data.gov.in - Open Government data platform of Government of India

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.The base Open Government Data Platform India is a joint initiative of Government of India and US Government. Open Government Data Platform India is also packaged as a product and made available in open source for implementation by countries globally. The entire product is available for download at the Open Source Code Sharing Platform "GitHub". Open Government Data Platform India has 4 (four) major modules, as detailed below, implemented on a single Drupal instance – An Open Source based Content Framework Solution.

• Data Management System (DMS) – Module for contributing data catalogs by various government agencies for making those available on the front end website after a due approval process through a defined workflow.
• Content Management System (CMS) – Module for managing and updating various functionalities and content types of the Open Government Data Platform India Platform.
• Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) – Module for collating and disseminating viewer feedback on various data catalogs.
• Communities – Module for community users to interact and share their zeal and views with others, who share common interests as that of theirs.

Visit website at https://data.gov.in/

ePG Pathshala : A portal for open educational resources for all post graduate courses

e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the University Grands Commission. It is a part of Digital India initiative. It disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals, and a variety of other print and non-print materials for students, teachers, parents, researchers and educators.The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other research & development institutes across the country. Every subject had a team of principal investigator, paper coordinators, content writers, content reviewers, Language editors and multimedia team.

You can access ePG Pathshala at https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in . The content of the portal has divided in to seven Categories;

▪ Arts & Humanities

▪ Languages

▪ Engineering and Technology

▪ Life Science

▪ Medical and Health Sciences

▪ Physical and Basic Sciences

▪ Social Sciences

Under each category individual subjects are given;

▪ Arts & Humanities : Architecture, Buddhist Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Study of Religions, Planning, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Visual Arts. 

▪ Languages: Chinese, English, Hindi, Japanese, Russian Studies, Sanskrit ( Acharya and Vyakarana ), Sanskrit (MA) , Spanish, Urdu.

▪ Engineering and Technology : Analytical Chemistry / Instrumentation, Computational Science, Computer Science, Electronic Sciences, Human Resource Management, Information Technology, Management, Material Science, Risk / Disaster Management .

▪ Life Science : Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Botany, Food and Nutrition, Food Technology.

▪ Medical and Health Sciences : Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Museology and Conservation, Pharmaceutical Science, Physical Education Sports and Health Education, Social Medicine and Community Health, Zoology

▪ Physical and Basic Sciences : Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Jyotish-ganit, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics

▪ Social Sciences : Adult Educated, Anthropology, Business Economics, Commerce, Criminology, Economics, Education, Forensic Science, Geography, Hotel and Tourism Management, Human Rights and Duties, Indian Culture, Law, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Media and Communication Studies, Political Science, Population Studies, Psychology, Public Administration, Social Work Education, Sociology, Women Studies / Gender Studies.

epg Pathshala can be access through mobile app. ePathshala mobile app is available through especially developed mobile app interface on Android, iOS and windows platforms for wider access and contains textbooks and other e-books as E-Pub 3.0 and Flipbooks in English, Hindi and Urdu.

To download, Android app, 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.epathshala

To download, Windows app,  

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/e-pathshala/9nblggh5x1xw

The National Academic Depository ( NAD ) for Digital Preservation of Academic Awards

The National Academic Depository ( NAD ) is a digital dtabase of academic awards provided by the Governement of India under Digital India initiative. It is an inter-operable system for strorage, retrieval, authentication and verification of academic awards. National Academic Depository (NAD) is a 24X7 online store house of all academic awards viz.certificates, diplomas, degrees, mark-sheets etc. duly digitised and lodged by academic institutions / boards / eligibility assessment bodies. NAD not only ensures easy access to and retrieval of an academic award but also validates and guarantees its authenticity and safe storage. National Academic Depository comprises of two interoperable digital depositories viz. CDSL Ventures Limited (CVL) and NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML). These digital depositories have ensured hardware, network facilities and software of prescribed quality for smooth and secured operationalisation of NAD.

Features of NAD

• It operates in fully online mode.
  
  
• Allow lodging of Academic awards in a digital format, maintaining the integrity of access to the database and of the awards lodged in the database.
  
  
• Allow students to retrieve their lodged academic awards at any time.
  
