Budget 2023: National digital library for youth to be set up, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman
By Team Newsable | First Published Feb 1, 2023, 11:35 AM ISTBudget 2023: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the digital library would provide quality books across geographies, languages, genres, and levels, and device-agnostic accessibility.
In her Budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the establishment of a National Digital Library for children and adolescents to facilitate the availability of quality books on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. FM Sitharaman, on Wednesday, said that the digital library would provide quality books across geographies, languages, genres, and levels, and device-agnostic accessibility.
"Three artificial intelligence excellence centres will be established in top educational institutions. Leading industry players will collaborate to conduct interdisciplinary research, develop cutting-edge applications, and solve scalable problems in agriculture, health, and sustainable cities," she said.
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Sitharaman said that 100 labs would be established in engineering institutions in collaboration with various authorities, regulators, banks, and other businesses to develop applications that will use 5G services.
"The labs will cover, among other things, applications such as smart classrooms, precision farming, intelligent transportation systems, and healthcare applications to realise the new range of opportunities, business models, and employment potential," she said.
While presenting Budget 2023, Sitharaman also said to address learning loss during the pandemic years, a national digital library for children and adolescents will be set up for the availability of quality books across geographies, languages, and genres.
Over the next three years, 38,000 teachers and support staff will be recruited for 740 Eklavya Model Residential Schools serving 3.5 lakh tribal students.
Furthermore, Sitharaman said that teacher training would be re-envisioned through innovative pedagogy, curriculum transaction, a dipstick survey of continuous professional development, and ICT implementation.
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