14.1Quick Table: Who Runs What#
In brief
This is the highest-yield area for UGC NET .
- highest-yield area for UGC NET
- SWAYAM
- 2017
- class 9 to postgraduate
- Four quadrants
- NPTEL
- UGC
- CEC
This is the highest-yield area for UGC NET. Memorise who runs it, what it does, and its unique keyword.
| Initiative | Key facts (keyword) |
|---|---|
| SWAYAM | Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds. National MOOC platform, launched 2017, courses from class 9 to postgraduate, free to learn and paid proctored certificate. Four quadrants: video lecture, reading material, self-assessment and discussion forum. National Coordinators: NPTEL (engineering), UGC (non-technical postgraduate), CEC (non-technical undergraduate), NCERT and NIOS (school), AICTE (self-paced and international), IGNOU (out-of-school), IIMB (management) and NITTTR (teacher training). UGC allows up to 40% of a programme's credits to be earned through SWAYAM courses (raised from 20%) |
| SWAYAM Prabha | Group of DTH educational TV channels (34 initially, now more), 24x7, broadcast through GSAT-15 satellite. INFLIBNET is the coordinating and technical partner. Content from IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT, NIOS and others |
| NPTEL | National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, 2003, by IITs and IISc. Web and video courses in engineering, science and now humanities and management |
| e-PG Pathshala | Postgraduate e-content in about 70 subjects, by UGC and INFLIBNET. Four-quadrant model: e-Tutorial, e-Text, Web Resources and Self-Assessment |
| e-Pathshala | Web portal and app of NCERT with e-books and resources for school students and teachers |
| NDLI | National Digital Library of India, single-window search for educational resources, developed at IIT Kharagpur under NMEICT, launched 2016 |
| Shodhganga | Repository of Indian electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), by INFLIBNET, 2010. UGC regulations require submission of PhD theses |
| Shodhgangotri | Repository of research synopses of PhD scholars |
| Shodhshuddhi | Plagiarism detection facility provided by INFLIBNET to academic institutions |
| INFLIBNET | Information and Library Network Centre, an inter-university centre of UGC at Gandhinagar (Gujarat) |
| e-ShodhSindhu | Consortium giving access to e-journals and e-books, formed by merging UGC-INFONET, N-LIST and INDEST-AICTE |
| Vidwan | National database of experts and researchers (profiles) |
| ONOS | One Nation One Subscription, nationwide access to international research journals for government higher education institutions, run through INFLIBNET, launched in January 2025 |
| NAD | National Academic Depository, digital storage of academic awards (degrees and certificates), run by NSDL and CDSL, linked to DigiLocker, 2017 |
| DigiLocker | Cloud-based digital document wallet (2015), documents are legally valid (IT Act rules) |
| ABC | Academic Bank of Credits, launched July 2021, stores credits earned from multiple institutions, enabling credit transfer, multiple entry and exit (NEP 2020). Students register through DigiLocker |
| APAAR | Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry, One Nation One Student ID, a 12-digit lifelong ID linked to ABC, as per NEP 2020 |
| NMEICT | National Mission on Education through ICT, launched 2009 by the Ministry of Education (then MHRD), for content generation and connectivity |
| Virtual Labs | Remote access to simulated experiments, IIT-led project under NMEICT |
| e-Yantra | IIT Bombay, robotics education initiative |
| Spoken Tutorial | IIT Bombay, short audio-video tutorials on open-source software, in many Indian languages |
| PM e-Vidya | Programme (May 2020) combining digital, online and on-air education: DIKSHA, TV channels (One Class One Channel), radio, podcasts |
| DIKSHA | Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing, school-level platform for teachers and learners, with QR-coded textbooks, based on open-source Sunbird |
| AISHE | All India Survey on Higher Education, annual survey by the Ministry of Education, gives GER, enrolment and institution counts |
| NIRF | National Institutional Ranking Framework, launched 2015, first rankings in 2016. Parameters: Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR); Research and Professional Practice (RPP); Graduation Outcomes (GO); Outreach and Inclusivity (OI); Perception (PR) |
| SAMARTH | e-governance ERP platform for higher education institutions (admissions, fees, exams, HR) |
| UDISE+ | Unified District Information System for Education, school data |