The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley while presenting the General Budget 2017-18 in Parliament today proposed  to create innovative fund for secondary education for ensuring universal access, gender parity and quality improvement. Delivering his Budget Speech, the Finance Minister said this will include ICT enabled learning, transformation and the focus will be on 3479 educationally backward blocks.

Innovative fund for secondary education proposed to promote universal access, gender parity and ICT-enabled quality improvements. Creation of an innovative fund for secondary education was proposed in the General Budget to promote universal access, achieve gender parity and improve quality, prioritising ICT enabled learning and directing focus to 3479 educationally backward blocks for targeted fund deployment.