Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed a webinar organised by the Union Ministry of Education (MoE) on how this year's Union Budget will have a positive impact on the education sector on Monday, February 21. Highlighting the initiatives taken by the Centre to tackle the problems posed by the digital divide in the country, PM Modi has expressed confidence that the digital divide is rapidly shrinking in India.
With the call for having innovation for ensuring ‘inclusion', he mentioned that the budget will help in implementing National Education Policy.
Addressing a webinar virtually on ‘Post Budget Seminar: Fostering Strong Industry-Skill Linkage', PM Modi said, “Digital connectivity is what kept our education system alive in this time of a global pandemic. We are seeing how the digital divide is rapidly shrinking in India. Innovation is ensuring our inclusion.”
“This budget will help in implementing National Education Policy. National Digital University is an unprecedented step. The problem of shortage of seats can be resolved. There will be unlimited seats. I urge all stakeholders to ensure digital uni starts as soon as possible,” the Prime Minister said.
"Our today's young generation is the future leader of the country, they are the Nation Builders of the future. So empowering them means empowering India's future," he said.
The Prime Minister further said, "Be it e-Vidya, One Class One Channel, Digital Labs, Digital University, such educational infrastructure is going to help the youth a lot. This is an attempt to provide better solutions for education to all, be it villages, poor, Dalit, backward, tribal, in the socio-economic setup of India."
"National Digital University is a unique and unprecedented step of its kind in the education system of India. I am seeing that power in digital university that this university can completely eliminate the problem of seats in our country," he said
The Prime Minister has also highlighted five points that can help the young generation become the future leader of the country.
"In the budget of 2022, a lot of emphasis has been laid on five things related to the education sector - universalization of quality education, skill development, urban planning and design, internationalisation, and AVGC (Animation Visual Effects Gaming Comics)," PM Modi said.
In the budget of 2022, a lot of emphasis has been laid on five things related to the education sector. First – Universalization of Quality Education. Important decisions have been taken to expand our education system, improve its quality and increase the capacity of the education sector, he said
“Second is Skill Development. A digital skill development ecosystem should be created in the country. According to the demand of the industry, skill development should be done, industry linkage should be better. Attention has been given to it,” he said.
The Prime Minister said, “The third important aspect is urban planning and design. Acknowledging the ancient experience and knowledge of India at present, it is necessary to integrate it in our education today.”
Fourth important aspect is- Internationalization: World class foreign universities should come to India, which are our industrial areas, like GIFT City, institutes associated with FinTech should come there, this has also been encouraged," he added.
"The fifth important aspect is AVGC (Animation Visual Effects Gaming Comics). All of them have immense employment potential. There is a huge global market," PM Modi said.
