Education Budget 2022: Presenting Budget 2022, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that the government will expand the PM e-Vidya programme from 12 to 200 TV channels. The Finance Minister informed that the government has taken various steps to boost online education during lockdown.
Under the PM e-Vidya programme, there will be 200 DTH channels dedicated to classes 1 to 12. This will enable all states to provide supplementary education in regional languages for classes 1 to 12, Nirmala Sitharaman said.
In her Budget 2022 speech, the Finance Minister said, "Due to pandemic induced closure of schools, our children particularly in the rural areas and particularly of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections have lost two years of formal education. Most of these are children in government schools."
"We recognize the need to impart supplementary teaching and to build a resilient mechanism for education delivery. For this purpose one class one TV channel program of PM eVIDYA will be expanded from 12 to 200 TV channels," she said.
Nirmala Sitharaman said, "This will enable all states to provide supplementary education for classes in regional languages for classes 1 to 12. High-quality E content in all spoken languages will be developed for delivery via internet mobile phones, TV and through radio and digital teachers."
She has also proposed to set up a digital university to provide education that will be built on a hub and spoke model.
