Gujarat stands first in direct play on Centre's DIKSHA online learning portal

Gujarat ranks first in all the states in terms of the number of times learning activities undertaken using DIKSHA infrastructure. 

Gujarat has stood first amongst all the states in the country in terms of the number of times online learning initiatives by the state government were accessed on DIKSHA, the central government’s online learning portal. The ranking is as per the state-wise analysis of data collected from DIKSHA portal — the Digital Infrastructure for School Education — an initiative of the Ministry of Education, since April 1 till October 21. The data revealed that Gujarat is at the top among other states in the “direct plays” category.

The “direct plays” reflects the number of times all initiatives of the state government covering live as well as online learning sessions was accessed. Gujarat has over 1.75 crore ‘direct plays”. While, in other categories, like ETB-Energised Textbooks that have QR code, which is aimed at providing access to digital content for various topics in physical textbooks,and “course plays”, it has been ranked at fifth and fourth position, respectively.

"Course plays" is the count of online course content accessed by students. The state records over 6.76 crore course play while Madhya Pradesh with over 10.28 crore is at the top. Thus, in the total plays or clicks or number of times, all these digital content is accessed by the students, after Madhya Pradesh Gujarat is ranked at the second position.

“In addition to these rankings reflected in the Diksha portal’s dashboard, in Gujarat, the number of times learning activities undertaken using Dikhsha infrastructure by students is over 5.41 crore. This has been on an increase which peaked in the first week of this month,” said State Project Director of Samagra Shiksha P Bharathi.

She further said that the state rankings also reflect that the government’s initiative of “home learning online course” for over 2 lakh government school teachers has paid off as barring a few districts of Dang, Kutch and Dahod, teachers have achieved an overall enrollment rate of 93 per cent district-wise.

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