  
• Allow employers and other person with prior approval of the concerned student to verify the authenticity of any academic award.
  
  
• Maintain the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the database.

Stakeholders of NAD

• Students/other award holders.
  
  
• Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility assessment bodies.
  
  
• Verifying entities i.e. banks, employer companies (domestic and overseas), Government entities, academic institutions/universities/boards/eligibility assessment bodies (domestic and overseas) etc.
  
  
• Ministry of Human Resource Development/ University Grants Commission.
  
  
• Depositories.

Academic Institutions under NAD

• Central Universities.
  
  
• Central Higher Educational Institutions and institutions empowered by an Act of Parliament or State Legislature to grant degrees.
  
  
• Central Higher Educational Institutions awarding diplomas.
  
  
• State Universities and Deemed to be Universities approved for participating in NAD by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
  
  
• Private Universities approved by University Grants Commission.
  
  
• Institutions approved by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for participating in NAD.
  
  
• Central Board of Secondary Education, State Education Boards and other school boards.
  
  
• Eligibility test conducting bodies such as bodies listed by name by UGC and shall include University Grants Commission (UGC) for National Eligibility Test (NET) and CBSE for Teacher Eligibility Test (TET).

Academic awards to be covered under NAD

• Any certificate or degree or diploma including related mark sheets, transcript or evaluation reports or provisional certificates, as the case may be, granted by an Academic Institution.
  
  
• Certificate, degree, diploma for skill development issued by approved institutions.
  
  
• ll certifications by National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) aligned bodies which shall include all training courses/short term and long term certificate courses/any other courses as offered by institutions and as approved by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for participating in NAD.
  
  
• Mark sheets, certificates issued by the school boards.
  
  
• Certificates issued by eligibility test conducting bodies.

Services by NAD

• Register Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility Assessment bodies.
  
  
• Register students based on Aadhaar / Unique NAD ID.
  
  
• Register verification users.
  
  
• Allow Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility Assessment bodies to upload the academic awards issued by them.
  

• Allow Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility Assessment bodies to map/link the academic award to the NAD Accounts of Students concerned.

• Allow students to view the academic awards linked to their respective account.

• Allow students to download/print an authenticated copy of the academic award.

• Allow verifying entities to verify the authenticity of the academic award (subject to prior student consent)
  
  For more information visit official website of National Academic Depository at https://nad.gov.in
  

SWAYAM PRABHA: Free DTH channel for education

The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite. This project ia part of the Digital India initiative.  Every day, there will be new content for at least four hours which would be repeated five more times in a day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience. The contents are provided by National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning ( NPTEL ), all Indian Institute of Technology , University Grands Commission, Consortium for Educational Communication ( CEC ), Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU ), National Council for Educational Research and Training ( NCERT ) and National Institute of Open Schooling ( NIOS ). The INFLIBNET Center maintains the web portal of SWAYAM PRABHA.

SWAYAM PRABHA provide learning resources to support school, college, university education and life long learning. For school education from ninth level to twelveth level resources are telecasting. Modules are for teacher's training as well as teaching and learning aids for students to help them understand the subjects better. It also help students in preparing for competitive examinations for admissions to professional degree programmes. In the higher education level curriculum-based course contents at post-graduate and under-graduate level covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture, etc. are provided. These courses can meet the needs of life-long learners of Indian citizens in India and abroad.

Official Website of SWAYAM PRABHA: https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/

SWAYAM: MOOCs initiative of Digital India

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has initiated SWAYAM ( Study Webs of Active Learning for Aspiring Minds ) under Digital India initiative to facilitate MOOCS ( Massive Online Open Cources. The SWAYAM portal provides online learning resources and tries to reduce digital divide in the information age. The portal hosting all the courses from ninth standard to postgraduate level by eminent faculties of national institutes like IITs, IIMs, central universities, etc. SWAYAM is an opportunity for all citizen of India to do life long learning. The students of school or college or university can attend the classes of SWAYAM 24X7 and can expand the horizon of knowledge. All courses would be offered free of cost under this programme however fees would be levied in case learner requires certificate. 

SWAYAM website : https://swayam.gov.in/
SWAYAM mobile app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.swayam.app