TAPAS Initiative
✅Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment has launched an online portal TAPAS (Training for Augmenting Productivity and Services).
✅It offers various courses in the field of social defence for the capacity building of stakeholders. It is an initiative of National Institute of Social Defense (NISD).
✅It is a standard MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform with course material such as filmed lectures and e-study material.
✅It also includes discussion forums to support and encourage interactions among students and course coordinators.
✅It will provide access to lectures by subject experts, study material and more, but in a manner that it supplements the physical classroom without compromising on the quality of teaching.
✅It can be taken up by anyone who wishes to enhance his or her knowledge on the topics and there is no fee for joining.
