 have Thursday events, but still the connect was missing at some level where we can see face-to-face and at least say, hi, hello, how are you? We don't do that otherwise. So we are extremely happy that you all could make it here today and we hopefully should have a fruitful interaction over the next four hours that we'll have the event. Schedule of the event will be, yes, we will start with presentations from our side on whatever NPTEL has been doing over the last couple of years and specifically this semester of Jan 2022. And we'll talk about the new initiatives that we have that the colleges can make use of. We'll also have an interaction time where you all can bring out either concerns, suggestions, recommendations for what you think we should be doing and how we can improve and improve the effectiveness of the delivery of the program as well as anything else that you would like us to be doing from our side. So that also we will have. And of course the most important part, the distribution and recognition of the local chapters who have done very well in Jan 2022 specifically for today and the top 10, top 100, the local chapter special category certificates that we'll be giving out. So that will be the layout of the program today. Our team is all here for help. I think all of them are wearing tags. If you have any queries, you can reach out to them in the tea break or lunch. We'll all also be available here. Like to introduce the coordinators who are here, Prasad Uthangraj, most of you know, I think he is here today to be with us. So he's there. Then Prasad Pratap Haridas, all of you know as the coordinator, like I said, he's now dean, academic courses in IIT Madras. He's the vice chair of the NPTEL program implementation committee. So still takes care of NPTEL. We don't let him go at all. We keep pulling him back to NPTEL anyways. Prasad Vignesh Mutawijain from Department of Biotechnology who's joined as NPTEL coordinator. Prasad Ramakrishna, who's from Department of Electrical Engineering who's again joined as an NPTEL coordinator at IIT Madras. Prasad Nikit Kaisare is also a coordinator. He's on sabbatical in the US. So he's not able to join us today. And very, very happy to have with us Professor Mangal Sundar, who is in the Department of Chemistry and started the entire NPTEL initiative. What we'll have today, the seeds were sown by him. He's logged it out for about 15, 17 years to see that this whole thing was through and he actually handed it over on a platter to us. So what we did was nothing compared to, I think, what they all did in those initial years. So we'll have some words from him initially. So I invite Professor Andrew to start off with the presentation now. He'll run through a few slides, then have Professor Mangal. Good morning, everyone. Very, very warm welcome to IIT Madras. The weather has been unusually pleasant this week. So I hope many of you are from Chennai or from outside? How many of you are from Chennai? Very few, okay. Maybe Chennai is not too bad. I guess people are coming from, anyone from Kerala? Oh, so maybe you feel the heat a little bit more. I guess Reigns have started there. Welcome, warm welcome. And like Bharti said, it's really great to see actual people in a meeting so far. We're just used to seeing, so used to seeing virtual people that it's been a while since we've had this. I think the last one was 2020, January, right? More than two years ago, we really missed this workshop, okay? So that much is definitely true. We used to look forward to it every semester, catching up with everyone, sharing numbers and then seeing how to improve everything, all of that. So the first few slides I'm gonna talk about are more or less a recap of what has happened in this semester and also I think a few previous semesters in terms of numbers and all that. So it probably sets the stage for the discussions that we'll have later, okay? Let me get started. Okay, so that's the portal. All of us know about it, nptl.ac.in. It's one of the leading portals in the world today in terms of amount of content we have and the amount of usage. And the numbers you can see are quite staggering and we are increasing every day as you know, right? More and more new courses keep coming. We are at 2,400 plus, which I think is a huge, huge, huge number for us and 1.4 billion views and look at the numbers in 50,000 plus hours of videos and 4 million plus subscribers in YouTube. All of these numbers are growing at a healthy rate and we're very happy to report these kind of numbers. Definitely, I think if you look at hardcore engineering content, nptl is definitely way ahead of anyone else and we don't have such numbers for the portal so we're not able to really compare. Nevertheless, it's definitely one of the largest in the world today. And more than the count of the numbers, I think the usage also is very high, so that's very nice. Okay, so now the effort that is a bit more recent than nptl.ac.in is this online certification effort which started sometime in 2014, long back, eight years ago. I don't know, maybe some of you have been with us since 2014. Can I see a show of hands? How many of you? Ah, see, I know