DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge sharing)
DIKSHA a national IT Platform to teachers, is being developed by the Department of School Education and Literacy, MHRD, GOI and NCTE as a comprehensive repository for all aspects related to the data, capacity and professional development of school teachers, teachers educators and teacher pupil in the country/state of UT Chandigarh. The state has taken up an initiative in collaboration with DIKSHA team also known as “Chandigarh DIKSHA” to provide digital platform of good quality study material and variety or resources that can be used by teachers in the teaching learning process. Chandigarh DIKSHA is a repository of curriculum linked with relevant resources for school teachers and students in an interactive format.
Programmers / Activities, 2023
| Sr. No. | Programme | Date | Participants | Remarks |
| 1. | A capacity building programme for teachers teaching classes 1 and 2 for use of DIKSHA and ICT for creating e-content | 19.09.2023 to 29.09.2023 | 65 | Expenditure was incurred by Teacher Education |
| 2. | A 10 days’ workshop was conducted to create Digital Content for Class 1 and 2 (English and Hindi Medium) under Chandigarh Projects for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FL&N) for class I and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FL&N) for class II | 05.10.2023 to 19.10.2023 | 43 | Expenditure was incurred by Teacher Education |
| 3. | A capacity building programme for teachers teaching English, Hindi, Science, Mathematics and Social Studies to class VII for use of DIKSHA and ICT for creating e-content | 26.09.2022 to 30.09.2022
& 03.10.2022 to 06.10.2022 |
50 | Expenditure was incurred by Teacher Education |
| 4. | A 10 days’ workshop was conducted to create Digital Content for Class VII (Hindi Medium) in the subjects of English, Hindi, Science, Mathematics and Social Studies | 24.11.2022 to 04.12.2022 | 50 | Expenditure was incurred by Teacher Education |