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Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Education: A

Government of India (GoI) Initiative
Geeta Hota
M. Phil. Student, C. V. Raman University, Bilaspur (C.G.),India, Bilaspur University, Bilaspur
Email: profgeeta@gmail.com

Abstract: Information communication technology (ICT) is This paper try to investigate the major initiative taken by
a new weapon of Teaching-Learning. ICT provides the government of India (GoI) in this direction as well as
effective Teaching-Learning means and provides huge current status of ICT infrastructure to access the
amount of contents available in the world wide web resources available for teaching and learning.
(WWW). The world is moving around utilization of ICT in
every sphere of life and our education system is untouched Table 1: Detail of related research work already done.
with this. Modern ICT is a combination of computer and
Internet to exchange the information from one place to Author and Year Contribution and Findings
another place in a rapid way. This paper describes about Bidarian,S. Presented a model for
initiative taken by the government of India (GoI) to andDavoudi, A.M. application of ICT in
promote and encourage ICT in Teaching-Learning process [1] Teaching-Learning process
with limited ICT infrastructure as compare to developed Kiasari, S. M. [2] Finds barrier on utilization
country like USA.
of ICT in Teaching-Learning
Keywords: Information communication technology (ICT), process, study is done for
Teaching-learning, ICT infrastructure. payamnoor university of
mazandaran.
I. INTRODUCTION Aduwa-Ogiegbaen, Reported about hurdles on
Modern ICT is basically use of computers and computer S. E. and utilization of ICT in
related devices and equipment to present and IyamuE.O.S.[5] Nigerian secondary schools
communicate information. The term, Information and and found that Nigerian
Communication Technology (ICT), refers to forms of schools are facing problems
technology that are used to transmit, store, create, share due to lack of trained human
or exchange information. ICT is interchangeably used resources, lack of ICT based
with Information Technology (IT) and may combine infrastructure and funding
other communication equipments like from government.
telecommunication, Internet and others. It helps peoples Elena C. Studied about use of ICT in
to access educational classes regardless of geographical papanastasiou and Teaching-Learning process.
distance or obstacles [1]. In education especially in Angeli, C.[6]
higher education ICT may play crucial role as online Sari, A. and Studied about impact of ICT
education, distance education as well as to the students Mahmutoglu, H. application in learning
and teachers involved in class room teaching by [3] process in higher education.
providing them teaching and learning related resources. The study is carried for one
Many studies reflect that this type of information in of the American university.
context of a country is necessary for making policy. Tas E.M.[7] Study is done in next of
Turkey, Concluded that ICT
Table 1 shows the work done in the field of utilization of
education is must forever
ICT in education. Authors [1] proposed a model for
growing and ever changing
application of ICT in Teaching-Learning. Other authors
economy.
[2, 5] investigated about barrier on utilization of ICT.
Author [7] found that ICT is necessary for economical II. OVERVIEW OF ICT BACKBONE IN
growth of a country. Utilization of ICT in education is
INDIA
growing very fast rate in developed countries due to
strong ICT related backbone. Developing countries and In order to utilize ICT, infrastructure and computing
undeveloped countries are racing behind them and devices must be available to the citizen of the country.
facing many problems due to economical crises, lack of We can analyze the situation of ICT infrastructure and
knowledge, lack of ICT infrastructure etc. related parameters through the data available. As shown

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in the Figures 1 to 4, India is lacking of ICT related
infrastructure, if we see Figure 1, Asia is far behind
other region of the world. Telecommunication play
important role in ICT to provide services which includes
fixed telephone subscription, internet users as well as
mobile subscription. If we compare data related to all
above, with that of USA we are far behind. Although
Internet users are increasing year by year (See Figure 4)
but a lot is to be done in this direction. On the other
hand Government of India (GoI) under the department
of Electronics and Telecommunication, Ministry of
communication and Information Technology is looking
forward towards this and launched many programs like
:National Knowledge Network (NKN) an initiative of
MHRD, State Wide Area Network (SWAN), National
Informatics Centre Network (NICNET) and National
Fiber Optical Network (NFON) to provide high
bandwidth internet connection to all the parts of the
country.

