Lok Sabha Question No. 2972 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-07
Subject: Conducive Learning Environment
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Amar Singh

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2972

## ANSWERED ON 07.08.2023

## Conducive Learning Environment

## 2972. DR. AMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state: (a)  whether  the  Government  concurs  with  the  view  that  every  child  in  the  country deserves to learn in a conducive learning environment that accelerates their learning outcomes; (b)  if  so,  the  details  of  the  steps  that  have  been  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  by  the Government to provide each child with one period of dedicated learning through the use of personalized adaptive software, or intelligent tutoring systems; and (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

(a)  :    The  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  has  launched  an  Integrated Centrally Sponsored Scheme for School Education-Samagra Shiksha with effect from the year 2018-19.  Samagra Shiksha scheme has been aligned with the recommendations of NEP 2020 to ensure that all children have access to quality education with an equitable and inclusive classroom environment which should take care of their diverse background, multilingual  needs,  different  academic  abilities  and  make  them  active  participants  in  the learning process. Under Samagra Shiksha, approaches such as remedial teaching and bridge courses have  been  used  at  the  elementary  level  and  more  progressive  approaches  such  as Learning Enhancement Programme are implemented by identifying the learning gaps and equipping students with the core learning  per-requisites  for  the  particular  grade. Moreover, various digital initiatives have  been  taken by the ministry  to facilitate the learning environment.

(b) & (c): A comprehensive initiative called PM eVIDYA has been initiated as part of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan on 17th May, 2020, which unifies all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multi-mode access to education. The econtents/programme  uploaded  under  PM  e-VIDYA  are  based  on  NCERT  curriculum. Besides  this,  many  states  have  also  offered  and  uploaded  their  e-contents  for  PM  eVIDYA,  in  line  with  the  curriculum  of  their  education  boards/SCERTs.  The  initiative includes:

- I. DIKSHA  the  nation's  digital  infrastructure  for  providing  quality  e-content  for  school education in states/UTs and QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades (one nation, one  digital  platform). As  on  24.07.2023  DIKSHA  has  more  than  524  crores  learning sessions,  more  than  6,125  crore  learning  minutes  with  more  than  26  lakhs  average daily  page  hits.  A  total  of 3,17,496, pieces  of  e-contents  are  live  on  DIKSHA  as  on date.
- II. One earmarked Swayam Prabha TV channel per class from 1 to 12 (one class, one channel): The same content is simulcast through YouTube and Jio channels.
- III. Extensive  use  of  Radio,  Community  radio  and  CBSE  Podcast-  Shiksha  Vani:  4,123 pieces  of  curriculum-based  radio  programmes  (Classes  1  -12)  for  its  dissemination/ broadcast on 400 Radio Stations (11 GyanVani FM Radio Stations, 257 Community Radio Stations), 132 All India Radio stations, Podcasts on iRadio and JioSaavn Mobile apps. Till now 3,277 live programs have been broadcast on iRadio.
- IV.  Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube:  In all 4,247  textbook  based  ISL  videos  recorded  and  954 videos  have  been  uploaded  on DIKSHA. A 10,000 words ISL dictionary has been uploaded on DIKSHA. 4,116 audio books chapters uploaded on DIKSHA. PRASHAST APP: App for Disability Screening Checklist for Schools.

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