UGC: Lokmitra will be able to do UG and PG studies from centers, UGC wrote a letter to universities and states

Now students will be able to study higher education free of cost in Lokmitra Kendras (Common Service Centers) built in Panchayat houses. The central government has created the UGC e-resource portal to provide quality higher education to rural and remote students at home. In addition to undergraduate, 23 thousand postgraduate courses will be available to the students in Lokmitra centers. The special thing is that non-engineering students will get a chance to study 25 courses in eight Indian languages.

Secretary, University Grants Commission (UGC), Prof. Rajneesh Jain wrote a letter to all the states and universities on Tuesday. It is written that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced digital education in the Union Budget 2022-23. Under this, the UGC has prepared a plan to connect rural and remote students to higher education through digital media sitting at home. In this, digital classes of higher education will also be run in the Common Service Center set up in the Panchayat. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will cooperate in this. Here higher education will be free, but the student will have to pay 20 rupees a day or five hundred rupees a month as the fees of Lokmitra Kendra. In this, 23 thousand postgraduate courses, 137 self-silent courses, and 25 non-engineering courses have been prepared in eight Indian languages.

This course is prepared in 8 Indian languages

Academic Writing, Artificial Intelligence, Communication Technologies in Education, Corporate Law, Corporate Tax Planning, City and Metropolitan Planning, Cyber ​​Security, Digital Library, Direct Tax Law and Practice, Early Childhood Care and Education, Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Functional Food and 25 courses including Nutraceuticals, Human Rights in India, Organic Chemistry, Research Methodology, Animation have been translated into Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada languages. Till now these courses were available only in the English language.

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