Budget 2022 Needs To Focus On Digital Infrastructure

Educators and EdTech startups expect government to spend more on access to education, and reduce taxation TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Through the upcomingbudget, the educatorshope that the government will focus on addressing the inequalities in access to education and improvement of digital infrastructure. They say that it is imperative to lessen the financial burden on parents and students, and it is equally important to give sops to startups to boost skilling infrastructure to bridge education-employability gap.

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PC Chhabra, executive director, Sanskriti University, says, “In the past year, education allocation budget was Rs 93,223 crores, which was reduced by 6% as compared to the year before. This year, we are expecting an increased by 10%. To increase connectivity, the government should announce programmes to boost 5G devices at an affordable rate to boost e-learning infrastructure. Having a laptop is the minimum requirement for the students and teachers to either record or impart live instructions. We are also expecting academic institutions to be given concessions for collaborating with industry to provide students with the necessary skills and competencies.”