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New Delhi : Union HRD Ministry has taken several prompt, new, and unique initiatives to ensure that the education of learners should not get affected by the challenging situation arising out of Covid 19. On the direction of MHRD, NIOS has initiated a unique method to ensure effective schooling to reach the unreached directly at doorstep.
Fulfilling the objectives of quality education, content is being made available online through ‘SWAYAM’ MOOC platform of MHRD for various subjects from class 9th to 12th. Along with Self Learning Material, ‘SWAYAM’ portal provides video lectures and facility of self-assessment. The questions and queries of the learners are also being resolved through discussion forum. In addition, for those who do not have much access to internet, these video lectures are telecast on MHRD SWAYAMPRABHA TV channels with Live sessions to interact with their teachers and subject experts. The students preparing for JEE and NEET are benefiting from this initiative hile sitting at home.
In wake of COVID-19 pandemic, NIOS has made excellent innovations in telecast of Live session through Skype in joint association with KVS, NVS, CBSE & NCERT through Swayam Prabha DTH Channel Panini (#27), Channel Sharda (#28) of NIOS and Channel Kishore Manch (#31) of NCERT. Now, the subject experts are able to connect for the Live telecast of SWAYAMPRABHA through the SKYPE from their home.
The learners can watch the lesson based educational programmes on these DTH Channels and NIOS YouTube channel (6 hours of recorded broadcast) from 7 am to 1 pm followed by 6 hours of Live session from 1 pm to 7 pm with four different subject experts for one and half hour session each. Learners can ask questions directly to the subject experts from their home through phone call on the number displayed during Live session and through ‘Student Portal’ of NIOS web site directly in live telecast, according to a PIB release.
On the request of Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Union I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar Tata Sky and Airtel DTH operators have agreed to air three Swayam Prabha DTH channels on their DTH platform. Now these three Swayam Prabha DTH channels are available through all DTH service providers besides DD-DTH and Jio TV App. People can request their DTH ‘Service Provider’ for these channels without any extra cost as these are free to air channels.