Digital University to be Set up to Provide Education, Says FM Sitharaman: Check Details Here


New Delhi: On Tuesday, during the Union Budget Speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to set up a digital university to provide education that will be built on a hub and spoke model.

The Finance Minister has explained that the 1-Class-1-TV channel will be implemented to provide basic supplementary education to children to make up for the loss of formal education due to the pandemic. 

One class, one TV channel program of PM eVIDYA will be expanded from 12 to 200 TV channels. This will further enable all the states to provide supplementary education in regional languages for classes 1 to 12. 

Sitharaman also noted that the hospitality services by the small and medium sectors are yet to make a comeback. 

The Finance Minister further discussed the importance of ‘Nari Shakti’ or women empowerment and said that three schemes were launched to provide integrated development for women and children. 

During the speech, the Government has also discussed the importance of agri education. The Finance Minister has emphasised on the need to revise the syllabus of agricultural universities. This is specifically for the purpose of meeting the requirements of natural, zero-budget & organic farming and modern-day agriculture. 

Check: Top Agronomy Colleges in India 

In addition to this, the Government has decided to permit the setting up of foreign universities in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT city) to provide courses in financial managementfin-tech, mathematics and other subjects. 

Recently, the State Government of Gujarat organised a 2-day International Conference of Academic Institutions in January, 2022. The conference focused on the discourse on holistic education and internationalisation of education. Multiple sessions were conducted on research and innovation, skill development, employment, etc. 

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