MUMBAI: The All India Council for Technical Education has launched GD-3 an education channel, exclusively for technical education.
 

The AICTE, has in a notice in a daily today, said that the ministry of human resource development has launched GD3 on 26 January 2003. The target group of the educational channel, a subsidiary of DD's own education channel Gyan Darshan, is essentially students of engineering colleges. Information provided will be useful for the general public as well, the notice says. 

Coordinated by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, the venture has all the IITs participating. The channel is uplinked through the infrastructure at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

GD3 will telecast 16 hours of curriculum-based programmes every day for undergraduate studies in engineering and technology. According to the notice, it is estimated that the channel will be watched by nearly 1.5 million students studying at 1200 engineering and technology colleges across the country. Programme schedules of GD3 are available at www.gyandarshan.ernet.in.

All AICTE approved technical institutions have been asked to install the downlink immediately and has urged technical institutions in the country, particularly engineering colleges, to broadcast GD3, as an essential part of their academic infrastructure.