Economic Survey: Degrees are rising, job certainty isn’t; tomorrow’s Budget gets tested here
Education sector is India’s operating system and the operating system is only as good as its handover. Image: AI generated. Tomorrow’s Union Budget will arrive with its familiar vocabulary—“skilling”, “capacity”, ‘future-ready youth’. Fine. But the Economic Survey 2025–26 has already reminded us of something budgets often forget: Education isn’t a sector you ‘announce’ for one…