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The pilot
project SAKSHAT: A One Stop Education Portal launched on
30.10.2006 by His Excellency, the then President of India
to facilitate life long learning for students, teachers
and those in employment or in pursuit of knowledge free of
cost to them. The content development task for ‘SAKSHAT’
was looked after by the Content Advisory Committee (CAC)
for the respective subject, which consisted of
representatives from educational institutions like IGNOU,
Delhi University, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangthan (KVS),
Navodyaya Vidyalaya Sangthan (NVS), National Institute of
Open Schooling (NIOS) and National Council for Educational
Research and Training (NCERT) and prominent academicians
in the field. In addition, some NGOs had also provided the
contents developed by them free of cost for this portal.
The vision
is to scale up this pilot project ‘SAKSHAT’ to cater to
the learning needs of more than 50 crore people through a
proposed scheme of ‘National Mission in Education through
Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The scheme
is to provide connectivity to all institutions of higher
learning to world of knowledge in the cyber space, to
leverage the potential of ICT, in providing high quality
knowledge modules with right e-contents, to address to the
personalized needs of learners, in order to take care of
their aspirations. These modules are to be delivered
through ‘SAKSHAT’. The scheme may also have a provision of
certification of competencies of the human resources
acquired through formal or non-formal means as also to
develop and maintain the database of profile of human
resources.
(sakshat.ac.in)
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