Ramesh Pokhriyal chaired the review meeting on SWAYAM and SWAYAM Prabha in New Delhi

Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ held a detailed review of the National online education platform SWAYAM and the 32 DTH Television Education Channels SWAYAM PRABHA in New Delhi.

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SWAYAM was launched in 2017 by MHRD, GoI. Currently, there are 1902 courses available in SWAYAM. It has been offered to 1.56 crore students. Over 26 lakh students are taking 574 courses on offer.

SWAYAM 2.0 also supports the launch of Online degree programs. Mapping of SWAYAM courses to the AICTE model curriculum has been done, gaps identified. A similar exercise for non-technical courses is underway by a committee of UGC.

It was decided that all the 1900 SWAYAM Courses and 60000 SWAYAM PRABHA videos would be translated into ten regional languages and made available to the students so that more benefits can be derived from the same. The whole project has been scheduled to be completed in a time-bound manner.

MHRD has announced to provide more courses under SWAYAM, appropriate incentives for their career will be provided. Also, UGC was asked to prepare guidelines regarding online and Distance learning guidelines to increase Gross Enrolment Ratio.