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|Indian Department of Education| |Ministry of Human Resource
Development||Pallam Raju| |National education budget
(2005–2012)| |Budget||99057 crore (US$18 billion)| |Primary
languages||Hindi, English, or State language| |System
type||Federal, state, private| |1 April 2010| Education in India
is provided by the public sector as well as the private sector,
with control and funding coming from three levels: central,
state, and local. Takshasila was the earliest recorded centre of
higher learning in India from at least 5th century BCE and it is
debatable whether it could be regarded a university or not. The
Nalanda University was the oldest university-system of education
in the world in the modern sense of university. Western
education became ingrained into Indian society with the
establishment of the British Raj. Education in India falls under
the control of both the Union Government and the st