him. Yes, I can see familiar faces. We started in a small way. I remember the first meeting we had with 10 colleges in this very building upstairs. Then we talked about how to make this better, et cetera, et cetera. And today we have done wonderfully well. You can see the numbers of more than 4,000 courses we have run in the certification mode. Every semester we run these days 500, 600 plus. I think the next semester some 600 plus courses and 1.82 crore plus student enrollments. Eight years have passed, I need my glasses sometimes to see these numbers getting old also. So nearly 20 lakh people have written exams. I think that again shows how things have worked out quite well and then 620 courses. I think overall, to me, these numbers show that every stakeholder is sort of happy with what's going on. Stakeholder meaning not just students, I think colleges are happy, faculty are happy, teachers are happy. I think the people who teach these courses offer these courses on the platform, they are happy and overall it's working out quite well. Okay, so that's about the online certification effort. So I think this, most of you know, I'll just go through very quick. Our course content is reasonably standard in terms of what we have on offer. The lecture is the most important part. We have assignments of various types, text transcripts today, multiple languages are beginning to show up. There is a discussion forum where you can ask questions and live sessions. I think there are many new initiatives, particularly in live sessions. Last semester we tried something new. We want to talk about that and let's see. Let's see what more we can add. I think we can always add more things. There's always talk of more interactive content, more interesting content. If we have any clear ideas, we can talk more on how to improve the content as well. In terms of engagement, we expect that the good learners will engage with us about 10 hours a week per course. I think that's what ends up happening. There's watching the lectures, there's assignments, questions in the forum, going through transcripts and maybe other material that's given to you. So about 10 hours a week is a pretty good estimate for doing one course. Okay, now credit transfer is one more thing. I think some of you might already know about this, but if you're new to it, UGC of course allows credit transfer from NPTEL courses, from SWIM courses, NPTEL courses, definitely. And the way the split goes is 14 hours of learning is about one credit, roughly. This is the way we can do that. So if we do a four week course, we recommend one credit for it, that this is our recommendation. And I think many board of studies and academic councils have interpreted this very differently. But most of them sort of go with this recommendation. Four week course is one credit, eight week course is two credit, and for a 12 week course, we recommend three or four credits. I think always you can do one more extra credit if you think the student is working hard enough or maybe you add something to the course that then it's on offer. So credit transfer is a huge reason why this continues to be popular across the board. So many colleges have opted for this. In fact, it's interesting that the number of students who declare that they're doing it for credit transfer has grown to huge numbers. But we don't seem to get data from colleges and universities on how exactly they're implementing this. This seems to be a difficult data for us to collect. Every time we have a meeting in the ministry, the secretary will always ask us for this kind of deal. Can you give me more precise detail on how universities are doing credit transfer? And all the time we say is we have numbers, but we don't really know how they're doing it. So I think if we can brainstorm a little bit and figure out how to connect and make that gap go away, how do we know how it is that credit transfer is happening? This is important because at the level of the government, they want to see how effective these things are. So this is quite an important thing to track. Okay, so the process has been detailed. Like I said, various universities or colleges or autonomous colleges or university departments, they all do it very, very differently. IITM, for instance, does it in its own way. So many things are possible. And one of the interesting things I think that has come recently is domains, NPTEL domains. Instead of doing one course, you can do multiple courses and pick up a domain. So that gives you this added advantage of mastery of a subject, which you can use here. I believe some domain scholars have been invited here. Maybe we should have them say hi to everybody. Can we have domain scholars who are in the audience stand up and say hi? Yeah, see, you see so many of them. It's great. Let's have a round of applause for them. It's great to see them. Thank you. Thanks for coming. Please be seated. So a domain is defined as a set of courses curated in a particular way for you to become an expert in one area. And all these areas are listed. There are some 50 odd domains, I think, now. So there'll be more details coming up later. So to me, that sounds like a very nice