Stressing the need of imparting uniform education to all the students of the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that uniformity in education would bring equality in society.
“In view of the future requirements, the education should be unified and all levels of education should be coordinated so that students have alternatives to choose their areas of skill,’’ the chief minister said while dedicating to the people of the state the Unified Re-imagined Innovation for Student Empowerment (U-Rise) portal at a function in Lok Bhawan here on Thursday.
It is a joint initiative of the Technical Education department, Training and Employment department and Skill Development Mission that has been developed by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University.
Underlining the importance of this portal, the chief minister said the convergence of educationists, employers and researchers through this portal would benefit lakhs of students.
“It will empower them by providing them every possible information from online exams to digital contents, digital assessment, to digital examination papers, webinar to internship, e-library, recorded video content and lastly employment,” he pointed out.
The chief minister said that about 20 lakh students, who were getting vocational and technical education, would be benefited from this portal which would guide them from learning to career counselling to employment. The e-content, e-library and online courses available on this portal would reach even the most interior parts of the state, he said.
The chief minister said the National Education Policy-2020 also espouses the cause of uniform education.
“There is ample scope and need of the time for a multi-discipline education system weaving various streams like science, arts, social science, humanities, engineering and sports into a unified syllabus,” he said.
The chief minister said digital technology brought by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the country in 2014 had proved to be very useful.
“We managed to bust several conspiracies of fake teachers through digital technology,” he said.
Through this, all students, teachers, trainers, institutions providing employment related to technical education, ITI and skill development may converge on one place with all the relevant information about the life-cycle of a student being available here.
It will not only empower the students but also provide them a useful platform to get exposed and open up to the entire world. The aim of the portal is to ensure uniform quality education to all the students who can improve their learning curve while using this portal.
It, in fact, is a place with a unique network of trainers, faculty and industry. The students once registered will continue to receive its benefits life-long and their track records will also be digitally stored which will help them in the future for employment purposes etc.
On the occasion, the chief minister released Rs 100 crore in the second phase of Deendayal Upadhyay Quality Improvement programme. It will be spent on the development of digital and physical infrastructure of various technical institutions in the state.
