Dedicated TV channel for each class in schools: Finance Minister

NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman pushed for promotion of e-learning in a post Covid-19 scenario and announced that there will be dedicated TV channels for each school class and permission will be granted to 100 top universities to offer online degrees and courses.

The minister, announcing the final and fifth tranche of the economic stimulus package across various sectors, said that the government will launch PM e-Vidya, a programme for multi-mode access to digital education, which will include the existing Diskha portal for online content.