Lok Sabha Question No. 2541 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-17
Subject: The TeacherApp
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Ms Kangna Ranaut, Shri Damodar Agrawal, Shri Godam Nagesh, Shri Chavda Vinod Lakhamshi, Dr. Manna Lal Rawat, Shri Chintamani Maharaj, Shri Bibhu Prasad Tarai, Shri Anoop Pradhan Valmiki, Shri Alok Sharma, Dr. Rajesh Mishra, Shri Gajendra  Singh Patel, Shri Kanwar Singh Tanwar

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2541

## ANSWERED ON 17/03/2025

## The TeacherApp

## †2541. Shri Alok Sharma:

Shri Godam Nagesh:

Shri Anoop Pradhan Valmiki:

Shri Chintamani Maharaj:

Shri Gajendra Singh Patel:

Shri Kanwar Singh Tanwar:

Dr. Rajesh Mishra:

Dr. Manna Lal Rawat:

Shri Damodar Agrawal:

Ms Kangna Ranaut:

Shri Chavda Vinod Lakhamshi:

Shri Bibhu Prasad Tarai:

## Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  proposes  to  integrate  The  TeacherApp  with  the existing  national  teacher  training  programmes  under  the  National  Education Policy (NEP), 2020;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government is likely to collaborate/proposes to collaborate with the State Governments and private organisations to expand the accessibility of The TeacherApp;
- (d) if so, the details thereof;
- (e) the names of the States and private organisation willing to participate in the said programme/collaboration;
- (f)  whether the Government has any scheme to provide teaching materials and contents in regional languages under The TeacherApp to improve its accessibility; and
- (g) if so, the details thereof along with the timeline fixed for implementation of the said scheme?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (Shri Jayant Chaudhary)

(a) to (g): The Ministry of Education has its own portal and app namely DIKSHA portal and DIKSHA app, which is presently used by all the teachers across the country and across all schools including private schools. The Ministry, through National Council of Education, Research and Training (NCERT) has launched a National Mission to improve learning outcomes at the elementary level through an Integrated Teacher Training Programme called NISHTHA - National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement under Samagra Shiksha. NISHTHA is a capacity building programme for teachers, head teachers, teacher educators and education administrators in the school education sector. NISHTHA empowers the teachers and school heads with the digital skills that can be further used to enhance digital literacy of students. NISHTHA (Elementary, Secondary, FLN and ECCE) covers various courses in Indian languages. Under this, ICT in teaching-learning including Artificial Intelligence is one of the courses covered. It is to be mentioned that all the NISHTHA  integrated Teacher Training Programmes have dedicated course modules on use and integration of technology in school education - teaching learning and assessment.

Teacher  training  through  NISHTHA  online  has  been  onboarded  on  the  Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) platform since October, 2020. DIKSHA portal and DIKSHA app is a store house of nearly 7,438 e-books, 3.69 lakh e-content and 21,558 e-courses for students, teachers, teacher educators and parents. The portal has contents including primers in 133 languages including 7 foreign  languages.  More  than  63  Lakh  teachers  have  completed  NISHTHA trainings on DIKSHA portal.

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