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Updated Mar 17, 2021 | 06:42 IST
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Tuesday in Lok Sabha shared that the government would look into the digital divide in education. Demands for grants were also passed by the House. Govt. says will address issue of digital divide in education | Photo Credit: iStock Images
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Tuesday said that the race for packages in institutions of higher learning has now ended and a new race for bagging patents has begun. Responding to a discussion in Lok Sabha on demands for grants of the education ministry, he said research in higher education institutions has been excellent but India is yet to catch up with filing and bagging patents.
MP Shashi Tharoor stressed the need both in the new National Education Policy and any other government schemes to do better to rise to the challenge of this digital divide.