The year 2020 witnessed a drastic pandemic of COVID-19. It has caused tremendous impact on the health, and lifestyle of human beings all over the globe. As a result, every business, industry and educational sector were the worst hit. Due to the closure of schools and universities, learning was resumed online. Do you expect the Union Budget 2023 as a stepping stone to improving the educational sector?
As per an educational report conducted recently, the reading ability of children had a sudden drop down. The new budget emphasizes on leveraging teacher’s training to digital learning platforms implemented by School Management Software.
The budget also focuses on students’ reading skills as well. As a result, a national digital library will be set up to improve children and youngsters interest in books. Let’s foresee a digital world to overcome the impacts of COVID-19.
Nirmala Sitharaman announced Union Budget 2023 for the educational sector setting Rs 1.13 lakh crore, a steep rise from 8.2% in 2022. However, the 2022 budget allocated Rs 1,04,277.72 crore.
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said “By giving a boost to education, skill development, entrepreneurship, research and development, digital infrastructure, green growth and job creation, the Budget draws a meticulous blueprint for India at 100 and lays a solid foundation for transforming India into a technology-driven knowledge-based economy”.
To support the digitization of learning, schools invest in School Management Software to facilitate improved teaching, learning and development. As a result, students can easily access recorded classes, online class, reading materials, and other learning sources.
Nirmala Sitharaman added to her speech that in order to implement the need of accessing quality books on geographies, languages, genres, and levels, a national digital library will be set up for children and adults. Moreover, the library proceedings will be in progress from June-July, this year.
She also added that books and other study materials will be provided from National Book Trust, the Children’s Book Trust in various languages to build habitual reading.
In this digital era, learning has become digitized. Digital library is an effective platform which provides the best learning resources for children and youngsters. Similarly, various national library resources will be available in multiple languages. Students can be provided a better learning space using the best library management system.
To nurture regional languages, the union budget emphasized promotion of these languages. Henceforth, National Book Trust and other government publishers distribute books in regional languages.
Smart School provides e-learning whereby students can access learning materials, recorded audio or video classes from their comfort zone. To nourish a culture of learning in students, the union budget has announced promotion of regional languages.
Along with spending on School Management Software, the budget also supports faculty training as well. In other words, educators are provided professional development training to develop their digital teaching skills. Teachers can attend courses which specify the latest teaching methodologies and trends.
The Union Budget 2023 highlights recruitment of 38000 teachers in tribal campuses. To clarify, to improve the tribal schools academically, performance wise, and expand the learning outcomes, hiring of teachers is vital in tribal schools.
In other words, to boost the education of tribal students and increase school productivity, the union budget aims to hire teachers who can handle school software.
To avail ‘Make in India’ vision and implement AI for India, the budget on education 2023 aims to set up ‘Centre of Excellence for AI Research’ in three top-notch institutions. In addition, the budget also focuses on using AI in various sectors of agriculture & health as well.
The budget for education 2023 aims to develop soft skills and necessary digital skills to the youth. To step into the digital job platforms, youngsters can learn coding, robotics, 3D printing, and various other soft skills. However, with the help of School Management Software, smart classrooms can be established to help students improve their learning outcomes.
Skill India Digital Platform is a portal that connects job seekers with the employers. The budget focuses on nourishing youngsters to be fit for the specific jobs in industries. Above all, keeping in mind the vision of the up-skilling young generation, teachers are also given proper training.
As a result, it is sure that budget 2023 brings an ultimate change in the education sector. University Grants Commission chairperson M Jagadish Kumar said “Increased fund allocation will accelerate the implementation of NEP 2020, bringing further dividends to the students to make them employable and strengthen our efforts in making India a knowledge-based economy”.
After the COVID-19 impact, the educational industry is expecting a boom change to leverage student, teacher empowerment. Union Budget 2023 brings technology in education, improves student learning, and provides digital libraries. Moreover, it is an open platform for teachers, students and stakeholders.
