Digital ecosystems for skills and livelihoods, e-Portal Desh-Stack, will be launched to empower citizens to skills, reskill or upskill through online training, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday.
Presenting a budget of 2022-23 in parliament, Sitharaman also announced that digital universities will be established to provide access to world-class quality universal education to students throughout the country with personalized learning experience in front of their door.
This will be available in the format of Indian and ICT and information and communication technology) which are different.
The university will be built on the Hub-and-Spoke network model, with the Hub build up-to-date ICT expertise.
The best universities and public institutions in this country will collaborate as a network of hubs and fingers, he shares.
The Minister of Finance said the program and partnership with the industry will be a process of promoting roads on sustainable skills, sustainability and work ability.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see the results of the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) will be harmonized with the dynamic industry needs, he added.
Sitharaman announced that 750 virtual labs in science and mathematics, as well as 75 skilled e-laboratories for simulated learning environments, will be established in 2022-23 to promote critical thinking skills and provide space for creativity.
Referring to the digital ecosystem for skills and livelihoods, he said the portal aims to empower citizens to skills, reskill or upskill through online training.
It will also provide credentials of reliable skills (API) interface, payment, and relevant discovery opportunities to find relevant jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities.
The Minister of Finance stated that the start-up would be promoted to facilitate ‘Shakti Drones’ through varying applications and for drone-as-a-service (Draas).
In certain industrial training institutions (itís), in all states, the courses needed for skills will begin.
Sitharaman said that because of the closure of the school, children induced by a pandemic, especially in rural areas, and those from scheduled caste schedules and tribes, and the other weaker parts have lost almost two years of formal education.
“Mostly, these are children in government schools.
We realize the need to provide additional teaching and to build a formidable mechanism for educational delivery.
“For this purpose, the ‘One Class One TV Channel’ program Evidya will be expanded from 12 to 200 TV channels.
This will allow all countries to provide additional education in regional languages for class 1-12,” he said.
In addition, high-quality e-content in all spoken languages will be developed for shipments via the internet, cellphones, TV and radio through digital teachers, the Minister of Finance said.
The competitive mechanism for the development of the quality of e-content by teachers will be arranged to empower and equip them with digital teaching tools and facilitate better learning outcomes, he added.
Dish-stack e-portal to improve skills development; Digital Varsity to Provide World Class Education: FM During Budget 2022
