Union Budget 2016: Key Tech Announcements for Companies & Consumers
Plans to Reduce the Digital Divide
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley claimed that out of the 168 million rural households in the country, over 120 million are not connected to the Internet, thus leading to a significant digital division. Through the efforts of the digital literacy campaigns and providing subsidy and awareness on sale of computers, tablet PCs and smartphones, the government aims at reducing that divide and getting more of the untapped demographic, online.
Digital Depository for Schools/Universities
Most of the educational institutions in the rural and urban India are still physically storing students information. However much of them cannot be retrieved when there is a requirement and thereby can cause a huge loss. Hence Jaitley proposed a Digital Depository for all major schools and universities in the country. This Depository will digitally store all school-leaving documents of students, to be easily accessed in the future.
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