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Social inequity in online education

Part of: GS Prelims and Mains II – Welfare Schemes; Govt schemes and initiatives

In news:

We recently read about 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report released by UNESCO
The report had highlighted that COVID-19 pandemic has increased inequalities in education systems.
Therefore, to tackle social inequity in online education the Centre has proposed long-term measures to bridge the divide.

Measures proposed by the Centre

It plans to distribute laptops or tablets to 40% of all college and university students over the next five years. (at a total cost of Rs. 60,900 crore)
The Centre and States are to share the cost of making devices available, in a 60:40 ratio.
The Centre aims to equip all government schools with information and communication technology (ICT).
For the 3.1 lakh government schools above upper primary level, Centre has proposed a budget of Rs. 55,840 crore to equip them with ICT facilities.
For college and university students, the Human Resource Development Ministry proposed to spend Rs. 2,306 crore on developing and translating digital course content and resources over the next five years.

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