way to do credit transfer, sort of letting students do some random courses. If you let them pick, they'll pick the soft skills and courses of that nature, which is okay. I think it's all right, but still maybe they could try something more interesting like this. And I would urge you to please keep it flexible. I know your world looks different from how I see it, but I think making it mandatory for students, compulsory for them to do those kind of things, I don't know, I'm not a big fan. I've always said you should keep it flexible. Definitely not in their final semester. Don't make anything compulsory in the final semester, because if they don't do well, then it's very hard for us to deal with that situation. So I think I hope you work with us. We're happy to work with you. In fact, we have people here who can help you on giving information on how other colleges are doing it and what works, what doesn't work, et cetera. So this one, it's okay. I think this is just how much UGCACT allows. It's about 40% now. Used to be 20, it's become 40%. Many IITs do it. Increasingly, more and more IITs are signing up for credit transfer here. IIT Madras, of course, does it. Many of the newer IITs also do it. So the IITs do it in a certain way also. We're happy to share all this information with you. This information we have, how the IITs do it, it would be good to get more information from others. So some more examples. So should I talk more about this or is it okay if I skip this, go through a little bit faster? You can see quite a few universities, the technical universities do it in a certain way. If you look at autonomous colleges, they like to do it in a different way. If you look at affiliated colleges, it happens in a different way for them. I think, for instance, JNTU, if you're under JNTU, I think JNTU has very strict rules on what courses are allowed and what semester for what students. So I think different flavors are there. But many universities also do it very openly and freely. They just say you can do any course you like. So that also happens. Okay, some more numbers. Maybe I should wear my glasses at this point. So some more numbers that are coming up. So all these numbers are nice. I think I don't know when we'll reach a point where we'll stop putting up these numbers. We've been tacking it from 2014 and you can see it's increasing, increasing, increasing. I don't know if it'll ever saturate or if it should saturate or not. The one of the questions the ministry asks, which is very interesting is, in any discipline, what is the maximum number of courses that are there? Okay, this is a question that gets asked very seriously by I think maybe somebody in planning commission is asking this question. I don't know. What is the maximum number of courses you can have? So my answer to them also always is any self-respecting academic will say the answer is infinity. How can you say what is the maximum number of courses in particular discipline? So, but anyway, so I think we will saturate eventually because I think I'll be alive and streaming. So I should be politically correct. Be very careful. No, I mean, I think it's a valid point. So I think we will eventually saturate at some point. Maybe about a thousand. I don't know. Maybe we'll get there. So we are growing. That's a good sign. And if you look at by department, I think this is something that we are extremely proud of. If you look at courses in any discipline, right? So if you want civil engineering courses, mechanical engineering courses, it's really difficult to find any other source. Our portal provides it. You can see the numbers are quite even mining engineering. We have 10 courses, ocean engineering, textile technology. Difficult to find these courses elsewhere. And we have all of these lined up for you. And of course the popular ones, I think RCS and Humanities, these end up being extremely popular in terms of takers. So who is offering these courses? You can see this number is also increasing. Used to be only the seven older IITs in ISC Bangalore. And those still have a very large number. But you can see the newer institutes are coming in. And we are working very closely with them to get more and more institutes into offering of courses. And that's a nice sign. And some of these courses end up quite well. We do look at quality and things like that. Our NPTEL PIC controls this thing of who can offer courses through NPTEL. There is interest from the Ministry for NPTEL to offer more and more interesting courses targeting others as well. So that 817 plus 332 that you see is 332 is not IITM, but in all these other institutes with whom we coordinate. So all of these are top institutes in the country, as you know. Okay, so now there's also health science, which is becoming a little bit more prevalent in NPTEL. Are there any health science, dental, medical, college type representatives here? Pharmacy, maybe? They always ask us that you don't have enough courses. That's true. We are trying our best to come up with something. I think it's tough to do courses on health science. Some very few that we can route there. And you can see this number is also growing slowly. We've