Focusing on improving the foundational skills of students in their early years of education, introduction of topics such as ‘coding’ and ‘computational thinking’ aims at crucially affecting and improving the cognitive and analytical skills of the students. Largely aiming to improve the ‘logical thinking’ and ‘problem solving skills’ amongst the students, learning how to code also aims at setting a certain amount of preparedness amongst the future-employable section of the nation. However, broadening the scope of computational thinking and learning would lead to understanding how the component of ‘digital literacy’ aims at universalizing the accustoming with digital technologies and using them to live, learn and work.

The need to improve digital literacy, and the nation-wide access to digital devices was enunciated during the outspread of a global pandemic over the past few years. Lack of access to the existing education facilities multiplied the reliance on digital equipment and digital means for learning. However, lack of access to digital devices and learning content hindered the learning of a huge chunk of population, thereby further expanded the pre-existing divide in level of literacy. This brought out the need to nationalize digital literacy and making digital knowledge and equipment accessible.