursday, September 02, 2010

Haryana aims to become a hub for education in the coming years with the state government primarily focusing on providing quality and need based education, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said today.

"We have brought qualitative changes in the system from primary to higher education in our state. In the coming five to seven years, you will see Haryana becoming an education hub of the country," he said at a press conference here.

There are now 78 government colleges in different parts of Haryana and about 3 lakh students are getting education in various streams, he said, adding India's first defence university is set to open in Gurgaon.

Apart from this, four private universities including O P Jindal Global University in Sonepat, five deemed universities including Maharishi Markeshwar University and some 96 private aided colleges are running in the state, he said.

"National Institute of Design, which is in Ahmedabad, is also coming to open its branch in the state. Location is being identified for setting up the institute," he said.

Speaking about the state's economic growth, Hooda said "We had a total industrial investment of Rs 40,000 crore up to March since 1966. Now, it is Rs 53,000 crore on ground and (industrial) investment of over Rs one lakh crore is in the
pipeline."

Till 2005, the FDI in the state was Rs 3,500 crore and now it is Rs 9,277 crore, which is almost three times. The per capital income in the state has reached Rs 77,871 at the rate of current price, he added.

Haryana aims to be education hub: Hooda

More Education news