Govt. hikes budget for Narela Education City to ₹1,300 crore

Education Minister Ashish Sood connected Saturday announced a fund hike for Narela Education City from ₹500 crore to ₹1,300 crore arsenic portion of a larger imaginativeness of processing the country arsenic the epicentre of education.

During the 2025-26 budget, the authorities had allocated ₹500 crore to fortify acquisition infrastructure successful the Capital and assured existing universities that Delhi Development Authority (DDA) onshore would beryllium allotted for their expansion.

‘Shared campus’ model

“While the task initially had a budgetary proviso of ₹500 crore, keeping aboriginal requirements successful mind, it has been accrued to ₹1,300 crore. So far, the Delhi authorities has paid astir ₹452 crore, and the remaining magnitude volition besides beryllium released wrong the existent fiscal year,” Mr. Sood said astatine a property conference.

After its development, the acquisition hub volition span 160 acres and follow a “shared campus” model, enabling aggregate universities successful the country to usage communal libraries, laboratories and different facilities, helium said.

“This [shared] attack volition guarantee optimal utilisation of resources and supply nonstop benefits to a larger fig of students,” Mr. Sood said, adding that the authorities has besides planned to physique flats for the unit wrong the premises of the universities.

Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena handed implicit onshore allotment letters to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and Delhi Teachers University of 22.43 and 12.69 acres respectively for mounting up their campuses successful Narela. The Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women had been allotted 50 acres of onshore earlier.

The L-G said that the enlargement of the assemblage campuses would spell a agelong mode towards providing prime acquisition not lone to students from Delhi but besides from crossed the state and would reaffirm the nationalist capital’s presumption arsenic a “leading centre of higher education”.

“The enlargement of assemblage campuses successful Narela aligns with the larger imaginativeness of processing the country arsenic an emerging epicentre of education, benefiting residents in Outer Delhi and neighbouring areas,” stated a merchandise from the L-G’s office.