The document discusses various initiatives and digital platforms implemented by the Government of India to enhance education through information and communication technology (ICT). It covers programs like e-ShodhSindhu for access to e-resources, Swayam for MOOCs, and Diksha for school education, aiming to improve enrollment and learning quality. Additionally, it addresses the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights new efforts to ensure equitable access to education across different regions.

1. Information Literacy
Guided by
Miss. Udita Gupta
Assistant Professor
Central University of Haryana
National Programmes in IL
Presentation by
Km Keerti Singh
B.Ed, 1st Semester
200142
SOE, CUH

2. Department of higher education
Technology (NMEICT) has been envisaged as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to leverage the potential
of ICT, in teaching and learning process for the benefit of all the learners in Higher Education
Institutions in any time any where mode. This was expected to be a major intervention in enhancing
the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher Education by 5 percentage points during the XI Five
Year Plan period.
Bharat Padhe Online: Intensifying Online Education

3. E-ShodhSindhu Digital content
E-journals
The e-ShodhSindhu will continue to provide current as well as archival access to more
than 15,000 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.
The main objective of the e-ShodhSindu: Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources is
to provide access to qualitative electronic resources including full-text, bibliographic and
factual databases to academic institutions at a lower rates of subscription.

4. Shodh Shudhhi (PDS)
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 "Shodh
Shuddhi" which provides access to Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) to all
universities/Institutions in India since Sept 1, 2019.
● Central Universities
● State Universities
● Deemed to be University
● Private Universities
● Centrally funded Technical Institutions(CFTIs)
● Inter University Centre (IUCs) of UGC
Under this initiative, URKUND a Web Based Plagiarism Detection Software system is being
provided to all users of universities/Intuitions in the country.

5. Shodhganga Digital content
A reservoir of Indian Theses
● The UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D
Degree, Regulation, 2016) dated 5th May 2016 mandates submission of electronic version
of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities with an aim to facilitate open
access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide.
● Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories,
not only ensure easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in
raising the standard and quality of research.
● This would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting
from the "poor visibility" and the "unseen" factor in research output. As per the
Regulation, the responsibility of hosting, maintaining and making the digital repository of
Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertation (called "Shodhganga"), accessible to all
institutions and universities, is assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre.

6. Vidwan Expert Database and National Researcher Network
Expert Database and National Researcher Network
● 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) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT
(NME-ICT).
● 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.

7. Virtual Lab Accelerated Hands on learning
Web-enabled experiments designed for remote- operation
1. To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering.
These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level
as well as to research scholars.
2. To enthuse students to conduct experiments by arousing their curiosity. This would
help them in learning basic and advanced concepts through remote experimentation.
3. To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where
the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web-resources,
video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self evaluation.
4. To share costly equipment and resources, which are otherwise available to limited
number of users due to constraints on time and geographical distances.

8. Spoken Tutorial Accelerated Hands on learning
Tutorial in IT application
Spoken Tutorial Forums is a friendly online discussion forum. You can join existing
discussions or start new topics, and get lots of replies from the Spoken Tutorial
community. Registration to Forums is completely free and takes only one minute.
Forums is very easy to use, even for computer newbies. It's very easy to format forum
posts with fonts, colors, and many other options. You can attach files to your posts directly
from your computer. You can give links to webpages or videos from other video websites.
Be assured of an answer within 3 working days of posting your question

9. Fossee Accelerated Hands on learning
Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education
FOSSEE project promotes the use of FLOSS tools to improve the quality of education in
our country. It aims to reduce dependency on proprietary software in educational
institutions.It encourages the use of FLOSS tools through various activities to ensure
commercial software is replaced by equivalent FLOSS tools. It also develop new FLOSS
tools and upgrade existing tools to meet requirements in academia and research.
The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.

10. e-Yantra Accelerated Hands on learning
● 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.
● The winners of this competition will be eligible for summer internship at IITB
through e-Yantra Summer Internship Program.
● 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.

