Arunachal Pradesh Govt Inks MoUs for Implementation of PM-USHA, PM e-Vidya

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ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Pradesh government has inked two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the Union Ministry of Education for the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (PM-USHA) for higher education and Pradhan Mantri e-Vidya (PM e-Vidya) for school education in the state. The MoUs were signed on the occasion of the just concluded Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam 2023 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, an official communiqué informed here on Friday. The two-day event, which coincided with the third anniversary of the National Education Policy 2020, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

State Education Commissioner Amjad Tak signed the MoUs in the presence of union ministers of state for education, Subhas Sarkar, Annapurna Devi, and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, the communiqué said. The first MoU for the implementation of the newly launched programme PM-USHA was signed on behalf of the state Directorate of Higher and Technical Education, while the second one is for the launch of PM e-Vidya, signed on behalf of the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), the communiqué said.

PM-USHA will be implemented to address the key gaps in the higher education sector of the state to improve equity, access, and inclusion; provide a quality teaching-learning process; improve the accreditation of higher educational institutions; create an ICT-based digital infrastructure; and enhance employability through a multi-disciplinary approach. PM e-Vidya will be implemented across the state through DTH TV channels and shall be immensely beneficial to the school students for learning through e-Vidya. PM e-Vidya is a comprehensive initiative that unifies all efforts related to digital, online, and on-air education to enable multi-mode access to education. Both programmes will pave the way for more inclusive development and excellence in the field of education in the state, the communiqué added.

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