 I am so happy to see honorable minister visiting and inaugurating the AVU facility sir. IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur have been major users of this facility. You may be aware that we run trained 10,000 teachers at a time training program. We have trained more than 1,33,000 teachers thankfully under the edges of MHRD's national mission. And we have more than 357 remote centers out of which more than 200 participate in a single workshop that we conduct. Sir, this is the largest training of its kind anywhere in the world. And I am very happy to thank MHRD and the national mission for this. My colleague Professor Kannan is here, who is the coordinator of all national mission projects at IIT Bombay. I will request him to mention a few details about those projects, sir. Namaskar. We have projects like SPOCAN tutorial, E Yantra and E Kalpa in addition to the 10,000 teacher training program funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD. There are a total of about 300 full-time staff members working with about 15 faculty members. We have a large number of masters and PhD students also. We have used AVU to promote these projects as well. Thank you, sir. Yeah, very nice. Over to you. I am very happy today to launch this AVU. You have already evolved a technology which is of great importance to everybody. Can you listen? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So, this is a real development because multiplication is power and live classes by IIT to 1000s of students in IIT Madras. And I find this is very important because wherever I go, I am asking a question to all the students who wants to be the faculty next. At some places, the response is good. As I got here yesterday in Isar Mohali, but in IIM Shillong, there was nobody ready to become faculty. So that there will be shortage of faculty, good faculties in days to come, maybe. But we need to, we need this technology to take good teaching. Good teachers can reach out to 1000s of schools and lakhs of children simultaneously. So, Swayam is one part of the story. But AVU is also very important. I worked in one working group on the process of Government of India in year 2000. And that time I remember very, we decided to have every weekly meeting on Tuesday. So, I used to have used 32 screens of NIC. And all participants used to come to the NIC centers at their convenient places. And things happened very smoothly. In three months, we could produce a report. And that's how things can be worked out. It increases efficiency. It increases our reach. It increases the reachiness of the content and more interaction. I declare that the AVU 5.0 is released and is open now for use all over the world. Next slide. Next. So, we are very happy to say that AVU is already being used in 10,000 institutions back all over India. And this 10,000 institutions are listed on our website. They are mostly colleges. Next. I would like to say that with lot of support and some push by, you know, specifically Professor Fartag and Kannan. Now, we have made AVU completely open source. And it is available to the entire world. This project, sir, to use it and modify it. Anybody can customize it and change it according to their liking. Anybody can set it up on their own premises. Anybody can use it. Anybody can integrate it. It works on internet, satellite and land. And I would really like to thank Professor Kannan and Professor Fartag who have been instrumental in guiding us. Amrita and IIT Bombay have had a long relations. And now IIT Kadakpur also together, you know, Amrita has developed this from the start, but we have had great guidance and support from IIT Bombay. Next. Now I can easily, you know, start using it and take all the benefit out of other IIMs of better people. Next. So, this can also, you can record your own lectures in this version of AVU, which means that you can create your own content basically with video, with your own audio video. Next. You can also monitor people. That means with AVU across India, you can monitor what is going on. We are also customizing it so that you can monitor it for invigilation and exams. So, you can actually see what is going on and you can zoom into people as you need to. Next. There will be two types of AVU mobile apps. One is the regular app, which will give you all the functions of AVU. But because it is a video conferencing project, it does not work on the very lowest end mobile apps. So, AVU Lite will work on any phone, the lightest and the cheapest smartphone. And it will be like the WhatsApp of education. And it will allow you to do quizzes, polls and questions live. Next. There are many more features that I can go on, but I'd like to pause here and show you that we are working on many other features also. We will have now Kiran give like a one minute demonstration of some of the features of AVU. And then we will interact with a few other institutions. Hi, this is a demo class on sustainable energy where energy can be produced from wind. So, this is a very typical three blade design windmill. Let us see how a windmill actually works. So, I'm loading something known as a 3D viewer where I'm going to zoom in on a windmill. So, here I can see that here are the blades of the windmill. You can see the label also. Here are some gears. There is a belt, a coil and an electrical meter body. So, I can turn this around and show this how this thing looks from various angles. And a very interesting feature is that I can play an animation and it actually shows how the windmill and the gear system and the coils move. And finally, we can see how the power is coming here in this meter body. Now, let us take a look at a whiteboard wherein we have actually showed you the power and the wind speed relationship. So, the windmill actually starts only at something known as a cut in speed and here at 3 meters per second is known as a cut in speed where power generation starts. Then with the wind speed, the power increases and reaches a rated output power. And this point is known as a cut out speed, this particular point wherein the wind energy stops and the windmill stops. So, thank you very much. This was a small demo class where we have seen three features, document, a whiteboard and a 3D viewer. Thank you very much. And we can also do quiz and polling. So, you can have thousands of people logged in. As Professor Phartak said, he has conducted 10,000 teacher classes. We will now interact with a few other institutes. So, we have IIT Madras who runs the quality enhancement program under Professor Junjunwala. Akhila, please go ahead. Go ahead. