Live Updates of PM Modi's Webinar on Education Budget 2022-23

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the inaugural talk of the webinar by Education Ministry on budget execution for 2022-23. The webinar will begin at 11 a.m. today, February 21, 2022. The Education Ministry will provide a webinar to discuss how the budget highlights will be implemented, with a focus on the Education and Skills sector.

The participants and experts will examine the several essential features stated for the education sector, such as Digital University, Digital Teacher, and others, along with the way they can be implemented effectively.

The Education Ministry stated on Twitter about today's webinar, "a webinar on the Education and Skill Sector is being organized by the Ministry of Education. The webinar will feature discussions on a variety of relevant topics, and will withhold participation from Ministry Officials, Educators, and other specialists."

The webinar will cover the following themes/topics, according to information provided by the Ministry of Education:

• The Digital University: Bringing World-Class Higher Education to Everyone
• The Digital Teacher: Generating Quality E-Content and Virtual Labs for Inclusivity, Improved Learning Outcomes, and Skilling
• Broadening the Reach of One Class, One Channel: Bringing Quality Digital Education to even the Country's Most Remote Locations
• India to Foster a Stronger Industry-skill Linkage, and Specific Knowledge in Urban Planning and Design.
• India to Strengthen Industry-Skill Linkage in AVGC, and to Develop Educational Institutions in GIFT City.

The Plenary Session will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after which seven concurrent breakout sessions will be held on the identified themes. The webinar will centre on brainstorming ideas and perspectives from a variety of specialists in the field in order to better and more effectively implement the projects and schemes outlined in the Union Budget 2022.

Highlights of PM Modi's Speech

• Union Education Budget to promote Digital Education.
• PM Modi said "Empowering Youth is Empowering India," and the budget this year is planned to carry this out.
• Digital is the way to develop the education sector, he emphasized.
• Digital University to solve the issue of Limited Seats by providing education to the remotest areas of the country.
• Budget Implementation must be carried out at its fastest and to achieve so, the nation must act collectively.

The live updates of this webinar can be checked here:

February 21, 2022, 11:05 AM: PM Modi commences the webinar on the education budget for 2022

The Union Education Budget 2022 is discussed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to him, the budget prioritizes high-quality education and skill development. "I've always been a promoter of the digital future, even before COVID-19. People had worries regarding digitalization, but COVID demonstrated that digital is the way of the future" said PM Modi.

February 21, 2022, 11:12 AM: Empowering Youth is Empowering India

To empower the future of India, the five below stated topics are emphasized:

• Universalization of Quality Education: It is aimed to increase the quality of education in India.
• Skill Development: To develop Digital Skilling Ecosystem in India. To inculcate skill development in the youth as per the industrial demand, and to better the industrial skill-linkage.
• Urban Planning and Design: It is to be implemented to use India's rich knowledge in this sector to reflect in its education.
• Internationalization: World's Top Universities to participate in India to improve the education facilities of the country.
• AVGC (Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics): To harness Indian talent to bring development in this sector.

February 21, 2022, 11:19 AM: Digital is the Way

Digital Divide is reducing after the pandemic. Innovation is promoting Inclusion and now, the country is heading from inclusion to integration. The Union Education Budget 2022 has announced several topics to digitalize the Indian Education System. This will ensure high-quality education even to the underdeveloped areas of the country.

February 21, 2022, 11:27 AM: Digital University to solve the issue of Limited Seats

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman suggested the establishment of a Digital University during the Union Budget 2022 speech, which could tackle the issue of limited seats. "Regional language programmes will be offered in this digital university," he said on the occasion of International Mother Language Day as education in one's mother tongue is essential for a child's growth.

"Digital University is one of a kind," Prime Minister Modi declared today at the plenary session. "We are concentrating on digital integration. It has the potential to address the issue of academic programme availability. Every student will be able to attend the Digital University."

February 21, 2022, 11:29 AM: PM Modi's Speech Concluded: Budget Implementation must be carried out at its fastest

PM Modi emphasized the importance of the implementation of the budget by as soon as April 01, 2022, to achieve an optimum outcome. He also said that our students, every year, go to foreign countries to get a high-quality education, and instead of that, the Union Education Budget 2022 intends to bring these top-class universities of the world to India so that our students can gain the same education at lower costs.

"Implementing the budget is a collective action," saying so, he concluded his speech with best wishes and thanks.