{"id":28309,"date":"2024-11-29T03:50:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28309"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:49:13","slug":"eklavya-digital-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/eklavya-digital-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Eklavya Digital Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Eklavya Digital Platform:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been developed under the aegis of<strong> Headquarters Army Training Command with Army War College<\/strong> as the sponsor agency.<\/li>\n<li>The platform has been developed by the \u201cBhaskaracharya National Institute of Space Applications and Geoinformatics\u201d (BISAG-N), Gandhinagar, along with support from the Directorate General of Information Systems.<\/li>\n<li>This platform has been <strong>hosted on the Army Data Network<\/strong> and features a scalable architecture. This enables Headquarters Army Training Command to seamlessly integrate any number of training establishments of the Indian Army, <strong>each capable of hosting an extensive range of courses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This initiative aligns with the Indian Army propelling itself into the \u201cDecade of Transformation\u201d as envisioned by the COAS and also with Indian Army\u2019s theme for 2024 as the <strong>\u201cYear of Technology Absorption.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Student officers are permitted to register for multiple courses simultaneously.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>three categories of courses<\/strong> hosted\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u2018Pre-Course Preparatory Capsules\u2019:<\/strong> It has study material for all offline physical courses being conducted at <strong>various Category \u2018A\u2019 training establishments<\/strong>. The aim is to shift the \u201cbasics\u201d to the online courses so that physical courses have more and more contemporary content with a focus on the \u201capplication part\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appointment or specific assignment-related courses:<\/strong> The courses in this category will also enable the <strong>officers to get domain specialisation<\/strong> in the field of their choice, which will further aid their employment planning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professonal Development Suite:<\/strong> To include courses on Strategy, Operational Art, Leadership, Organisational Behaviour, Finance, Art of Reading, Power Writing, Emerging Technology etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Eklavya also has the functionality of a <strong>searchable \u201cKnowledge Highway\u201d,<\/strong> wherein various journals, research papers and articles etc are uploaded under a single window.<\/li>\n<li>The platform will go a long way in encouraging continuous professional military education in the officers, decongest and enrich the existing physical course, preparing officers for specialist appointments and encouraging domain specialisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an Autonomous Scientific Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 under the MeitY, Government of India to undertake technology development &amp; management, research &amp; development, facilitate National &amp; International cooperation, capacity building and support technology transfer &amp; entrepreneurship development in area of geo-spatial technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2078584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">INDIAN ARMY LAUNCHES \u2018EKLAVYA\u2019 ONLINE DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR OFFICERS\u2019 TRAINING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eklavya Digital Platform has been developed under the aegis of Headquarters Army Training Command with Army War College as the sponsor agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28309","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\/28309","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=28309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}