# Goa digitises Grade I-VIII textbooks for DIKSHA platform 2026-11-06T01:42:10+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Goa has begun digitising textbook lessons for students from Grade I to VIII, with teacher-led videos for all subjects to be uploaded on the national DIKSHA platform. The Goa State Council for Educational Research and Training (GSCERT) has added two studios and will use two more from the directorate of higher education, taking production facilities to four. Filming has already started, GSCERT director Meghana Shetgaonkar said. The videos will be supplementary classroom material and cover revised textbooks aligned with the National Education Policy, including new local topics. The initiative follows partial digital work during the pandemic for Goa Board schools, while CBSE and ICSE already have such resources online. Central government funds are available, Shetgaonkar said. GSCERT also held taluka-level interactions in September with school heads, teachers and parent-teacher associations to discuss NEP implementation, including changes to assessment patterns. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The Times of India reports the digitisation work factually, while Urban Acres adds a note of caution about ‘usefulness will depend on how easily students and teachers can find and use the material’. Both are otherwise uniform straight reporting: same quotes from director Shetgaonkar, same rollout of four studios, same September taluka-level meetings. The balanced reading is that the initiative is well-resourced and in motion, but its classroom impact will turn on access and ease of use, points the sources flag without resolving. No next decision is named beyond the stated plan to upload videos on DIKSHA. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Straight reporting with no slant - urbanacres.in (neutral report) Adds a caveat on usability of the material This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: DIKSHA, Meghana Shetgaonkar, National Education Policy Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/goa-digitises-grade-i-viii-textbooks-for-diksha-platform/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/goa-digitises-grade-i-viii-textbooks-for-diksha-platform/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/