also had a few teachers from outside the country come in and offer courses on NPTEL. Okay, so one interesting thing, this has gone through a very sharp change. There was a time when new courses used to be a lot. When we offered 500 courses, more than 300 or so would be new and then 200 would be rerun. Now it has completely reversed, okay? Overall, even if you see, if you look at July, December, 2022, which is upcoming courses, more than 500 are reruns. Only about 110 are new. So again, that points towards the saturation that is happening. Maybe people don't wanna create new content anymore. So we'll see where we end up. So now rerun is always good because you have the past information, right? You can go and see, ask people how they've done in the past and that information is always useful in making this decision. Yeah, so you'll also have assignments from the past which is available on NPTEL.ac. And if you go to NPTEL.ac.n, you go to the course that you're interested in, it'll also have tabs to show how many times it has run in the past. And you can go there and download the information about what happened in the run, right? So you can look at even, even the assignments are available, right? So you can really practice all of that and that's quite useful. Okay, so another interesting thing which is very different in our portal compared to many other portals. So quite often, if you go to a generic ATIC portal, they'll have eight hours for one course, right? So you can see many of our courses end up being 12 weeks. 12 weeks and it's like 35 or 36 hours is quite common for a particular course that we have and that's because we're really targeting a college audience and this is for college credit. So I guess it's okay. And you can see 12 week courses are extremely popular and then come the eight week courses and finally the four week courses. And there's a big request coming up for people to offer 12 week courses and that's nice to see. I think it's good to see that. Okay, this is a slide with a lot of numbers. I'm gonna ask all of you to by heart all these numbers and repeat to me. It's not what's going to happen. So one thing that's very interesting is the number of new learners who join the portal every term, okay? So I think that is the main number that I want you to focus on. Well, I'll come down to the other numbers and that's the only number that's being reported here. Okay, so out of the total number of people who sign up for courses in a particular term, you take for instance January, April 22, more than 22 lakh learners signed up and out of them more than nearly 12 lakh are new. New meaning they came in, created an account and then registered for the course. So I don't know, I mean how do you interpret that? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? So it's a good mix because about half of the people are coming back again, which is nice. So they're not going away, but half are going away. So it sort of represents the way education works, I think. Maybe about half the people are really interested in learning, half the people are just interested in the certificate, right? I got one certificate I'm done, which is okay. I think it's all right, that's a good thing to see, but it's a good mix and we're getting newer and newer people. And if you look at 11 lakhs as a number, right? Newer people are coming in. I think about seven lakhs and that will be engineering. Is that correct? Roughly, six, seven lakhs. And if you look at the number of engineering seats in the country, it's about eight to 10 lakhs. So it looks like a huge fraction of engineering students at least are coming into our portals. Now here I want to raise one interesting observation. Eight to 10 lakhs is the number of people who join engineering colleges in the country. What do you think is the number that joins arts and science colleges? B-A-C-B-A-B-Com. More than that, yes, good, but how much more? Is it 12 lakhs, 13 lakhs, or is it much bigger than that? Any guesses? Nobody wants to guess. These numbers are available. You can go look at A-A-S-H-E, All India, this college education survey that the ministry does. You can go look at the numbers. There are like some 60, 65 lakh students who join B-A-B-A-C-B-Com every year. That order, okay? So from there, from that segment, for some reason, at least in NPTEL, the numbers are low. I believe even in Swayam, the numbers are low. There's, it's a big challenge. You have seen arts and science. I mean, are there many arts and science colleges here represented here? So maybe that's the brainstorming that we need to do. What is it that we have to do to have, let's say, I mean, maybe not half, at least one third of those students. That should be like 20 lakhs, right? So if you say across the country, maybe even not across the country, maybe across the country is very hard. Let's focus on the states in the southern side, right? If you look at Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, I think the significant, there's quite a high population of students in colleges here. The enrollment ratio is very high here. So you have people going to colleges. And even here, I think the number of people from