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. This is Akhila speaking on behalf of Professor Ashok Junjunwala. Professor, our project is called as QEE, which is Quality Enhancement in Engineering Education. We are running this project from 2014 to about reaching to about 120 colleges, engineering colleges, tier one and tier two colleges. And we have right now in this current phase, we have around 68,000 students benefiting out of this program. And we have around short modules, we concentrate on short modules, teaching to the students which are core engineering topics, targeting mostly the first, second and the third year students. This is about a program, sir. IIT Kharagpur. Yeah. Please go ahead. Namaskar, sir. This is Professor Rajadatta from IIT Kharagpur. So, we are running a trained 10,000 teachers program from January to 2013. And till now, we have conducted six complete workshops and we have trained more than 45,000 teachers online. And the best part of it is that we are maintaining a gender ratio of 30s, more than 36% of women teachers being trained out of that 45,000 teachers. And the reason being that once we are teaching online and the women teachers can take this course from nearer to their home and they don't need to come to the places like IITs and all. So, this is one of the best part of it. The second is that we are getting a very good age group of the participants. Like 25 to 30, we are getting 43% of the participants are in the age group of 25 to 30. Around 27% is 30 to 35. And then less than 25 years of age, also around 12%. Those who are fresh, we take. And they have just joined as a faculty, but then they want to complete their masters and PhDs. So, that is the thing. And overall rating, even if you are taking it online, we have got a very good overall rating of the courses. Like around 45% is excellent. And 42% we have got very good. So, the quality of the courses are not compromised. If you are doing this type of online courses and obviously a view has helped us a lot in this. Thank you. That's from IIT Karakul sir. Thank you, sir. Dr. Senthil from ISRO, IIRS, Dehradun, please go ahead. Yeah, very good afternoon, sir. Honourable Minister for HRD. IIRS, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing in the unit of ISRO, Dedicated for Importing Training and Education in the field of remote sensing, GIS and GNSS. It's partly, as you know, last year we had a Prime Minister addressing to the ISRO initiated meeting, national meet on use of geospatial technology for governance. So, we have been doing this for quite a long time. In fact, our outreach program, we have been training the students for building the capacity building for the country. And also, we have restarted this program with the help of AVU software as early as August 2011. In fact, first of all, I sincerely thank MHRD and the developers of AVU platform for providing such a very workable and very interactive platform for distance learning. And we have conducted quite a number of courses. Of course, we are now doing 12 courses with the help of Amita University. And already 32,000 participants have been benefited. And we are already connected to 462 institutions in which we have 301 the academic institutions as well as the government organizations, more than about 151. Now with the geospatial technology importance raised by the Honorable Prime Minister in the national meet, there are a lot many state government departments are now joining in our courses. So, knowing their importance and requirements, now we have started short term courses which are really well appreciated and being attended by many state government officials also. So, we are very much benefited from this and we will continue our support for the government and particularly in the use of geospatial technology for governance and also improving the geospatial technology for the governance as well as for building the capacity building for the country. And of course, we are very happy to note from the release that now we are going to have the satellite networking also in AvU 5.0. This is going to be a very important component. And I am sure you so jointly with AWVU will contribute many more context. In fact, we have been just completed the state meet with Himachal Pradesh and many other states where the connectivity is a problem by Terrestrial and I am sure with the help of AWVU and the satellite networking from ISRO, we should be able to reach the unreachable students as well as officials. Thank you very much for this opportunity and look forward to hear from you something. Swami Ramanand. Yeah, I would just request, there are few more institutes. I would just request everyone to please, since the minister has to leave in a few minutes, please be brief to please keep it to around 30 seconds. Thank you. Good afternoon. I am very happy to interact with honorable minister and I am happy to say that AWVU has been very useful for this university. We have been broadcasting many national programs and to the colleges and institutes and many students have interacted through that. Last two years I am conducting one program where I talk to the students and teachers directly through AWVU at the beginning of the year and I listen to the students about their problems, suggestions and that is how we carry out that throughout the year. And this being a very, means area where there is a rural and tribal background also. I am very happy that even the remotest villages, they are actually interacting and they are participating in this program. And in future we plan to actually conduct certain say courses with the help of AWVU like say foundation course in competitive examination and all. Laudakar Sahib is very happy to talk to you and he has a great facility and he is also a member of AWVU. Thank you very much. Thank you sir. Amal Jyoti, please go ahead. Please keep it short. Yes, Dr. Joe's principal of MLG, College of Engineering. Go ahead. Just select somebody else quickly. We will come back to him. Just call him on the phone. Yes, Father Joe's principal of MLG College of Engineering, Kottayam Kerala is speaking. We were using this AWVU right from the beginning as IIT