India's public broadcaster Prasar Bharati on Wednesday entered into an MoU with the ministry of electro🃏nics and information technꦰology to launch 51 direct-to-home (DTH) education TV channels.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Prasar Bharati and Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology aims to bring quality educational programmes to every household, including those in rural and remote areas, the governmenꩲt said in a statement.
&quo🍨t;Under the ambit of this MoU, 51 DTH education TV channels comprising Swaymprabha (22 channels) (M/o Education), e-Vidya for classes 1 to 12 (12 channels) of NCERT, Vande Gujarat (Govt. of Gujarat) (16 channels) and DigiShala under M/o Electronics and IT (1 channel) shall be available as DD co-branded channels to all DD FreeDish viewers. This move aims to bring quality educational programmes to every ♕household, including those in rural and remote areas,” it said.
The services will be available free of cost for all♓ the viewers 24x7, in line with the g♊overnment's commitment towards skill development and providing quality education to the last person in the country, it said.
"This government initiative will go a long way in achieving the government's goal of providing educ💛ation to all,” the statement said.
