Indian Tribal News Service
New Delhi
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday (February 1) announced the Government’s mega Digital thrust in the school and higher education sectors, against the backdrop of the ongoing pandemic.
Due to the pandemic-induced closure of schools, children, particularly in the rural areas, and those from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and other weaker sections, have lost almost two years of formal education and mostly, these are children in government schools, the Finance Minister said in her Budget speech in Parliament.
Thus to impart supplementary teaching and to build a resilient mechanism for education delivery, the Finance Minister informed that the ‘one class-one TV channel’ programme of PM eVIDYA will be expanded from 12 to 200 TV channels to enable all states to provide supplementary education in regional languages for classes 1-12.
Key Initiatives
The Government is also taking steps to develop high-quality e-content that can be delivered through various modes even as teachers will also be equipped to use such digital tools, she said.
In the higher education sector, a Digital University will be established to provide access to students across the country for world-class quality universal education with personalized learning experience at their doorsteps.
This will be made available in different Indian languages and ICT formats. The University will be built on a networked hub-spoke model, with the hub building cutting edge ICT expertise. The best public universities and institutions in the country will collaborate as a network of hub-spokes.