Bombay was organizing the classes, remote classes. We were also participating right from the beginning and in the first evaluation among the remote centers, Amal Jyoti was rated as the five star remote center and we were making use of it thereafter after the model of the IITs. We also started doing things on our own. We collected some around 12-13 centers in Kerala initially and were having a one-day seminar. Then after we took it nationally, we could connect some around 45 centers and then we could give a two-day seminar which was on research methodology and the number of participants were more than 3000. And last year, we could conduct a national conference. The presentations took place from different states, from different centers and participants also were from different places. And it was a fabulous thing. We could do it in a very good way and we are making use of the potentials of this AWVU and we are extremely happy to see that AWVU version five is getting released now, an honorable minister. We are extremely happy to join. We will support in every way and we will make use of all the opportunities that are given us. And also there is a request to the minister, if possible, AJAC also must be connected to NKN, National Knowledge Network as well. I think it is already been connected to colleges as arts. This is a self-financing college but we are doing very good work, connecting most of the colleges in Kerala and even outside. And also, if possible, TECIP also can be extended to colleges like us. This one request to honorable minister. Thank you very much. I am concerned. My only mission is to improve quality of higher education and even in primary education. So using technology, using technology all over and there is no self-financing of private or public. Networking is for all and so we will, I am holding a separate meeting also for that and so we will take this technology and benefit arising out of it to all the institutes who want it because I think students have right to a better education, to a quality education. Dr Mohan Singh, please go ahead. Very good afternoon sir, to you and honorable minister. On behalf of the RDPV, I welcome both of you for developing this wonderful system which is being used all over MP for conducting the practical online examinations. The RDPV, this is the Rajiv Gandhi project, it has conducted the bio-oversea part of the practical examination successfully of about 80,000 students, 40,000 in each semester by using the ABU. And I am on behalf of the RDPV, thankful to Professor Bijla Nisa for developing the high quality application for conducting this bio-oversea part of the examination. As honorable ministers are as you are aware of that there are many private colleges across the states and they do not have the faculty. So to conduct the practical examination in a very short period of time is very difficult and so we are very thankful for Professor Kamal Bijlaani to develop that application based on ABU to conduct the bio-oversea part of the practical examination and it has been done very successfully and that examination was conducted online in the real-time basis by actually deploying the connectivity to servers at Hyderabad. So we are very thankful to you and my request is sir to have the interface of this ABU in Hindi so the maximum actually people across the student they are coming from the ruler background so they can able to understand and can make the use of this very very successful. Thank you very much sir. Yeah you you Professor Sen you raised two important issues is that students will get good education and you can conduct practical examinations with this help of ABU but shortage of faculty will not be condoned. It should be used as a faculty development program because I learn every day. I learn every day from somebody who speaks more good than me who does something very nicely than me so I learn from everybody so everybody has to learn and this is a great learning tool so that is one aspect. Yes so it is not compromising quality or deficiencies it is actually more of a encouragement to improve the quality. Yes sir even we are able to use the ABU even in the tribal parts of the state like Betul and Balaghat so that was the basically the quality of the program and the kind of the platform that it has given us the use of the it has facilitated us to conduct this examination across all parts of the Madhya Pradesh sir. Thank you very good. Next next next. Hello Niter Bhopal can you please talk. Good afternoon sir. Go ahead go ahead. Sir Namaskar Bhopal, Niter Bhopal. We have conducted using ABU technology successfully some of the very good programs of future training across country. Our initial phases for two years we use this platform for connecting to 40 different polytechnics within and not only within the western region that is Girat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh but also across other states namely Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and looking at the ability to reach out to such wider population of teachers we are quite encouraged that the features of release five would even enable us in much more efficient and better ways to harness this technology for reaching out to the teachers in polytechnic and engineering colleges sir. In fact sir there is dire need to use this technology in wake of the newer outcome based paradigm which our country has introduced in the engineering education system and looking at the the capacity of teachers who are knowledgeable about such newer paradigms I think best use of such technologies can be that we we use ABU not only for conventional teacher training programs but also for introducing newer reforms and the innovations in the education system. Thank you sir we look forward to using this in much more efficient and better ways. I gave two chances for two MP institutes because I am MP from MP but Agartala. Yes hello. Namaskar sir, Jyodekar sir on the news for Charity. I am Dr Bhopal Mugaraya representing the remote space of India. I am a director of NIT Agartala and NIT Mizzarong. In the South Indian I took a challenge of working in North East. Incidentally I was blessed with our BOG chairman Dr Patak and we have been using this ABU very effectively and we had a great challenge of the connectivity in North East as you know to physically come to Agartala is so difficult personally to the challenge and