DIKSHA (Digital Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure) is the Government of India’s national digital platform for school education. Built and maintained by the NCERT under the aegis of the Ministry of Education (MoE), it delivers open educational resources (OER), large‑scale teacher professional development, analytics and a suite of interoperable digital services in 36 Indian languages.
The platform was declared India’s “One Nation, One Digital Platform” for school education in May 2020 as part of the PM e‑Vidya programme announced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
History
- September 2017 – Strategy paper for the National Teacher Platform released by then HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar; public launch on 5 September 2017 (Teachers’ Day) by Vice‑President M. Venkaiah Naidu.
- May 2020 – Integrated into PM e‑Vidya as the core digital pillar during nationwide school closures.
- July 2021 – Identified by the Prime Minister as a foundational building block of the National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR).
- April
…
Source: Wikipedia
No Comments yet!