PIB Delhi – NEP has Chapter 23 on TECHNOLOGY USE AND INTEGRATION and Chapter 24 on ONLINE AND DIGITAL EDUCATION, where details of all policy initiatives and action points are given. The blueprint for National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR) has been launched on 29th July, 2021 by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, with a vision to meet the challenges of the Indian education system, find evolvable solutions for these challenges and create an open, interoperable, evolvable, public digital infrastructure in the education sector that can be used by multiple platforms and point solutions.
It provides foradiverse education eco-system architecture for the development of digital infrastructure, a federated but inter operable system that ensures autonomy of all stakeholders, including learners, teachers, administrators including School Boards, Autonomous Organizations, specially States and UTs. An Integrated Teacher Training Programme called NISHTHA has been launched, it is a capacity building programme for “Improving Quality of School Education through Integrated Teacher Training“. NISHTHA can be accessed from the below link:https://itpd.ncert.gov.in// The information was given by the Minister of State for Education, Annpurna Devi in a written reply in the LokSabha today.