Digital varsity and e-content for schools planned

What is the news?

In Budget 2022, the Finance Minister has announced several initiatives for the education Sector.

What are the initiatives announced in the Education Sector in Budget 2022?

DESH-Stack e-portal: Digital Ecosystem for Skilling and Livelihood (DESH-Stack e-portal) will be launched to empower citizens to skill, reskill or upskill through online training.

Digital University: A digital university will be established to provide access to world-class quality universal education to students across the country with a personalized learning experience at their doorsteps in different languages.The university will be built on a networked hub-spoke model with the collaboration of best public universities and institutions in the country.

Virtual Labs: 750 virtual labs in science and mathematics and 75 e-labs for skilling with simulated learning environments are to be set-up in 2022-23.

World–class foreign universities and institutions will be allowed in the GIFT City to offer courses in various subjects like Financial Management, FinTech, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Expansion of One Class-One TV Channel programme of PM e-VIDYA from 12 to 200 TV channels.This will enable all states to provide quality supplementary education in regional languages for classes 1-12.

Teachers will be encouraged to develop quality e-content in different languages and different subjects so that any teacher or student can access the content from anywhere and get benefitted.

Government will set up an animation, visual effects, gaming, and comic (AVGC) promotion task force to realize the potential of this sector.

Source: This post is based on the article “Digital varsity and e-content for schools planned” published in The Hindu on 2nd Feb 2022.