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The Union Cabinet of India on Wednesday approved the expansion of the Digital India program with an outlay of ₹14,903 crore or $180 million.
India’s Minister for Railway, Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, while addressing a press conference after the meeting of the Union Cabinet, said that 625,000 IT professionals will be re-skilled and up-skilled under FutureSkills Prime program.
The Digital India program was launched in 2015 by the Center and now under its ambit, 265,000 lakh people will be trained in information security under the information security and education awareness phase program.
Another 540 services will be made available on the UMANG platform, the minister said. Vaishnaw said 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.
He announced the modernization of the National Knowledge Network which connects 1,787 education institutions. 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.
Indian govt okays $180 mn Digital India expansion
