NEW DELHI: Swayam Prabha, the 32 educational direct-to-home educational TV channels launched early in July, are free to air and will transmit high-quality educational content on 24X7 basis direct to every home, the Parliament has been told.

(At a National Convention on Digital Initiatives for Higher Education om 8 July 2017, it had been announced that these channels would be available on Dish TV and Doordarshan's FreeDish platforms.)

Minister of state in the ministry of human resource development Mahendra Nath Pandey said digital initiatives of his Ministry also include Swayam, an indigenous MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Platform for providing best quality education to anyone, anytime and anywhere using the IT System.

The National Academic Depository (NAD), a digital depository which authenticates all the certificates issued by Institutions according to the need of the user is another digital initiative.

The minister said these were inaugurated by former president Pranab Mukhejee at a National Convention on Digital Initiatives for Higher Education from 8 to 10 July 2017 attended by vice-chancellors of central universities, deemed-to-be universities, private universities, state universities, state-private universities, directors of central institutes such as IITs, IIMs, IISERs, IISc, IIITs, NITs and other central institutes.

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