arts and science colleges who come in and take these courses is low. And we don't know what to do. In fact, in the previous swayam board meeting, the secretary asked us specifically to focus on this as a, those given the numbers, this number is much bigger. I mean, even though on engineering side, we're able to make an impact on the arts and science side, we have to make inroads. And maybe that's one more topic we can bring up for discussion later. Okay, so this is another very interesting number, which is how many people register for exams and how many people are present? So out of the 21 odd lack, which registered enrolled, nearly three and a half lack registered for the exam. So if you were to just divide that blindly, right? Three and a half by 21, that's I think some 17% or so. That's pretty high. Considered really, really high in particularly in the online course world, where you can just sign up without any money, right? So I think it's considered quite high. So this is another number that we track. These buildings are becoming bigger and bigger and maybe we should have a clever way of, maybe we should stop from 2014 and focus more. We don't like to do that. So one of the interesting things that we track here is how many people submit the first assignment? Because I think that's a very clear indicator. A lot of people click and join. Nobody will come to the portal after that, not nobody. Many people won't come to the portal after that, but even if they come, they look at the first week's lectures and run away. There's a crowd of that nature also. And then there's the segment which is able to look at the lectures, look at the assignment, and able to answer the first week's assignment. So if you look at, let's look at Jan April 22, the right most thing in the graph, about 36, oh, this is percent. Okay, I was thinking, what is this Y axis? Okay, so about 36% of the people who enrol submit the first assignment. That itself is a reasonable number, it's not that bad. And if you look at exam registration to assignment one submission, that's close to 50%. About half the people who submit the first assignment end up registering for the exam. So that's a very good sign. And we can be quite efficient with these kinds of things. It's not very random. It's not like people are doing things randomly here. So this number also is something that we track. Discipline-wise, what is going on? You can see computer science and engineering is the largest. Maybe we should sort this by descending order. It's easier to read out. And then you have humanities and then you have, I think, management, then civil, et cetera. So different disciplines are interesting. And it's not like the smaller disciplines are short-changed either. They do have a respectable number of people doing courses. Attendance has always been huge. About more than 90% end up in NPTEL exams. And that's a very nice indicator that people who register for the exam feel confident enough to come and write. That's a nice thing to see. Reminder on the past percentage and how to pass a course, right? So this is the latest we have for non-programming courses. It's a bit different for programming courses. It's a bit different. There are two, three criteria. I haven't kept up with it for a while. I think I hope I'm right here. So basically for the average, for the assignments, you need to have some sort of average of 40%. It's not a direct average. There is some best something out of something. All of that is calculated. And then you need to have 40% there. If you don't have 40% there, you will not get a certificate, okay? 25% of your overall marks comes from the assignments, but you need to have 40% there. And of course in the proctored exam alone, you need to have 40%. If you don't do that, then you won't get a certificate. For programming courses, there is an additional requirement that we will conduct a non-proctored programming exam. And for that also, you have to pass. You have to get more than 40%. So now when we introduce this, there was a big hue and cray about will students pass, what will happen to them, will they get certificates? And all of this is not a problem. The past percentage remains healthy. I think we introduced it in Jan 21, right? That's when we introduced it. So it's been dropping, dropping a little bit, not too much, not too much that we have to panic, but it's about 70%. I think 70% seems to be the past percentage. Earlier it used to be 85 when we didn't have the proctored exam minimum requirement. Now we have the proctored exam minimum requirement. It's about 70, it's not bad. I think 70% is reasonable, but we are trying methods to improve this. How do we get this 70% back to the 80, 85 is an important point for discussion. We tried something in the last term, last semester, the live sessions by some PhD students of IITM. For instance, they came and did some live sessions. I don't know if that helped. So we are looking at this percentage also. In fact, this percentage, if you look at it, I think if you look at it discipline wise, it's very interesting. And you can see that also dictates how many people sign up for the discipline. So I think if you take