Lok Sabha Question No. 1877 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-19
Subject: Government Digital Portals/Offline Learning Programmes in Rural Areas
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Ajay Kumar Mandal, Locket Chatterjee, Sunil Kumar Pintu, Navneet Ravi Rana, Ram Kripal Yadav, Dileshwar Kamait, Ramesh Chander Kaushik

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1877 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19/12/2022

## Government Digital Portals/Offline Learning Programmes in Rural Areas

†1877. SHRI AJAY KUMAR MANDAL:

MS. LOCKET CHATTERJEE:

SHRI SUNIL KUMAR PINTU:

SHRIMATI NAVNEET RAVI RANA:

SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV:

SHRI DILESHWAR KAMAIT:

SHRI RAMESH CHANDER KAUSHIK:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the access of various Digital Portals of the Government like Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA), Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM),  e-Pathshala,  National  Repository  of  Open  Educational  Resources  (NROER)  etc. particularly in the rural areas;
- (b) whether the offline learning programmes on DD channels, Radios, Community Radios, CBSE podcasts,  Toll  Free  Numbers  etc.  to  help  imparting  education  to  the  poor  students  have  been started in the rural areas;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether any assessment/survey has been carried out to ascertain the extent of access of the said portals during the pandemic; and
- (e) if so, the details, district-wise especially in West Bengal, Bihar, Amravati in Maharashtra and Haryana?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

- (a) to (c) To facilitate  the  online  learning  by  all  students  a  comprehensive  initiative  called PM eVIDYA has been initiated  as  part  of  AtmaNirbhar  Bharat  Abhiyaan  on  17th  May,  2020,

which unifies all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multimode access to education. The initiative includes:

- DIKSHA (one nation, one digital platform) is the nation's digital infrastructure for providing quality e-content for school education in States/UTs and QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades are available on it.
- One earmarked Swayam Prabha TV channel per class from 1 to 12 (one class, one channel).
- Extensive use of Radio, Community radio and CBSE Podcast- Shiksha Vani.
- Special  e-content  for  visually  and  hearing  impaired  developed  on  Digitally  Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube.

All these schemes/programmes are available in the public domain to all the students across the nation.

Learning  programmes  have  also  being  started  for  all  the  students  in  the  form  of  offline learning  tools  in  the  form  of  radio,  community  radio  and  CBSE  podcasts,  toll  free  numbers, missed call, SMS based requests for audio content, localized radio content for edutainment etc.

(d) & (e) Education  being  in  the  concurrent  list  of  the  Constitution  and  majority  of  the schools, colleges and university are under the domain of respective State and UT Governments. The  Ministry  of  Education  through  National  Council  of  Educational  Research  and  Training (NCERT)  had  conducted  a  survey  related  to  online  teaching  learning  in  Kendriya  Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools. Based on the outcomes of the survey, Learning Enhancement Guidelines have been issued, which may be accessed at the following links:

https://www.mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload\_files/mhrd/files/Learning\_Enhancement\_0.pdf

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