DESH-Stack e-portal

In a positive development, the Finance Minister announced the setting up of the “DESH-Stack e-portal”, during Budget 2022 speech.

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In a positive development, the Finance Minister announced the setting up of the “DESH-Stack e-portal”, during Budget 2022 speech.

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.

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.