Explanation:

Only statements 1&2 are correct.

• The union Ministry of Education recently launched the ‘SWAYAM Plus’ platform to offer courses developed collaboratively with the industry.

• SWAYAM Plus aims to offer employability and professional development focused programmes through collaboration with leading industry players such as L&T, Microsoft and CISCO.

It primarily focuses on achieving the following

• Building an ecosystem for all stakeholders in professional and career development, including learners, course providers, industry, academia and strategic partners.

• Enabling a mechanism that provides credit recognition for high?quality certifications and courses offered by the best industry and academia partners.

• Reaching a large learner base by catering to learning across the country, with a focus on reaching learners from tier 2 and 3 towns and rural areas and

• Offering employment focused courses, based on learner needs across chosen disciplines with options to learn through resources in vernacular languages.

• It will be operated by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras).

• It also envisions bringing in features such as access to mentorship, scholarships, and job placements as value-added services in due course of time.

It will offer programmes in sectors such as

• Manufacturing, Energy, Computer Science and Engineering/IT/ITES,

• Management Studies, Healthcare, Hospitality and Tourism besides Indian Knowledge Systems and others.

Hence option 2nd is correct.