11. National Digital Library Digital content(June 19, 2018)
● National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is
not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the
learner community.
● NDLI provides user group-specific services such as Examination Preparatory for School and
College students and job aspirants. Services for Researchers and general learners are also
provided.
● NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for 10 most
widely used Indian languages.
● It is built to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long
learners, all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners.
● It is designed to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world
and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. It is
developed, operated and maintained from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

12. e-PG PathshalaDigital content(19-03-2014)
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 science etc.
e-Adhyayan is a platform to provide 700+ e-Books for the Post-Graduate
Courses. All the e-Books are derived from e-PG Pathshala courses. It also
facilitates play-list of video content.
UGC-MOOCs is one of vertical to produce course on Post Graduate subjects
in SWAYAM (Online Courses, An MHRD initiatives). UGC is one of the
national coordinator of SWAYAM & INFLIBNET is technical partner for
UGC-MOOCs.
e-Pathya is one the verticals of e-PG Pathshala which is software driven
course / content package that facilitates students pursuing higher education
(PG level) in distance learning as well as campus learning mode. it also
facilitate offline access.

13. SWAYAMPRABHA Audio-Video e-content
View digital courses on TV
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.
Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics*

14. Swayam Audio-Video e-content
Massive Open Online Courses
● 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.
● Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however
learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that
come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates.
● Eligibility for the certificate will be announced on the course page and learners will get
certificates only if this criteria is matched. Universities/colleges approving credit transfer
for these courses can use the marks/certificate obtained in these courses for the same.

15. SAMARTH E - Governance, ICT Initiatives
University Enterprise Resource Planning
Samarth is a University Information Management System project designed and developed
by IIC, Delhi University in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, MOE (earlier
known as the Ministry of Human Resource Development,MHRD) which aims to
implement an automation engine for various universities and HEIs. It has 9 core modules
and 40+ sub modules to smoothen the functioning of business processes. Samarth has
helped the universities to migrate from paper, unreliable third party ERP systems to a
system which is more secure, reliable and scalable.

16. Global Initiative of academic networks
❏ GIAN was formally launched in 2015 (30 nov) by union minister for human resource
development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani at IIT Gandhi Nagar. GIAN is aimed at tapping the
greatest talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs across the country, internationally to
encourage their engagement with higher education institutes in india so far to utilize the
country’s existing academic resources.
❏ Secondary from 38 countries are presently scheduled to deliver courses, including 46
academics from USA, 9 from UK, 6 each from Germany and Australia, and 2 from Israel.The
list of countries includes Russia, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, portugal,
Netherlands, Malaysia and South Korea.
❏ 13 disciplines and 352 courses to be taught in 68 national institutions.

17. e-Acharya:A gateway to all learners
LIBRARIAN’s Blog
e-Acharya is an integrated e-content portal developed under National Mission for Education through
ICT (NME-ICT). The portal provides facility to search and browse the learners all learning materials
includes audio, video, textual materials, etc. through a single interface. The portal cover quality
learning resources from top institutions in the country in eight subject categories viz Agriculture
Science, Biological Science, Chemical Science, Physical Science, Medical and Health Sciences,
Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

18. DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing)
● DIKSHA is a national platform for school education, an initiative of National Council for
Education Research and Training (NCERT), Ministry of Education. DIKSHA was developed
based on the core principles of open architecture, open access, open licensing diversity, choice
and autonomy as outlined in the Strategy and Approach Paper for the National Teacher Platform
released by the former Hon’ Minister for Human Resources Development Shri Prakash Javdekar
in May, 2017.
● DIKSHA itself was launched by the Hon’ Vice President of India on Sept 5th, 2017 and has
since been adopted by 35 states/UT’s across as well as CBSE and NCERT and by crores of
learners and teachers.
● DIKSHA can be accessed by learners and teachers across the country and currently supports 18+
languages and the various curricula of NCERT, CBSE and SCERTs across India. The platform is
being leveraged and developed for school education, foundational learning programs and to
support inclusive learning for underserved and differently-abled communities of learners and
teachers.

19. DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing)

20. e-Granthalaya
● 08/01/2015, 3200 libraries.
● e-Granthalaya is a Digital Platform developed by National Informatics Centre, Ministry of
Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India for Government Libraries for
Automation of In-house activities as well as member services and Networking for resource
sharing.
● On this platform, NIC provides a complete ICT solution with integrated Library Management
Software, Digital Library Module, Cloud hosting environment and a Library Portal (OPAC) with
NICSI empaneled Roll-out Services and support.
● e-Granthalaya is useful to transform traditional libraries to e-Library with Digital Library
Services and to provide various online member services using Single Window Access System.

21. Vidya-mitra
2018
Vidya-mitra is an online learning portal for all the e-content projects developed under the NME-ICT
(National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology), MHRD. The
portal provides facility to search and browse all hosted content wherein a learner can easily access the
desired material including audio/video learning material, textual material, multimedia-enriched
materials etc. through a single interface. Moreover, features of faceted search, usage statistics,
projectwise access, My-Space are incorporated in this portal.

22. Annual refresher programme in teaching(ARPIT)
● The MHRD has launched online ARPIT on 13th
November, 2018, a major and unique initiative of online
professional development of 15 lakhs higher education
faculty using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM. In the first
stage, 66 discipline-specific National Resource Centres
(NRCs) have been identified by MHRD, wherein Course
Coordinators have prepared online training material, with
focus on latest developments in the discipline.
● ARPIT is going to be an ongoing exercise, so that every
year NRCs will continuously develop new refresher
module in their earmarked discipline each year and the
training material will be uploaded and made available
through SWAYAM.

23. Leadership for academicians programme (LEAP)
● LEAP is a three weeks flagship Leadership Development training programme (2 weeks domestic and
one week foreign training) for second level academic functionaries in public funded higher education
institutions under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching
(PMMMNMTT) Scheme.
➔ To prepare second tier academic heads who are potentially likely to assume leadership roles in the
future.
➔ To fulfill a long perceived need of preparing senior faculty, such as Deans, Head of Departments
for future governance roles as leaders in academic institutions.
❏ SKILLS EQUIPPED
Problem-solving, handling stress, team building work, conflict management, developing
communication skills, understanding and coping with the complexity and challenges of governance in
HEIs, financial & general administration.

24. Initiatives taken by Finance ministry for education sector
On may 2020 Union Finance and corporate Affairs minister Nirmala sitharaman has announced
several initiatives to boost the education sector in New Delhi to boost the access and equity in
education and improve the gross enrolment ratio in the coming years.
The initiatives show up hello as there is a new challenge and several opportunities for education
system in the country due to covid-19 pandemic.
The government is committed to ensuring learning for all with equity, so as to Cover all students all
levels of education and in all geographical locations even in the remotest parts of the country.
One Nation, one digital platform and 1 class 1 channel will ensure that quality education material
would reach the students present in fastest area of country.

25. PM e-VIDYA
Due to the non-availability of the internet
or smartphone has been started with the
aim to have the facility of study. In the
COVID-19 epidemic, all the school,
college is off so the government launched
the PMeVidya program a multi-model
digital online learning education platform
for all the students and teachers that is a
good initiative by the Govt. of India.

26. Important Programme Launched during PM eVidya Program
MANODARPAN
An initiative for psychosocial support of students, teachers, and families and emotional well being to
be launched by the central government of India.
CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK
New National Curriculum and Pedagogical framework for school, early childhood, and teachers was
launched this programme is integrated with global and 21st-century skill requirements.
LITERACY AND NUMERACY MISSION 2020
National Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Mission for ensuring that every child attains levels and
outcomes in grade 5 by 2025 was launched in December 2020.

27. References
● https://nta.ac.in/Arpitexam
● https://gian.iitkgp.ac.in/
● https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/
● https://nmeict.ac.in/
● https://egranthalaya.nic.in/images/e-Granthalaya.png
● https://diksha.gov.in/data/

28. Thank you!
Presentation by
Km Keerti Singh
B.Ed, 1st Semester
200142
SOE, CUH