E-Pathsala programme set to begin

The ambitious e-Pathshala programme of the government, seeking to create quality content across disciplines at the post-graduate level, is set to kick off with UGC asking universities throughout the country to contribute to the exercise.
The initiative, approved by the HRD Ministry in 2011, proposes to develop e-content in 77 subjects across disciplines and the material will be made available to both teachers and students in the form of open online courses.
The HRD Ministry, under its National Mission on Education through ICT, sanctioned grant-in-aid to UGC for production of the e-content in subjects at postgraduate level.
"It hardly needs to mention that such a gigantic task could be accomplished only through a participatory exercise," UGC chairman Ved Prakash said in his letter to the vice chancellors, seeking contribution from academic experts.

The subjects on which content is proposed to be developed range from adult education and women studies, architecture and bio-informatics to nano science and nano technology, geology and genetics.