Quote:27. One hundred and fifty-seven new nursing colleges will be
established in co-location with the existing 157 medical colleges established
since 2014.

33. A National Digital Library for children and adolescents will be set-up
for facilitating availability of quality books across geographies, languages,
genres and levels, and device agnostic accessibility. States will be
encouraged to set up physical libraries for them at panchayat and ward
levels and provide infrastructure for accessing the National Digital Library
resources.

Centres of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence
60. For realizing the vision of “Make AI in India and Make AI work for
India”, three centres of excellence for Artificial Intelligence will be set-up in
top educational institutions. Leading industry players will partner in
conducting interdisciplinary research, develop cutting-edge applications and
scalable problem solutions in the areas of agriculture, health, and
sustainable cities. This will galvanize an effective AI ecosystem and nurture
quality human resources in the field.

90. Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 4.0 will be launched to skill
lakhs of youth within the next three years. On-job training, industry
partnership, and alignment of courses with needs of industry will be
emphasized. The scheme will also cover new age courses for Industry 4.0
like coding, AI, robotics, mechatronics, IOT, 3D printing, drones, and soft
skills. To skill youth for international opportunities, 30 Skill India
International Centres will be set up across different States.

Unity Mall
95. States will be encouraged to set up a Unity Mall in their state capital
or most prominent tourism centre or the financial capital for promotion and
sale of their own ODOPs (one district, one product), GI products and other
handicraft products, and for providing space for such products of all other
States.

Quote:108. I am proposing substantial investments in the development of modern fishing harbours and fish landing centres. To start with, 5 major
fishing harbours – Kochi, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, and Petuaghat will be developed as hubs of economic activity. We will also develop inland fishing harbours and fish-landing centres along the banks of rivers and waterways.

Quote:119. Many of our cities have various research institutions, universities, and colleges supported by the Government of India. Hyderabad for example, has about 40 such major institutions. In 9 such cities, we will create formal umbrella structures so that these institutions can have better synergy, while also retaining their internal autonomy. A Glue Grant will be set aside for this purpose.

Quote:57. We will work towards raising the share of public transport in urban areas through expansion of metro rail network and augmentation of city bus service. A new scheme will be launched at a cost of `18,000 crores to support augmentation of public bus transport services. The scheme will facilitate deployment of innovative PPP models to enable private sector players to finance, acquire, operate and maintain over 20,000 buses. The scheme will boost the automobile sector, provide fillip to economic growth, create employment opportunities for our youth and enhance ease of mobility for urban residents.

58. A total of 702 km of conventional metro is operational and another 1,016 km of metro and RRTS is under construction in 27 cities. Two new technologies i.e., ‘MetroLite’ and ‘MetroNeo’ will be deployed to provide metro rail systems at much lesser cost with same experience, convenience and safety in Tier-2 cities and peripheral areas of Tier-1 cities.

59. Central counterpart funding will be provided to:

a. Kochi Metro Railway Phase-II of 11.5 km at a cost of `1957.05 crores.
b. Chennai Metro Railway Phase-II of 118.9 km at a cost of `63,246 crores.
c. Bengaluru Metro Railway Project Phase 2A and 2B of 58.19 km at a cost of `14,788 crores.
d. Nagpur Metro Rail Project Phase-II and Nashik Metro at a cost of`5,976 crores and `2,092 crores respectively.