Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal

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Centre Introduces Over 100 NCERT-Based Comic Books For Grades 3-12

To usher socio-cultural awareness among students, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on March 24 launched over 100 curriculum-based comic books corresponding to NCERT syllabus. Available on the government's 'DIKSHA' website/app, the comics, spread across 16 subjects, caters to students from grades 3-12. The comics include application-based worksheets alongside brief chapters on contemporary themes like gender sensitivity,… read-more

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 - 08:33 PM / by Ashly Ann Varghese

Tags: Education Minister, Ramesh Pokhiriyal, NCERT, comic book, CBSE, DIKSHA

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More Than 50% Of NCERT Chapters Inaccessible On Diksha Platform

More than half of the NCERT chapters on the DIKSHA platform are inaccessible for visually impaired students. Published by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, the report claimed that around 54.5% of NCERT sample chapters were inaccessible while 36.4% were completely accessible. Besides, out of the total links available for teaching and learning materials (TLM), only 31% were independently navigable. Moreover, 52.6% of the learning activities were… read-more

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 - 07:47 PM / by Ronit John

Tags: Visually impaired, Blind, DIKSHA, India

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