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SWAYAM Prabha-Educational Contents through DTH
Government has approved a project to launch the ‘SWAYAM Prabha’-a project for operationalising 32 Direct to Home (DTH) Television Channels for providing high quality educational content to all teachers, students and citizens across the country interested in lifelong learning. There will be new content of four hours every day, which would be telecast six times a day allowing the student to choose the time of his/her convenience.
The main features of SWAYAM Prabha would be as under:-
(i) Curriculum based course contents covering diverse
disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences
and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture
etc.
(ii) Covers all level of education: School education, undergraduate,
postgraduate, engineering, out of school children, vocational courses and
teacher training. The 32 channels are proposed to be launched before
September 2016. Initially the programmes will be in English but with the passage
of time the programmes will be launched in regional languages also.