One-stop portal for school questions

Designed to provide advanced education tools to students and helping parents keep tabs on their children?s performance, the portal Sakshat may just be the one stop solution to nagging problems.

Published on: Oct 9, 2006, 11:58:00 IST

None | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Playing truant with your studies and hiding the facts from your parents may not be so easy anymore! Conversely, if your desire for learning and knowledge remains unsated in the classroom, the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s innovative new portal Sakshat may just be the thing for you.

Designed with the dual purpose of providing advanced education tools to students and helping parents keep tabs on their children’s performance, the soon-to-be-launched portal Sakshat may just be the one stop solution to nagging problems, the common one being the non-availability of textbooks for senior classes.

Smart box

Online education

NCERT textbooks of class XI and XII would be available on the portal

Students can e-mail queries to their teachers

Students can compare marks in various subjects with data stored online

While seeking a login, entire information about a student will be given

NCERT textbooks of class XI and XII would be available on the ‘one stop portal’ along with the tutorials, reference material, question and answers and lectures on different aspects of the course from top education institutions like MIT.

And if you are still confused, you have the option to seek clarification from a teacher online. “A student will email his or her query to a teacher posted in the call centre who will reply instantly and the answer will pop up on the screen,” an official said. And it doesn’t end here.

As the entire information about the student will have to be provided while seeking a login for the portal, prospective employers or higher education institutions too would be able to cross-check the academic record.

Powered by experts of CBSE, NCERT, IITs and IGNOU, the government wants to make Sakshat a portal for all education needs, be it an education loan or scholarships or admission in any institution anywhere.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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