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Education Ministry Shares The Progress of Teacher-Training For Online Classes
Till now 200 courses have been uploaded and more than 12 lakh teachers have been trained.
DIKSHA has been leveraged to deliver online courses to teachers on multiple competencies. Till now, 6 states, NCERT and CBSE have already started their programs and have uploaded more than 200 courses and have collectively trained 12 lakh teachers. This has led to 8 crore learning sessions for these teachers.
CBSE has uploaded 20 courses on competencies like Experiential learning, pedagogical competencies, ICT, etc. and have trained more than 1 lakh teachers already. NCERT has also started leveraging DIKSHA and has uploaded 2 courses and NISHTHA training modules are being uploaded with the goal of training 40 Lakh teachers across the country.
States such as UP has launched 88 courses, Gujarat has launched 30 courses, Madhya Pradesh has uploaded 11 courses and both Haryana and Rajasthan have launched 5 courses which are relevant to the needs of their teachers leading to high enrolment and completion rate.
The courses are available on https://diksha.gov.in/explore-course
This information was given by the Union Education Minister, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank,’ in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on 22 Sep 2020.