The government is striving to increase the number of seats in higher educational institutions by one-and-a-half times by 2024, President Ram Nath Kovind said .
Addressing the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament in the historic Central Hall, he said research is being encouraged in higher educational institutions and to strengthen this effort, there is a proposal to establish a ‘National Research Foundation’’.
“This proposed foundation will work as a bridge between different Departments of the central government, science laboratories, higher educational institutions and industrial institutions,” Kovind said.
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