2nd Feb 2022

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted the need for quick adoption of digital learning and weightage to regional languages in higher education institutions as well as schools while tabling her fourth General Budget on February 1.

Sitharaman proposed to set up a digital university aimed at providing access to digital education to more students from across the country. The digital university will collaborate with the best of higher education institutions from across India and offer programmes in regional languages, she said.