2nd Feb 2022

The Budget FY23 impetus for a digital university follows the Union government’s move over the past two fiscals — accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic — to partially free up online and distance learning, and builds on the SWAYAM initiative. The digital university, the FM said, would deliver world-class education at the doorstep, in different Indian languages and ICT formats. The university will have a networked ‘hub-spoke’ model, with top public universities and institutions collaborating. Budgetary outlay for Digital India e-Learning, under the education ministry’s department of higher education, thus assumes significance.