Swayam Prabha: Having the highest number of young population in the world, India has a tremendous opportunity to transform its economy if these youth are properly educated and equipped with skills necessary to let them enter the job market.
As we are moving from agrarian society to Industrial economy, the utilization of the largely available human resources is one of the biggest challenges the government encounters. Majority of the youth has no access to quality education which could be due to various reasons being lack of financial resources one of them. Considering the challenges in the form of geographical expansion of the premier institutions, it would be not possible to serve the needs of the youth unless we use the technology effectively. So, with a view to provide access to quality educational content, government of India’s ministry of HRD has come up with a project called “Swayam prabha”. The project was launched on 9th July 2017 by the then president Shri Pranab Mukharjee.
What is Swayam Prabha?
Swayam Prabha is an initiative by the Ministry of Human Resource Development under which 32 DTH channels are made available to telecast the live lectures on various subjects. Direct to home Television (DTHTV) is a method of streaming television by means of signals transmitted from direct broadcast satellites. Signals are transmitted using Ku band and are completely digital with high picture and stereo sound quality. These are available across the country at no cost to the end users.
Under this project high quality educational content produced at various intuitions arranging from IITs to open universities.
Every day, there will be new content of at least 4 hours which would be repeated 6 times a day, allowingthe student to choose the time of his convenience.
Content Coverage under Swayam Prabha:
1. School education ( Class 9 to 12 ) modules:
The content of this category is produced to facilitate teacher training and teaching and learning aids to children to make them understand the subjects better and also help them in better preparedness for competitive examinations for admissions to professional degree programmes.
2. Curriculum based content:
The content under this category would cater the needs of various disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture etc in higher education domain.
3. For life long learners:
Curriculum and content that meet the needs of lifelong learners
Channel details:
| No | Channel Tittle | Channel co-ordinator | Web link |
| 1 | Channel 01:
CEC/UGC: Humanities- 1, Language and Literature | EMRC, EFLU, Hyderabad (The English and Foreign Languages University) | Click to view |
| 2 | Channel 02:
CEC/UGC: Humanities- 2, Arts, History,Philosophy and related Subjects | CEC, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 3 | Channel 03:
CEC/UGC: Social Science -1, Sociology, Political Science and related subjects | CEC, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 4 | Channel 04:
CEC/UGC: Social Science – 2, Education, Psychology, Home Science and related subjects | CEC, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 5 | Channel 05:
CEC/UGC: Social Science – 3, Management, Library Science, Information Science and related subjects | EMRC / MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 6 | Channel 06:
CEC/UGC: Social Science – 4, Law, Legal Studies, Human Rights and related subjects | EMRC, Punjabi University Patiala | Click to view |
| 7 | Channel 07:
CEC/UGC: Economics, Commerce and Finance | EMRC, Gujarat University,Ahmedabad | Click to view |
| 8 | Channel 08:
CEC/UGC: Physical sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and related Subjects | EMRC ,University of Calicut | Click to view |
| 9 | Channel 09:
CEC/UGC: Life Sciences, Botany, Zoology, Bio-Science and related subjects | EMRC, Kashmir University, Srinagar | Click to view |
| 10 | Channel 10:
CEC/UGC: Applied Sciences, Allied Physical and Chemical sciences and related subjects | EMRC, Anna University Chennai | Click to view |
| 11 | Channel 11:
NPTEL: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and related Subjects | IIT Kharagpur | Click to view |
| 12 | Channel 12:
NPTEL: Civil Engineering and related subjects | IIT Delhi | Click to view |
| 13 | Channel 13:
NPTEL: Computer Science and Engineering | IIT Kharagpur | Click to view |
| 14 | Channel 14:
NPTEL: Electrical engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and related subjects | IIT Delhi | Click to view |
| 15 | Channel 15:
NPTEL: Engineering Sciences and general subjects for engineering | IIT Madras | Click to view |
| 16 | Channel 16:
NPTEL: Humanities, Social Sciences and Management | IIT Kanpur | Click to view |
| 17 | Channel 17:
NPTEL: Mechanical Engineering and related subjects | IIT Kanpur | Click to view |
| 18 | Channel 18:
NPTEL: Mathematics, Physics, Metallurgy and related subjects | IIT Tirupati / IIT Madras | Click to view |
| 19 | Channel 19: IIT PAL: Biology | IIT PAL 1 IIT Delhi | Click to view |
| 20 | Channel 20: IIT PAL: Chemistry | IIT PAL 2, IIT Delhi | Click to view |
| 21 | Channel 21: IIT PAL: Mathematics | IIT PAL 3. IIT Delhi | Click to view |
| 22 | Channel 22: IIT PAL: Physics | IIT PAL 4, IIT Delhi | Click to view |
| 23 | Channel 23: IGNOU: Liberal Arts and Humanities | IGNOU, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 24 | Channel 24: IGNOU: Agriculture, Vocational and Allied Sciences | IGNOU, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 25 | Channel 25: IGNOU: Culture | IGNOU, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 26 | Channel 26: IGNOU: State Open Universities’ programs | IGNOU, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 27 | Channel 27: NIOS: Secondary School Education | NIOS, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 28 | Channel 28: NIOS: Higher Secondary School Education | NIOS, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 29 | Channel 29: QEEE: QEEE 1 (Live classes in Engineering and Technology) | IIT Madras | Click to view |
| 30 | Channel 30: NPTEL: Mathematics | IIT Madras | Click to view |
| 31 | Channel 31: NCERT: School and Teacher Education | NCERT, New Delhi | Click to view |
| 32 | Channel 32: IGNOU and NIOS: Teacher Education | IGNOU and NIOS New Delhi | Click to view |
One can see the list of courses via https://swayam.gov.in/publiccourse
And the list of faculty here https://swayam.gov.in/Faculty
For more details, visit https://swayam.gov.in
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