The HRD Ministry will soon launch 50 DTH educational channels.
This was stated by the Secretary (HE) Sh Ashok Thakur in New Delhi
today. He said these channels will be different from the existing
programmes on air including Gyan Darshan as new one will be more
interactive. He said these channels will air programmes which will be
live and not pre recorded. Saying that the new initiatives will be one
of the largest anywhere in the world of its kind, Sh. Thakur said later
on the number of the channels will be increased to one thousand. He said
that the Ministry has spent more than one billion dollars for ICT. Over
400 universities and twenty thousand colleges have been linked with
bandwidth. He said there is a great potential to increase its usage.
Highlighting the potential of the National Programme on National Mission
on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT),
the Secretary said that the entire country can be made into a big
classroom which will help improve quality of instructions in engineering
colleges particularly belonging to the remote areas. He said that the
Ministry may approach AICTE to make on-line education mandatory and
integral part of education system. Asking to promote virtual lab, Sh.
Thakur said it should be possible to share classes from IITs to other
engineering colleges by making the system more user friendly.
Dr. S.S. Mantha, chairman, AICTE focused on promoting quality
initiatives in the country. He said that rapid expansion in institutions
has led to the decline in quality. The need of the hour therefore is to
nurture quality in the institutions.
The one day workshop was organized by the HRD Ministry with AICTE. More
than 150 engineering colleges from the National Capital Region of Delhi
participated in the programme.
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