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Union Budget 2022: Five takeaways for education sector

Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the skilling programmes and partnership with the industry will be reoriented to promote continuous skilling avenues, sustainability, and employability.

Union Budget 2022, Education Sector Budget 2022-23

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget. File.

3 min readNew DelhiFeb 2, 2022 10:24 AM IST First published on: Feb 1, 2022 at 03:30 PM IST

While presenting the Union Budget 2022-23 in Parliament today, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the skilling programmes and partnership with the industry will be reoriented to promote continuous skilling avenues, sustainability, and employability. The National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) will be aligned with dynamic industry needs.

1. Digital Ecosystem for Skilling and Livelihood – the DESH-Stack e-portal – will be launched. The portal aims to empower citizens to skill, reskill or upskill through online training. It aims to provide API-based trusted skill credentials, payment and discovery layers to find relevant jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities.

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2. Startups will be promoted to facilitate ‘Drone Shakti’ through varied applications and for Drone-As-A-Service (DrAAS). In select ITIs, in all states, the required courses for skilling will be started.