UGC Collaborates With Ministry Of Electronics And lT To Launch E-resources Portal For Rural Students

The portal will have courses in eight Indian Languages- Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bangla, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil.

The University Grant Commission (UGC) has recently joined hands with the Ministry Of Electronics And lnformation Technology (MeitY) to launch an e-resources portal. The portal will provide digital courses to millions of students in rural areas.

In a recent notification, the UGC stated, “to mark 2 years of NEP-2020 and to facilitate last mile accessibility (ensuring that no learner is left behind), UGC has integrated its "UGC e-resources Portal (httptlugcereso urces.in/)" with Common Service Centres (CSCs)/Special Purpose Vehicle (SpVl of Ministry of Electronics and lnformation Technology (MeitY) in rural India”.

The portal will have 25 SWAYAM postgraduate non-engineering MOOCs courses. These courses will be in eight Indian Languages- Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bangla, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil. The portal will also have e-PG Pathshala e-content developed in 67 postgraduate subiects and 35 postgraduate and 243 postgraduate SWAYAM MOOCs courses in emerging areas.

The translated courses will remove language barriers and promote Indian Ianguages while also allowing students to learn in their native tongue. Anyone interested in learning can utilize and gain from these Open Educational Resources (OER). Furthermore, universities may use these OER for flipped classroom learning and blended learning.