Pradeep Kaul, Senior Consultant, NMEICT
Deliberating upon the vision, initiatives of the Government and the way ahead, Pradeep Kaul, Senior Consultant, NMEICT informed that India was the first country to have used satellite in a big way for delivering education to 2400 villages, in six states, for which it signed an MOU with NASA /USA as early as on 20th September 1969.The programme was called Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) and launched from 1st August 1975 to 31st July 1996 jointly by ISRO and Doordarshan. He said that unfortunately, as a developing nation, we somewhere got left behind in pursuing the use of satellite and ICT for education. It is obvious that emphasis on ICT is a crying need as it acts as a multiplier for capacity building efforts, of educational institutions without compromising the quality. He informed that this mission seeks to support such initiatives and build upon the synergies between various efforts by adopting a holistic approach.
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