In the next two months, Shillong will become home to the nation’s first centre of excellence for online gaming, which will encourage entrepreneurs and startups from the northeastern region to create the online gaming ecosystem of the future.
Through the Software Technology Parks of India, Digital India Startup Hub will establish the centre.
A state-of-the-art facility will be established under the National Institute of Electronics and IT (NIELIT) to provide training in cutting-edge digital skills in Shillong, according to Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the minister of state for electronics and information technology, skill development, and entrepreneurship, who was in Shillong.He continued by saying that a 10-acre campus will soon be ready for this use and would meet the educational needs of young people in the northeast.
Shillong, Kohima, and other northeastern Indian cities must produce the next generation of startups and entrepreneurs, according to Chandrasekhar. Online gaming-related draught revisions to the IT Rules 2021 have recently been made available for public comment by the ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY).
As the rate of digitalization of goods, services, and gadgets continues to rise globally, the minister also emphasised the significance of digital skills post-Covid. The minister stated that the Narendra Modi administration “believes in imparting digital skills to the youth in the northeastern area to enable them to grab opportunities of jobs and entrepreneurship in the fast-expanding digital economy.” The minister also disclosed that the government is resuming PMKVY 4.0, which will train about 50,000 young people in Meghalaya in future-ready skills and provide them with job opportunities supported by industry.
