Pallam Raju asks state boards to improve quality of educations

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister M M Pallam Raju on Wednesday called upon the State Education Boards to assume responsibility for improving the quality of education and infrastructure in their areas.

Launching e-content courseware on seven undergraduate subjects at Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) premises here, Raju stressed that there is urgent need for improving quality and for upgradation of infrastructure for enhancement of educational system in India.

CEC, an Inter-University Centre of University Grants Commission (UGC) on electronic media launched e-content courseware on seven subjects viz. Anthropology, English, Hindi, Mathematics, Photography, Environmental Studies and History. E-content on Botany had been launched earlier.

CEC had initiated the production of e-content under the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), a plan project of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). It develops e-content courseware in various subjects as per the UGC model curricula for undergraduate students in collaboration with its 22 media centres.

The digital content can be transmitted over the computer network world wide and could be accessed over internet anywhere, anytime. Presently, CEC is engaged in developing e content on nearly 90 UG subjects.

The new CEC brochure was also launched at the event, which also saw the subjects' flyers being unveiled. Raju also had a web conferencing session with the Directors of the media centres.

Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) is an Inter-University Centre, established by University Grants Commission (UGC), on 26th May 1993, under section 12(ccc) of its act of 1956. CEC as an autonomous centre enjoys Central University status and is a nodal agency at national level, to address the higher education needs of the country through production and dissemination of educational programmes.