{"id":14557,"date":"2023-09-12T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14557"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:54:26","slug":"vidya-samiksha-kendra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vidya-samiksha-kendra\/","title":{"rendered":"Vidya Samiksha Kendra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vidya Samiksha Kendra<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSKs) is a\u00a0<strong>data repository<\/strong> which will have data from\u00a0<strong>all schemes<\/strong> run by\u00a0<strong>the Ministry of Education<\/strong> (MoE).<\/li>\n<li>The control rooms of this Kendras\u00a0<strong>will collect data to track key performance indicators<\/strong> as well as analyse data collated from govt schemes \u2018using AI &amp; machine-learning.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>This repository will include regularly updated data from\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>PM-POSHAN<\/strong> mid-day meal programmes;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teacher training data<\/strong> from National Initiative for School Heads\u2019 and Teachers\u2019 Holistic Advancement portal;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Textbook conten<\/strong>t from Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing;<\/li>\n<li>School dropout and attendance-related data on Unified District Information System for Education (<strong>UDISE+);<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Students\u2019 learning outcomes from National Achievement Survey;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance Grading Index<\/strong> which evaluates school education system at the State\/U.T. level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:<\/strong> The Centre has allocated funds\u00a0<strong>ranging from 2 to 5 crore rupees<\/strong> to each State for adopting and establishing VSKs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The idea of developing VSKs is also\u00a0<strong>to map the school location layer<\/strong> with the population layer to assess the Gross Access Ratio.<\/li>\n<li>It can help plan for new schools, or for industry clusters to understand skilling requirements of the area, and help plan higher educational institutions based on demand and future scenarios.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is DIKSHA Platform?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a national platform for school education, an initiative of the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT), Ministry of Education.It provides e-content for schools via an online portal and a mobile application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/bring-assorted-data-under-one-umbrella-through-vidya-samiksha-kendras-education-ministry-tells-states\/article67288851.ece\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Education Ministry asks States to bring all data under one platform<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vidya Samiksha Kendra is a data repository which will have data from all schemes run by the Ministry of Education (MoE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}