PM eVIDYA
- July 22, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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PM eVIDYA
Subject: Government Schemes
Context: On Sunday Nirmala Sitharaman the finance minister has announced the PM eVIDYA program for students. This program is announced for the top 100 universities of the country and for schools also.
Concept:
PM eVidya is a unique and innovative venture by the Ministry of Education, Government of India to facilitate multi-mode access to digital/online teaching-learning contents of various types among students and teachers.
The uniqueness of the PM e-Vidya lies with its comprehensive accessibility for all as it caters the education content to all with its multi-mode set-up of remote learning platforms including internet, radio, community radio, podcast, and TV.
Major initiatives of PM eVidya is
- 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 gradesare available on it.
- One earmarked SwayamPrabha 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.