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Hon’ble Ministers of State for Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJ&E), Km. Pratima Bhoumik; and Shri
A. Narayanswami. Other dignitaries present during the launch event are Smt. Anjali Bhawra, Secretary,
DEPwD-MSJ&E, Sh. Santosh Sarangi, Additional Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy,
Ministry of Education, Dr. Prabodh Seth, Joint Secretary, DEPwD-MSJ&E and Director ISLRTC and Sh. V.
Gopala Krishnan, General Secretary, All Indian Federation of Deaf. The launch video can be accessed
through: https://youtu.be/SOA-of8wkTA access diksha.gov.in.

DIKSHA- One Nation One Digital Platform has been running Capacity Building Programmes. 04 Online
Professional Development Programmes were offered by NCERT on DIKSHA during this quarter:
1. Environmental Hazards of Electronic Waste (E-Waste) in collaboration with MeitY 2. COVID-19 Responsive
Behaviors in collaboration with UNICEF (in English and Hindi) Batch-2 is running 3. Action Research Course
Batch-2 is running 4. Urdu Script Writing (Urdu version) Batch-2 is running.

Following are the brief of other activities undertaken in DIKSHA in the month of September 2021: i) DIKSHA
Steering committee has approved extension of current cloud hosting for another 12 months. ii) Request
has been sent to NIC for setting up a DIKSHA PMU for NCERT iii) Total 4,620 Energized Textbooks have been
developed by states/UTs and NCERT iv) About 2,12,468 pieces of e-content are live on DIKSHA. About 568
CBSE Shikshawani audios based on NCERT textbooks are available on DIKSHA and about 490 textbook
based ISL videos uploaded on DIKSHA.

Development and roll-out of courses for MOOCs on SWAYAM (School MOOCs for Classes 9th – 12th
and MOOCs for Teacher Education) started Cycle 7 for 30 school education courses and the registration
has been extended till 30 September, 2021 and around 86,731 learners have been enrolled across the
courses. Updation of MOOCs repository in CIET portal has been done. Customisation of course content for
sharing with States is in process. An online workshop was conducted 19-21 July, 2021 for the development
of assessment questions and around 3,000 questions have been developed. Another online workshop
was also conducted 26-27 July, 2021 for review of assessment questions and review is in process. 11 HD
videos of Chemistry and Economics have been finalized. Around 800 videos of MOOCs courses checked
and uploaded on DIKSHA portal.

Under DIKSHA/ICT Excellence Award for School Teachers, Teacher Educators and States/UTs the list of
49 awardees has been approved by the Ministry for the years 2018 (25) and 2019 (24). For distribution of
awards, process has been initiated to purchase 49 laptops, medals and preparation of testimonial booklet.

Organization of Festival, ICT Mela, contests of digital contents and coordination with States/ UTs is an
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event conducted annually. The Jury Meeting of the 25 All India Children’s Educational Audio Video Festival
was held from 9-18 July, 2021 in order to select the Best Program and Individual Excellence Awards for all
5 categories (Audio, Byte Size Video on LOs, Video, New Media & ICT and Digital Games) out of 462 entries
in various categories. After the decision of the jury, the list of final best program and individual excellence
winner was prepared and uploaded on the CIET website. The 25 AICEAVF was celebrated online on 30
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August, 2021 which was simulcast on NCERT Official YouTube channel. Shri Manoj Bajpayee, Actor, Hindi
Cinema industry was the chief guest and Prof. Ashok Ogra was the guest of honour for the event. Prof.
Sridhar Shrivastava, Director, NCERT; Major Harsh Kumar, Secretary, NCERT, Prof. Amarendra P. Behera, Joint
Director, CIET-NCERT, Prof. Shashi Prabha, Head, PRD, CIET-NCERT, Dr. G R Syed (Jury member), Dr. Ritu Rajput
(Jury member) and Dr. Sujith Parayil (Jury member) graced the occasion. Out of the total 462 entries, 79
programmes (audio-22, video-28, bite-sized video on Los-1, new media/ICT-20 and digital games-8) were
selected for awards. These 79 programmes had best programmes (44) and individual excellence and jury
appreciation programmes (35). Award money was transferred to the winners’ bank accounts. Certificates
and mementos have been sent to the winners, Jury members and Guest of Honor. Festival Directory has
been uploaded on CIET website. The online celebration can be seen through: https://www.facebook.com/
ncertofficial/videos/999691287482421.

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