Budget 2022: FM announces setting up of digital university | What this means

While presenting the Union Budget 2022 in Parliament on Tuesday, Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Centre’s plan to establish a digital university.

While presenting the Union Budget 2022 in Parliament on Tuesday, Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Centre’s plan to establish a digital university. This digital university will provide access to world-class education to students across the country, she said in her budget address.

“A digital university will be established to provide access to world-class quality universal education with personalised learning experience to students across the country at their doorsteps,” Nirmala Sitharaman announced.

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The digital university that the Centre plans to set up will be based on a networked hub and spoke model. The hub and spoke model refers to a distribution method in which everything originates at a centralised ‘hub’ and then travels to smaller locations, ‘spokes’, for final consumption.

In this case, the ‘hub’ refers to the country’s best public universities and institutions and the ‘spokes’ are each individual student who will consume knowledge generated by the hubs at home via the digital medium.