Preparing young Indians with right digital skills is the key: MoS IT

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said here on Monday that the journey in the last nine years has been not only to make up for the lost ground before 2014 but also to prepare the young generation in this rapidly transforming India to be equipped with right set of skills and play a key role in the evolving landscape of technology and the global economy.

Speaking at an event here where social media giant Meta announced a three-year partnership with Ministry of Education and Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to empower students, educators and entrepreneurs, the minister said that digital skills “more importantly represents a bridge between lakhs of small rural, micro and self-employed entrepreneurs, enabling them to expand, grow and succeed.”