IANS | 17 Aug, 2023
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the expansion of the Digital India programme with an outlay of Rs 14,903 crore.
Minister
for Railway, Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, while addressing a
press conference after the meeting of the Union Cabinet, said that 6.25
lakh IT professionals will be re-skilled and up-skilled under
FutureSkills Prime programme.
The Digital India programme was
first launched in 2015 by the Centre and now under its ambit, 2.65 lakh
people will be trained in information security under the information
security and education awareness phase programme.
Also 540 additional services will be made available on the UMANG platform, the minister further said.
Vaishnaw said that nine supercomputers will be added under the National Super Computer Mission.
Bhashini,
the Artificial Intelligence enabled multi-language translation tool
(currently available in 10 languages) will be rolled out in all 22
Schedule VIII languages.
Also, modernisation of the National
Knowledge Network which connects 1,787 education institutions, will be
done, the minister said.
Digital document verification facility
under DigiLocker will be made available to MSMEs and other
organisations. In tier II and III cities, 1,200 startups will be
supported under Digital India scheme, he said.
