new delhi with the budget for education crossing rs 1 lakh crore for the first time in the 202223 fiscal the government on wednesday said the centre and the states are working together to increase public investment in the sector to 6 of the gdp at the earliesteducation minister dharmendra pradhan also told rajya sabha while replying to queries during the question hour that one of the primary strategies of the national education policy nep was to give utmost importance to the local language or mother tongue to promote critical thinking among studentsasked about the goal set in the nep to achieve public investment on education equivalent to 6 of the gdp junior education minister subhas sarkar said the government was steadily working towards that end this is the first time in education the budget has crossed rs 1 lakh crore he saidpradhan in turn said the entire focus of the nep and samagra shiksha is to improve the quality of education with the dropout ratio being reduced and pm poshan abhiyan is also an ambitious programme in that directionupgradation of education quality teachers education quality all these we are very much focussed on in consultation with the states we are committed to improve the quality of teaching and learning process up to the 21st century expectations he said