Schemes and initiatives of Government of India in Education

1. Dr. Pooja Walia
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
MIZORAM UNIVERSITY, AIZAWL

2. National Mission on Education through ICT

3. Initiatives under NMEICT
Ministry of Human Resource Development has taken
many initiatives under NMEICT such as:
• e-yantra NDL
• e-PG pathshala Vidwan
• Virtual Labs Spoken Tutorials
• Fossee Shodh sindhu
• Shodh Shudhi Shodh ganga
• SWAYAM SWAYAM PRABHA

4. It is a NMEICT initiative
which promotes
enginnering and its
application in colleges.
Following schemes are
running under this
initiative

5. e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC)
e-Yantra Robotics Competition (eYRC) is a unique annual
competition launched in the month of August every year for
undergraduate students in science and engineering colleges,
polytechnic. Selected teams are given a robotic kit complete
with accessories and video tutorials to help them learn basic
concepts in embedded systems and microcontroller
programming. Abstracts of real world problems assigned as
"themes" are then implemented by the teams using the
robotic kits.

6. e-Yantra Innovation Challenge
e-Yantra Innovation Challenge (formerly known as e-
Yantra Ideas Competition) is a competition to
encourage innovative projects from robotics labs set up
through the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) in
colleges across the world

7. e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI)
e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) is a college level program under which
colleges are encouraged to setup robotics labs. It is designed as a scalable and
sustainable approach that addresses infrastructure creation and teacher
training – to create an eco-system at the colleges to impart effective
engineering education.
eLSI provides:
(i) guidance and support for establishing robotics labs - three robotic kits are
given to each participating colleges
(ii) a two-phased training for teachers:Two Days Workshop & Task Based
Training

8. e-Yantra Symposium(eYS)
e-Yantra Symposium(eYS) is an annual event at IIT-
Bombay -- to bring together colleges which have set up
robotics labs through the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative
(eLSI). The goal is to share projects and brainstorm new
ideas for improving pedagogy and the quality of BE
projects. This event ensures sustainable use of Robotics
labs set up through the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative
(eLSI).

9. e-Yantra Resource Development Center
e-Yantra Resource Development Center (eYRDC) is a portal designed
exclusively for eLSI colleges through which we share resources for
teachers to help them use their e-Yantra labs in an effective manner.
Motivation
Transforming e-Yantra labs at colleges to:
(i) Innovation hubs for incubating exciting B.E. projects
(ii) Labs for ALL to conduct hands-on experiments through Lesson
Plans, Lab Experiments, Tutorials, ......

10. (NMEICT) has sponsored the National
Digital Library of India (NDLI) project
and arranged funding through
Ministry of Education To make
available to the learners community
learning resources through a single-
window.It is a virtual repository of
learning resources that provides a host
of services for the learner community.

11. • School
• CBSE Examination
Prepratory
• Engineering
• Science
• Humanities
• Literature
• Law & Management
• Scholary Publication
• Data Set
• Documents & Videos
• Journal & Conference

12. VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of
scientists / researchers and other faculty members
working at leading academic institutions and other R
& D organisation involved in teaching and research
in India. It provides important information about
expert's background, contact address, experience,
scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments,
researcher identity, etc. The database developed
and maintained by Information and Library Network
Centre (INFLIBNET). The database would be
instrumental in selection of panels of experts for
various committees, taskforce, established by the
Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and
evaluation purposes.

13. The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET is set-up using an open
source digital repository software. Shodhganga
provides a platform for research scholars to deposit
their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire
scholarly community in open access. The repository
has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate
and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and
Dissertations) submitted by the researchers.The
Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform
for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses
and make it available to the entire scholarly
community in open access.

14. The e-ShodhSindhu is provided current
as well as archival access to more than
10,000 core and peer-reviewed journals
and a number of bibliographic, citation
and factual databases in different
disciplines from a large number of
publishers and aggregators to its
member institutions including centrally-
funded technical institutions,
universities and colleges that are
covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of
the UGC Act.

15. Based on the recommendation of
Sub-Committee, National Steering
Committee (NSC) of e-ShodhSindhu,
The Ministry of Education, Govt. of
India has initiated a programme
"ShodhShuddhi" which provides
access to Plagiarism Detection
Software (PDS)'URKUND' to all
universities/Institutions in India since
Sept 1, 2019.

16. Online content for PG course is
available on this portal. The content
and its quality being the key
component of education system,
high quality, curriculum-based,
interactive e-content in 70 subjects
across all disciplines of social
sciences, arts, fine arts and
humanities, natural & mathematical
sciences is uploaded here.

17. FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open
Source Software for Education)
project promotes the use of
FLOSS tools in academia and
research. The FOSSEE Project
promotes the use of FLOSS
tools to improve the quality of
education and research.

18. • Sclib : For Numerica Computation
• Python : For Programming Language
• eSim: For Circuit Design, Simulation & Analysis
• osdag: Design Steel Structure using Graphical User
Interface
• DWSIM : Chemical Process Simulator
• openFOAM : For Fluid Flow involving Chemical Reactions
• open modelica etc

19. The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 34 DTH
channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality
educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the
GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be new
content for at least (4) hours which would be
repeated 5 more times in a day, allowing the
students to choose the time of their
convenience. The channels are uplinked from
BISAG, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided
by NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and
NIOS. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web
portal.

20. SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve
the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The
objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including
the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who
have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able
to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.
This is done through a platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in
classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at
any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the
country and are available, free of cost to any learner. More than 1,000 specially
chosen faculty and teachers from across the country have participated in preparing
these courses.

21. • AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses
• NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering
• UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education
• CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education
• NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education
• NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education
• IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students
• IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies
• NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training
programme

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Free and Open Source Software all by oneself. Our self-paced, multi-lingual courses ensure that
anybody with a computer and a desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in
a language of their choice. All the content published on this website are shared under the CC BY
SA license.
Available courses are simple and easy to follow even for a beginner but they also meet the
growing needs of the learner. Engaging digital content ensures that learning happens at all levels
- Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Our content mandates side-by-side practice thereby
ensuring that learners are actively learning. Many of the software taught, are used in various
disciplines of Engineering, pure Sciences and several other Under-Grad and Post-Grad studies,
and can be extended to Commerce, Arts and Management streams as well. Alongside these,
there are some courses relevant at School level, too, which help school students to visualise
difficult concepts of Math and Science. These can also be used by Teachers to prepare lesson
plans, explain abstract concepts and give digital assignments to students.

23. Thanks a lot.
poojawaliakuk@gmail.com
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