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others. DIKSHA has experienced more than 800 crore hits since lockdown. In April, 2020,
VidyaDaan portal was launched on DIKSHA as a national content contribution program that
leverages the DIKSHA platform and tools to seek and allow contribution/donation of e-learning
resources for school education by educational bodies, private bodies, and individual experts.
b. One class, one TV channels through Swayam Prabha TV Channels: Swayam Prabha
DTH channels are meant to support and reach those who do not have access to the internet.
12 channels are devoted to telecast high quality educational programmes in school education.
The pilot/beta version has been launched in October, 2020.

c. Extensive use of Radio, Community radio and Podcasts: Radio broadcasting is being
used for children in remote areas who are not online. 303 pieces of curriculum-based radio
programmes (for Classes 1-8) have been produced by CIET-NCERT for its dissemination/
broadcast on 12 GyanVani FM Radio Stations, 60 Community Radio Stations, iRadio and Jio
Saavn Mobile apps. 289 Community Radio Stations have also been used to broadcast content
for NIOS for grades 9 to 12. A Podcast of CBSE called Shiksha Vani is being effectively used
by learners of grades 9 to12. It contains over 430 pieces of audio content for all subjects of
grades 9 to 12.

d. For the differently-abled: One DTH channel is being operated specifically for hearing
impaired students in sign language. For visually and hearing-impaired students, study
material has been developed in Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in
sign language; both are available on NIOS website/ YouTube. 25 NCERT textbooks have
also been converted into DAISY format.

2. Swayam MOOCs for open schools and pre-service education: Online MOOC courses relating
to NIOS (grades 9 to 12 of open schooling) are uploaded on SWAYAM portal. Around 92 courses
have started and 1.5 crore students are enrolled under Swayam MOOCs.
3. Funding support for digital initiative: To mitigate the effect of COVID-19, ` 818.17 crore
is allotted to states/UTs to promote online learning through digital initiatives, and ` 267.86
crore for online teacher training to ensure continuous professional development of teachers under
Samagra Shiksha Scheme.
4. National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER): NROER is an open storehouse
of e-content. Nearly 17,500 pieces of e-content are available for various school subjects in all
grades.

5. PRAGYATA guidelines on digital education was developed with a focus on online/blended/
digital education for students who are presently at home due to the closure of schools.
6. MANODARPAN: The ‘Manodarpan’ initiative for psychosocial support has been included in
the Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, as part of strengthening and empowering the human capital to
increase productivity and efficiency through reforms and initiatives in the education sector.

SKILL DEVELOPMENT

10.11 There is an improvement in the proportion of skilled people over the annual cycle of
Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) across rural, urban and gender classification (Table 6).