DIKSHA Portal

DIKSHA – Digital Infrastructure for School Education is an initiative of the National Council of Educational Research and Training under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. DIKSHA portal was launched by Vice President of India on September 5, 2017. It is an open-source diverse platform made available for all the states and union territories across the country. It is a common digital platform at national level for teachers, students and parents. It enables teachers to have access to training content, in class resources, assessment aids, news and announcements, teacher community, etc. It is a core digital mechanism for teacher education and training. It also enables students to get access to study material by scanning the textbook QR codes. At the occasion of completion of one year to the New Education Policy (NEP), Prime Minister launched various reforms contributing to the transformation of education system. During the launch PM also stated that DIKSHA portal which is government’s e-learning portal get about 5 crore hits per day and has got about 23 crore hits in the last year.

Portal Overview:

Objectives and Benefits:

• The main objective of the portal is to provide a made in India platform of engaging digital learning material
• This portal provides as an open source of learning material prepared by teachers and experienced content creators and students
• The portal functions as a one stop window for teachers to get access to teaching material, assessment aids, courses for skill development, etc
• Students can scan their textbook QR codes for accessing lesson wise content revising it, etc
• Parents can keep a track of classroom activities and clear doubts outside school hours
• The portal aims to cover all the aspects to make it user friendly
• The portal is a user-friendly platform containing various video tutorials, quizzes, pdfs, etc
• It helps the students to understand the concepts through engaging learning material thereby helping them to learn outside the class

Key Points and Features:

• DIKSHA portal is a portal providing learning and teaching material of school education launched in the year 2017
• DIKSHA stands for Digital Infrastructure for School Education
• This initiative of National Council of Educational Research and Training under the Ministry of Education, Government of India.
• DIKSHA portal is a platform made available for teachers, students and parents
• It provides easily accessible and engaging learning and teaching content online
• It is a platform for teachers to access teaching material, enrolling for courses, accessing news and announcements, assessment aids, etc
• Teachers can also design the content and share best practices to help student understand the basics as well as difficult concepts to students
• Students can scan textbook QR codes to access lesson wise or topic wise
• Students can also access the content for revision and additional material for studying
• Students can also get the answers verified through the portal immediately
• Parents can also keep a check on the portal for classroom activities, doubts clearing, etc
• This a one stop digital learning and teaching platform for all the teachers and students
• The homepage URL for DIKSHA portal is https://diksha.gov.in

• This portal is for easy access to the teachers, students and parents across the country
• It has improved UI/UX design and is user friendly
• This portal is accessible in 12 different languages like english, Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Kannada, etc
• The portal has various video tutorials, quizzes, offline content, etc
• It is a storehouse of all the useful links of content by NCERT, CBSE, NIOS as well as content published state wise
• It brings transparency and helps in easy access to the digital content
• DIKSHA app is also available for download on Google play store