Americas
17%
Europe
20%
Arab states
11% Devloped
20%

Devloping Africa
World 8% Asia Pacific5%
11% 8%

Figure 1: Percentage of internet users in various parts of the world by region (2014), Source ITU (International
Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ ICT indicator database

200,000,000
180,000,000
160,000,000
140,000,000
120,000,000
100,000,000 India
80,000,000
60,000,000 USA
40,000,000
20,000,000
0

Figure 2: Fixed telephone subscription India Vs USA (Source ITU world telecommunication /ICT indicator database).

90.00
80.00
70.00
60.00
50.00
40.00 India
30.00
20.00 USA
10.00
0.00

Figure 3: Mobile cellular Telephone subscriptions India Vs USA (Source ITU world telecommunication /ICT indicator
database)

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18.00
16.00
14.00
12.00
10.00
8.00
6.00
4.00
2.00
0.00

Figure 4: Percentage of individual using the Internet in India (Source ITU world telecommunication /ICT indicator
database)
III. GoI INITIATIVE IN EDUCATION on model curriculum prescribed by AICTE for the
THROUGH ICT engineering graduates. Corse materials both web and
video are freely accessible to all.
Education should be highest priority for the
development of any country. Government of India (GoI) (b) Virtual Labs: Objectives of the Virtual Labs
has taken many imitative towards better utilization of [10] to provide remote-access to labs in various
ICT in education both in schools as well as in higher disciplines of science and engineering. These Virtual
education institutions. Following are the major program Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level,
of ICT in Teaching-Learning. post graduate level as well as to research scholars [10].

A. National Mission on Education through (c) A-VIEW:A-VIEW is an award winning

Information communication Technology (NMEICT):
NMEICT has been envisaged as a centrally sponsored
scheme to leverage the potential of ICT, in teaching and
learning process for the benefit of all the learners in
higher education institutions in any time any where
mode. This was expected to be a major intervention in
enhancing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in Higher
Education by 5 percentage points during the XI Five
Year Plan period [15].
The mission has two major components:
i. Providing connectivity along with provision for
access device and
ii. Content generation.
It also seeks to bridge the digital gap in the skill to use
computing devices for the purpose of teaching and
learning in higher education.
Following are the programs under NMEICT
(a) NPTEL: NPTEL[9] is acronym of National
Program on Technology Enhanced Learning is an
initiative of IITs and IISc Bangalore through MHRD
[15] to provides E-learning through online web and
video courses in engineering, science and humanities
streams. The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the
quality of engineering education in the country by
providing free online courseware. The courses are based
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indigenously built multi-modal, multimedia e-learning
platform that provides an immersive e-learning
experience that is almost as good as a real classroom
experience developed by Amrita e-Learning research lab
[11].
(d) Spoken Tutorial: This project is the initiative
of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity of the National
Mission on Education through Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), launched by the
Ministry of Human Resources and Development,
Government of India. Objective is to train students and
others online and provides certificate [12].
B. Digital Library INFLIBNET: The UGC-
INFONET Digital Library Consortium was formally
launched in December, 2003 by Honorable Dr. A P J
Abdul Kalam, the President of India soon after
providing the Internet connectivity to the universities in
the year 2003 under the UGC-INFONET program.
Provides online books and journals to the college and
universities at very low cast [13].
Other than these many other programs like Quantom
Nano centre, OSCARR++, E-Kalpa, SOS tool etc. are
the program of MHRD for improving skill for the
teachers as well as for the students.
C. Digital India: Digital India campaign launched
by prime minister of India with objective to transform
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India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge [3]
economy, may increase the telecommunication
infrastructure in the country and hence Internet users
will increase and we will be bridge digital gap in
between rural area and urban area. It is an umbrella
[4]
program covering many departments, the program pulls
many existing schemes. Vision on digital India centered
on three key areas: Digital Infrastructure to every citizen
of India, Governance and services on Demand, Digital
Empowerment of citizens [14]. [5]
IV. CONCLUSION
ICT can play crucial role in almost all the parts of life
including education system. ICT provides platform for
distance learning, online learning and certification as [6]
well as to enhance knowledge and accessing Teaching-
Learning contents available online. This paper provides
an informative knowledge about the infrastructure
required to utilize ICT in education as well as various
initiative taken by GoI in this directions. It has been
observed that we are poor by infrastructure as compare
to other developed as well as developing countries, [7]
which need to be improved for better and effective
utilization of ICT in higher education.
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