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Goa digitises Grade I-VIII textbooks for DIKSHA platform
The Story in Brief
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: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report), urbanacres.in (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
