Rs 1000 crore to be invested for setting up 200 TV channels for education of underprivileged youth – Education News
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has announced that the Government of India is investing Rs 1000 crore to set-up 200 new TV channels to provide access to quality education for the underprivileged youth in remote and backward areas.
The announcement was made while inaugurating the new computer centre and e-classroom building of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur. He went on to say that there will soon be one channel for each class in every Indian language.
TheUnion Education Minister took to Twitter to announce the setting up of 200 new TV channels. He further said that these new channels will also require content while encouraging NITH to think in this direction. He tweeted, “These 200+ TV channels will require innovative and quality content. @NITHamirpurHP should think in this direction and create innovative audio-visual-gaming based content for students of both basic and advanced courses.” Pradhan went on to say that Himachal Pradesh is a ‘Devbhoomi’ and ‘Veerbhoomi’ while adding that now the focus should be in making it a ‘Gyan-bhoomi’.
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