GOI's E-Pathsala programme soon

The ambitious e-Pathshala programme of the government, seeking to create quality content across disciplines at the post-graduate level, is set to kick off with UGC asking universities throughout the country to contribute to the exercise. The initiative was approved by the HRD Ministry in 2011, under its National Mission on Education through ICT, proposes to develop e-content in 77 subjects across disciplines and the material will be made available to both teachers and students in the form of open online courses.

The HRD Ministry has also sanctioned grant-in-aid to UGC for production of the e-content in subjects at postgraduate level.

The content will be developed in subjects’ ranges from adult education and women studies, architecture and bio-informatics to nano science and nano technology, geology and genetics. Materials would also be developed on defence and strategic studies as also on music, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Urdu languages under the initiative.

UGC has constituted a Standing Committee - e-PG Pathshala on e-content creation to monitor and coordinate the activity of content creation in a most effective and efficient manner.  The Academic Content Advisory Committee constituted by UGC comprises a panel of subject experts, technical experts and media professionals which will monitor and review the progress of implementation of the e-content scheme assigned to the institute and agency