Lok Sabha Question No. 989 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-17
Subject: e-Education
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: ABHISHEK SINGH, DEVJI MANSINGRAM PATEL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 989 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17.12.2018

## e-Education

## 989 .   SHRI ABHISHEK SINGH: SHRI DEVJI M. PATEL:

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Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government proposes to promote education through e-education methods and open schools/universities and correspondence courses as ensuring the access of education to all the people and reduce high drop out rate in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c)  the  details  of  fund  spent  by  the  Government  on  various  programmes  and  schemes  for imparting  education  through  e-education  during  the  last  three  years  and  current  year, State/UT- wise and year-wise;
- (d) the details of beneficiaries who have been imparted training under various programmes and schemes for providing e-education, State/UT-wise along with the status of progress of such schemes; and
- (e) whether the Government propose to start e-education in all the Universities/schools in the country and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

- (a) &(b) Yes,  Madam.  The  key  e-Learning  Projects  running  by  the  Ministry  of  Human Resource Development (MHRD) are as follows:
-  ICT in Education Curricula for School system:

ICT  in  Education  Curricula  for  students,  teachers  and  teacher  educators  has  been developed at the national level and being implemented across the country. 805 MRPs/ KRPs of thirty six States/UTs were oriented on ICT curriculum for students and teachers and their roll out in respective states. Guidelines for teacher, student and schools on cyber safety and security have been published.

##  e-pathshala :

e-pathshala has been developed by NCERT (National Council for Educational Research and Training) for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of other print and non-print materials. So far, 3444 audios and videos, 698 e-books (e-pubs) and 504 flip books have been made available on the portal and mobile app.

##  Shagun portal:

A web portal called ShaGun (from the words Shaala and Gunvatta) which has two parts, one of which is a Repository of good practices, photographs, videos, studies, newspaper articles etc  on  school  education,  State  /UT  wise  has  been  developed  which  is  in  public  domain.  Its purpose is to showcase success stories and also to provide a platform for all stakeholders to learn from each other. This also instills a positive competitive spirit among all the States and UTs.

##  National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) -

The  National  Repository  of  Open  Educational  Resources  (NROER)  is  an  initiative  to bring  together  all  digital  and  digitisable  resources  across  all  stages  of  school  education  and teacher education. So far, 13635 files including 401 collections, 2722 documents, 565 interactive, 1664 audios, 2581 images and 6105 videos have been made available over the portal. State/ UTs are motivated to contribute resources on NROER and create OERs for their own State/ UT.

##  SWAYAM:

The 'Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' (SWAYAM) an integrated platform  for  online  courses,  using  Information  and  Communication  Technology  (ICT)  and covering  school  (9 th to  12 th )  to  Post  Graduate  Level.    SWAYAM  provides  one  integrated platform and portal for online courses, using information and communication technology (ICT) and  covering  all  higher  education  subjects  and  skill  sector  courses  to  ensure  that  the  every student in the country has access to the best quality higher education at affordable cost.  It also offers  online  courses  for  students,  teachers  and  teacher  educators.  It  may  be  accessed  on swayam.gov.in.  Besides, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is promoting education through e-learning methods by providing courses on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the portal. There are 44 courses of NIOS offered on SWAYAM platform - 14 at secondary level,  16  at  senior  secondary  level,  4  vocational  courses  and  10  courses  of  Diploma  in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed.).

##  SWAYAM PRABHA:-

A programme for utilization of satellite communication technologies for transmission of educational e-contents through 32 National Channels i.e. SWAYAM  PRABHA DTH-TV has been launched. CIET-NCERT is the national coordinator for one DTH TV channel i.e., Kishore Manch (#31) and has started feeding a 24x7 educational TV channel w.e.f. 09.07.2018.

Everyday four hour fresh slot is telecast and repeated 5 more times in 24 hours to provide learning opportunities for the stake holders, as per their convenience.  Besides, NIOS is running 5 channels for teachers, for secondary and senior secondary levels and for sign language.

##  National Digital Library (NDL):-

The  National  Digital  Library  of  India  (NDL)  is  a  project  to  develop  a  framework  of virtual  repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility.  There are more than 153 Lakh digital books available through the NDL.  It may be accessed on ndl.gov.in.

(c) The amount spent on e-Education projects during the FY 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 and current year are as follows:

(Rs in crore)

|   SN | Name of scheme                     |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-2018 |   2018-19 |
|------|------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-------------|-----------|
|    1 | SWAYAMproject                      |     52    |     61    |       63.07 |     44.97 |
|    2 | e-pathshala, NROER, MOOCs (SWAYAM) |      1.9  |      2.17 |        3.01 |      1.39 |
|    3 | e-learning by NIOS                 |      0.77 |      0.69 |        0.81 |      0.5  |

These funds are not released State/UT wise.

(d) National Council for Educational Research & Training (NCERT)  has developed a team of 800 teachers as State Resource Groups (SRGs) on ICT in Education across all 36 States/ UTs. NCERT  is  also  developing  MOOCs  in  12  subject  areas  for  classes  IX  -  XII  and  capacity building courses for teachers. So far, 22 courses have been developed and completed in 2 cycles on  SWAYAM  platform.  The  web  portal  of  e-pathshala  has  3.74  crore  visitors,  2.18  crore YouTube views, 1.82 million app downloads and a rating of 4.4 out of 5 on Google play store and 4.5 out of 5 on windows store. Also, 35,050 users have downloaded the 'PINDICS' app of e-Pathshala  from  Google  Play  Store.  Besides,  NIOS  is  providing  e-education  to  beneficiaries which include D.El.Ed course for 13.78 lakh in-service untrained teachers, 6632 at secondary level,  9978  at  senior  secondary  level  and  2293  for  vocational  education  through  MOOCs courses.

(e) The  ICT  component  of  Centrally  sponsored  scheme  of  Samagra  Shiskha  envisages covering all Government and Government Aided schools from classes VI to XII and Teacher Education  Institutions  (TEIs),  subject  to  the  availability  of  budgetary  provision.  Further, University Grant Commission (UGC) has notified on 4 th July, 2018 the regulation regarding the minimum standards of instruction for  the  grant  of  Certificate  or  Diploma  or  Degree,  through online mode, delivered through interactive technology using internet

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