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No of Colleges in India: Source AICTE, UGC, Planning Commission India has over 33 thousand colleges. Of these close to 20 thousand colleges are run by private institutions. The balance includes 669 colleges run by central government and remaining.

The following table provides the data on number of universities in India. This is part of our series of posts on Education Statistics in India.   Number of Universities In India FY71 103 FY81 133 FY91 190 FY01 256 FY07 387 FY12 659 .

In the interim budget announced today, government proposed to raise expenditure on Education sector by 9% (vs Revised Estimates for 2013-14) . Total Budgeted Expenditure on Education is Rs 81,441 Cr . This includes plan and non-plan expenditure. The.

As predicted here, India's lowered its growth estimate for FY14 from 5% to 4.9% but it still turned out to be a positive news as India had lowered the growth rate estimate for FY13 to 4.5%. India had achieved 4.6% growth in H1 FY14 and as per current.

MSDF Gray Matters India Private Limited (http://www.graymatters.in) has received funding from Michael and Susas Dell Foundation (http://www.msdf.org). Gray Matters, founded in 2006, is a Gray Matters Capital incubated firm and focuses on assesments.

Facebook delighted its billion+ followers on its 10th anniversary, with a video link that provided a LookBack on their individual journeys on facebook. The individual curated, roughly 1 minute videos are personalized with the images that each.

Here's a snapshot of Enrollment in Higher Education in India and target for 12th Five Year Plan  The target is to increase enrollment to about 36 million by 2016-17 (vs 26 million in 2011-12). This implies a CAGR of only 6.7% (vs 9.4% achieved.

Plan Outlay (expenditure) for Education in the 12th - 5 year plan by Government of India  Overall outlay increased to Rs 4,537 billion  The outlay is up 66% over original outlay of Rs 2,733 billion made in the 11th Plan  As per.

India recently revised its GDP growth percentage for FY13 to 4.5% . This happened because the size of the GDP measured for FY12 was raised higher and on this higher base the previous estimate for FY13 thus meant lower growth. India revises its estimates.

The market dividend yield is near long term average at 1.5%. Dividend yield had touched a high of 3.2% in 2003 and a low of 0.6 in 2001. The following graph shows dividend yield of NIFTY since 1999 The following tables provides the.

The following chart displays P/E trend for NIFTY The current P/E ratio for NIFTY is 17.7, which is a tad below long term average of 18..

In a surprise move, RBI raised REPO Rate by 25 basis points to 8% today,  in its toughening stance against inflation. This despite the fact inflation, although still very high, had fallen more than expected last month to 9.87%.  REPO Rate.

Here's a comparison of returns given by listed education companies since October, 2013 Returns Since October 2014 Shares of Education companies have outperformed the broader markets, including the IT sector since October 13 The sector.

FY13 was a tough year for listed education companies in India.  Only Tree House and MT Educare witnessed healthy growth However, growth rates were down for all education companies, including for Tree House and MTEducare  *For NIIT,.

Company Name: NIIT Limited Last Update: January 22, 2014 NIIT is a leading education and training company based in India. Its present in three primary segments a) Individual Learning Solutions: Vocational Training in IT, Banking and other services.