Digital India And The Union Budget: A Double Edged Sword?

Aayush Ambasht, Symbiosis Law School, Pune

INTRODUCTION

On February 1, 2022, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proffered the Union Budget 2022-23 that undeniably has had the loop of a multimedia, and progressively digitized, India trying to run through many of its propositions, that have since been formed with an insistence on incorporation and the construction of a thriving economy by harnessing automation across several realms. The planned changes in the field of education are the first such important competency. The variations to children's formal education caused by the COVID-19 disease outbreak have widened the digital gap and exposed a number of functional inefficiencies that have disproportionately affected school-aged youngsters, with the vast number of Indian kids plunging further behind when schools started operations online. Nevertheless, by integrating and leveraging technology, this evermore gulf might be the critical moment for making a major breakthrough in improving educational performance.