India, Feb. 1 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Union Budget 2025-26 on Saturday announced that the government will add 6,500 more IIT seats and 10,000 more medical seats in the country to facilitate education for more students.

The additional IIT seats will be added in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) that started functioning after 2014.

She also announced that a centre of excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for education and five national centres of excellence for skilling will be established in the country.

"Total number of students in IITs in 2023 has increased by 100% from 65,000 to 1.35 lakh in the past 10 years. Additional infrastructure will be created in the five IITs started af...