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Indian science budget fails to impress — despite funding boost

Ministers announce detailed spending plans, with focus on artificial intelligence and cyber systems.
  1. T.V. Padma
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India will raise its spending on science by 10% to 536.2 billion rupees (US$8.4 billion) for 2018–19, compared with the previous year, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on 1 February. The budget includes 30.7 billion rupees earmarked for a digital programme that includes artificial intelligence and cyber systems.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-01504-5

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  • Correction 02 February 2018: An earlier version of this story miscalculated the budget allocations for departments in the Ministry of Science and Technology. It also implied that the space department received the biggest boost and overstated the allocations for artificial intelligence and cyber systems.

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