Government allocates 20 billion rupees for higher education

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ISLAMABAD: Government has allocated 20 billion rupees for higher education in the budget 2015-16.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the government believed in the promotion of education and wanted to enhance its standard.

He said that the government had allocated 12 billion rupees for 143 projects of higher education commission besides allocating fifty one billion rupees for the Higher Education Commission.