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Context:
Delhi schools fare much better in digitalisation than national average, show Ministry of Education data. The data from UDISE+ show that Delhi schools have far more digital facilities than the national average.
- Digitalization in government schools refers to the use of digital technologies to improve the quality of education.
Government Schemes
- DIKSHA
- DIKSHA stands for Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing and provides a national platform for school education in India for teachers and their students with the digital tools and resources.
- Launch
- DIKSHA was launched in 2017 by NCERT.
- Ministry
- Ministry of Education (MoE)
- Samagra Shiksha
- This integrated scheme for school education covers pre-school to class XII. It is closely related to the National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020, which focuses on experiential learning, multidisciplinary approaches, and holistic development.
- Launch
- The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) launched the Samagra Shiksha scheme in 2018.
- ICT@ Schools
- This scheme was introduced in 2004 to promote the use of ICT in school education. It was a merger of the Educational Technology -1972 and Computer Literacy and Studies in Secondary Schools (CLASS)-1984 schemes.
- Launch
- December 2004
