Digital India in Action: DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing)

DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing)

• DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) is a national platform for school education, an initiative of National Council DIKSHA was developed based on the core principles of open architecture, open access, open licensing with diversity, autonomy and choice

• DIKSHA is built on open source technology, made in India and made for India, which incorporates internet scale technologies and enables several use-cases and solutions for teaching and learning. DIKSHA is built using MIT licensed open source technology called Sunbird, which is a digital infrastructure for learning and is designed to support multiple languages and solutions. DIKSHA offers over a 100 micro services as building blocks for the development of platforms and solutions. 

• DIKSHA, is available for the use of all states and UTs of India. Each state/UT leverages the DIKSHA platform in its own way, as it has the freedom and choice to use the varied capabilities and solutions of the platform to design and run programs for their teachers and learners.

• DIKSHA policies and tools make it possible for the education ecosystem (educationist, experts, organisations, institutions - government, autonomous institutions, non-govt and private organisations) to participate, contribute and leverage a common platform to achieve learning goals at scale for the country. 

• DIKSHA can be accessed by learners and teachers across the country and currently supports 18 languages and the various curricula of NCERT, CBSE and SCERTs across India. The platform is being leveraged and developed for school education, foundational learning programs and to support inclusive learning for underserved and differently-abled communities of learners and teachers.

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