The 10% jump in allocation for the sector aside, Budget 2017 holds great promise for education, especially higher education, because of the reforms path it charts. The move to create a National Testing Agency (NTA) that will be responsible for carrying out various central level entrance tests will relieve the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), as finance minister Arun Jaitley noted in his Budget speech, of the burden of having to juggle both regulating affiliated schools and conducting four major entrance tests—the JEE MAINS for engineering, NEET-UG for medical,…
