Context
In a positive development, the Finance Minister announced the setting up of the “DESH-Stack e-portal”, during Budget 2022 speech.
DESH-Stack e-portal
- DESH stands for “Digital Ecosystem for Skilling and Livelihood”.
- This portal aims to empower citizens to skill, upskill or re-skill through online training.
- It will also provide API-based trusted skill credentials, discovery layers and payment to find entrepreneurial opportunities and relevant jobs.
- The portal will be aligned with industry requirements and help in improving and strengthening the education and skill ecosystem in India.
Other initiatives announced in the Education Sector
- Digital University: A digital university will be established to provide access to world-class quality universal education to students across the country with a personalised 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 realise the potential of this sector.
