BENGALURU: The Union Budget presented by our Finance Minister Arun Jaitley gave large emphasis on the rural sector announcing the government’s most ambitious projects - Start Up India and Digital India. This is a thorough list of the top technology announcements - extracted from the complete speech as compiled by Gizbot.

National Digital literacy Programs

The program has been especially carved to connect the rural and the urban demographics via the internet. The main aim behind this program is to make much of the Indian population digitally literate. To accomplish the same, Indian government announced two new programmes under the Digital India campaign, the National Digital Literacy Mission and the Digital Saksharta Abhiyan. This program helps the youth living in rural India to enhance their skill sets in industrial training institutions and thereby explore employment opportunities.

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