through this ABU we are training our student and faculty as rightly HRD minister said this ABU should be used as icing on the cake should not be used as a cake our teaching learning process should continue and ABU effort can be for icing of the cake and I should congratulate Dr Patak and Amrita for his wonderful initiative and we are using it and we are going to use it effectively for the overall development of North East sections. Sir we expect you to come and bless us in our place in Agartala and encourage your faculty members. Absolutely I'll come. Next Next JNTU are you ready JNTU Kakinada. Yes sir good morning sir Kakinada go ahead Mahanyam Mantri Mahode Javadekarji good morning sir and remaining dignitaries it's a pleasure to use ABU sir we have effectively utilized ours is a technological university with 262 affiliated colleges so we started giving our own courses taught by the experts from IIT Chennai Tata consultancy services and professors from Berkeley Extension Center in the crucial areas of data structures database big data analytics these subjects we were handling sir and simultaneously we were deploying one faculty member from each private college so that they will be trained under the expertise of those people and they will be helping in solving some assignments also so we are comfortable the quality of education will enhance through this and we are very much thankful to the ABU for providing this opportunities sir and we have an MOU and around in our curriculum around 12,000 students are being benefited sir we are we started one year back started with around 500 students now 12,000 students are being benefited with this sir and we are trying sir no entrepreneurship has already taken lead in Gyan also foreign faculty is coming in and completing the courses giving good lectures to our students as a simultaneously you have also some universities have started online courses of their own I welcome all such ventures because everything adds to add something new to the efforts hello honorable minister myself actually director of Chennai so actually every year actually we turn our ABU program we every year you train around 2500 teachers of our techniques and engineering colleges or south indian states of five states and one unilaterally so this program actually very effectively applies for transforming the knowledge at the engineering college level as well as per technique actually we want that we're happy that this also can to enhance your higher version that will help for for our five south indian states that one unilaterally that's secondary and we are looking after this program is more effective for transforming knowledge at the engineering college other techniques thank you very much thank you gtu please yes this is vithal karmath the director of the sun cool of gtu basically the sun cool concept was introduced by dr Akshay Agarwal to basically link up the industries with the various academic institutions so my role has been to basically offer state-of-the-art technology solutions to students of gtu essentially we have noticed that under gtu we have a large number of private institutes which do not have access to quality teachers so our role was basically to fill in that gap and we took up a course say one course in electronics where we noticed that students were you know attempted to offer projects from the open market rather than build the projects in the various institutes themselves by with their own hands so we took up a very interesting you know project to bring in state-of-the-art technologies to the students where they would build their projects with their own hands and we use the avu as an effective platform for conducting this this kind of experiment it was a very successful experiment a large number of institutes we have over 100 engineering colleges under gtu so all of them participated in this wonderful venture thank you yeah neeter kalgatha we have been using this view for a long time we will look forward to use it more to cover remote area teachers as well as students we thank you for giving the opportunity we look forward to use it more so that we can reach a wider number of faculty from politics and because i think we covered most of them yeah but i'm very happy and let me again reiterate government is committed to increase the use of technology more innovation in communication because this is ultimately is i think the students right to get best education if is not served by the uh professors or teachers there because of positive because of many things and this will also this will also encourage teachers to become good teachers to become best teachers because that motivation should not end because somebody's best teacher is available online and therefore i should be lazy that won't work i think it's it will work as a motivation to all the teachers to become better and best and therefore uh this avu is really uh i saw it after after doctor requested me but this is i'm so happy today because this is the technology uh which we are using very effectively and i saw the effect right now so i think thousands of students and thousands of faculties will benefit from this and this is where we want to take and particularly i like the invigilation work it was too difficult to invigilate without technology earlier i was senate member at my age of 25 and as a i appeared uh in two notorious center as a student with the taking ticket from uh vice chancellor and then i i went as a student inside i started writing paper and then i saw who is doing all copies and then i grabbed them all and throw them out so that was a very surprising action for uh all the classes but that's how things happen now technology is brought us we can see from but it will be a choice if i uh police choice if i kill chalega because uh they come up with something new we have to come up with news something new but that's how we can keep to you know what i think that's that's what we should always aim at so there are n number of uses of technology and this facility of communication i'm so happy to release this abu 5.0 thank you thank you sir on behalf of amrita and iit bombay our close partner and h rd ministry we would like to conclude this program for today thank you all for attending thank you all for using avu and supporting it and we look forward to continue working with all of you in the near future thank you very much good out