There are several ICT (Information and Communication Technology) initiatives of the MHRD, UGC and its Inter University Centres (IUCs) – Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), in the form of digital platforms which can be accessed by the teachers, students and researchers in Universities and Colleges for broadening their horizon of learning.

Following is the list of some of the ICT initiatives along with their access links :

  1. SWAYAM Online Courses provides access to best teaching learning resources which were earlier delivered on the SWAYAM Platform may be now viewed by any learner free of cost without any registration. Students/learners who registered on SWAYAM (swayam.gov.in) in the January 2020 semester can continue their learning as usual.
  2. UG / PG MOOCs hosts learning material of the SWAYAM UG and PG (Non-Technology) archived courses.
  3. e-PG Pathshala hosts high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content containing 23,000 modules (e-text and video) in 70 Post Graduate disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural and mathematical sciences.
  4. e-Content courseware in UG subjects : e-content in 87 Undergraduate Courses with about 24,110 e-content modules is available on the CEC Website.
  5. SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 32 DTH channels providing high quality educational curriculum based course content covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture, etc., to teachers, students and citizens across the country interested in lifelong learning. These channels are free to air and can also be accessed through your cable operator. The telecasted videos/lectures are also as archived videos on the Swayam prabha portal.
  6. CEC-UGC YouTube channel provides access to unlimited educational curriculum based lectures absolutely free.
  7. National Digital Library is a digital repository of a vast amount of academic content in different formats and provides interface support for leading Indian languages for all academic level including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners.
  8. Shodhganga is a digital repository platform of 2,60,000 Indian Electronic Thesis and Dissertations for research students to deposit their PhD thesis and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.
  9. e-Shodh Sindhu provides current as well as archival access to more than 15,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities, and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.
  10. Vidwan is a database of experts which provides information about experts to peers, prospective collaborators, funding agencies policy makers and research scholars in the country. Faculty members are requested to register on the Vidwan portal to help expand the database of experts.

Also, the list of ICT initiatives is available on MHRD website : https://mhrd.gov.in/ict-initiatives