IIT lectures will be done on television sets so that students don't miss out on any lectures - Human Resource Ministry (HRD) has come up with a new project

Updated on: Monday, June 06, 2016

iit As India is moving towards digitisation, it's time for the education department to introduce new methods of teaching.

In a recent move, the Human Resource Ministry (HRD) has come up with a new project where live telecasting of IIT lectures will be done on television sets so that students don't miss out on any lectures.

Details of the project:

The live telecast will be applicable for students of six Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and some other top institutes of India
The HRD will be launching 32 Direct-to-Home (DTH) channels
Also, the department of space will be allotting two transponders on a GSAT series satellite
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) has been signed with many colleges/universities which will provide lessons and content for the channel
The channels on which lectures will be telecasted will be freely available on Doordarshan's FreeDish DTH platform
Students of over 12 other top institutes will receive lectures on the television sets but the ministry has not finalised the names of colleges till now
(Read: IIT Roorkee students create 'Ground Penetrating Radar' system to detect land mines)

When will the channels be operational?

After a high-level committee chaired by director, IIT Gandhinagar, conducted a meeting last month over finalizing the project, it was also announced that the channels will be made operational by August this year.

While speaking about launching this service, a senior official said, "The government is focusing on using space technology to expand the reach of high quality education. Through the 32 DTH channels the aim is to ensure that live classrooms can be transmitted from ten 'Teaching Ends' out of which six will be IITs located in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Kharagpur, Kanpur and Guwahati."

IIT lectures will be done on television sets so that students don't miss out on any lectures - Human Resource Ministry (HRD) has come up with a new project

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