About DIKSHA Platform:
- It is a national platform for school education, an initiative of the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT), Ministry of Education.
- It provides e-content for schools via an online portal and a mobile application.
- It was developed based on the core principles of open architecture, open access, open licensing, choice and autonomy.
- It is built on open-source technology that is made in India and for India, incorporating internet-scale technologies and allowing for a variety of use cases and solutions for teaching and learning.
- Features
- The core building blocks of DIKSHA comprise majority of National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR) building blocks, having enabled some successful use-cases of NDEAR such as energised textbooks, online courses, content authoring, content sourcing, interactive quizzes, question banks, chatbot, analytics and dashboard.
- To aid teaching and learning for Children With Special Needs (CWSN), a large number of audiobooks, ISL (Indian Sign Language) Videos, and a Dictionary have been made available on DIKSHA for CWSN.
Key facts about National e-Governance Division
- It was created by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology as an Independent Business Division under the Digital India Corporation.
- Since 2009, NeGD has been playing a pivotal role in supporting MeitY in Programme Management and implementation of the e-Governance Projects, providing technical and advisory support to Ministries/ Departments, both at Central and State levels, along with other Government organisations.
- It has developed and is managing several National Public Digital Platforms such as DigiLocker, UMANG, Rapid Assessment System, OpenForge, API Setu, Poshan Tracker, Academic Bank of Credits, etc.