electrical, for instance, you can all guess what do you think will be in electrical. Do you think it'll be 70%? No, no, electrical course is always tough. So you'll see the past percentage is very low and then humanity is ends up being very high. So naturally students go towards humanities, but we don't want that entirely to be the driving factor. So we will think on how to increase this past percentage across the board. So submission of assignments has been quite healthy. Programming courses, non-programming courses, there is tens of lakhs of assignment submissions and that's also very nice to see. So these are split across four weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks, enrollment, registration, total submissions of assignments. Okay, so this is I think an interesting question. So we always ask during the exam registration, why did you take this course? What prompted you to take this course? So these are statistics from those answers. Okay, so these are just learners responding. Some learners might really know why they're doing, some learners won't really know what they're doing, they'll just click it. I know, but I mean generally this shows a good trend. I think the trends are very, very, very interesting. And you can see credit transfer has really increased in the last semester. Huge increase compared to before and a lot of students are doing it for credit in their college. And you can see the next biggest reason is updating themselves in the area, which is nice to hear. And then getting jobs and internships. So people are increasingly seeing this as being valuable for getting jobs and internships. So these three seem to be the three big reasons why people are doing these courses. In terms of gender, we've been at the 60-40 ratio. I don't know if we'll ever cross this boundary. We'll see if we can work on that. So this is something we can think of. In terms of faculty participation, it's been really good. It's been about 20% of students who enroll have been faculty and that's very nice to see. There are some FDP and other things that faculty get out of it. So it's quite valuable for us to see that faculty are participating in very, very large numbers. So by the way, 20% of three and a half lakhs is quite big. So in terms of number of faculty. So I think the reduction is just because the total number of registrations is so high and the number of faculty is not that high. So you don't go in any other way. The numbers have been increasing definitely. So you see it goes from 34,000 to 41,000. Just that the fraction is lower because total number of people registered is higher. Okay, so this is how the certificate looks. It's a standardized format and eight years, I don't know, should we change the format? No, no, shouldn't change the format, okay. Anyway, so it looks the same. It looks a little dull, I think. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Okay, the backside has a QR code and some information about what the certificate is. So now the exam process is a huge operation and once again, I wanna thank all of you here. How many of you go as exam representatives for NPTEL exams? So you see a show of hands, it's fantastic to see. Thanks a lot for your help and I hope that is okay with you and your college and your administration and everything. We don't want any unpleasantness here. Of course we ask for consent from everybody but I think it's good. I think many of your students are writing and this is for credit transfer. I don't see any conflict or anything here. I think it's good for everybody but still I think if there are any issues with you personally going, you think we should do something differently, please let me know. We'll be happy to address that. The number of cities has been growing, number of centers has been growing, number of IRs have also been growing and without your help, it'll be really hard for us to conduct exams. It's very nice to see help from everybody. We are now doing exams outside the country. So there is remote proctored exams for really far away countries where we can't find centers but in the Gulf, for instance, there's interest increasing. We are seeing a little bit of interest in Sri Lanka. We are trying to Ghana, okay? That's also a bit of interest. So the number is slowly increasing. Let's see how far the international numbers go. So top 20 exam cities. You can see Tamil Nadu is like way ahead. Coimbatore is a huge increase and that's a big challenge for us. I think how many of you here from Coimbatore area? That Salem Coimbatore, it's very hard. I know your students have to travel way outside of Coimbatore sometimes and 26,000 is huge. There's no way we can find people. And last time, I think we ended up using a very new college center. There was a difficulty there with people and we had to apologize to them and I think that ended up being difficult but we are quite helpless. I'll be frank with you here. The numbers hit these kind of numbers. We struggle to find centers. It's very hard and one of the things we are thinking about very seriously for the next semester is increasing the number of exam days. It looks like we have no alternative, particularly for colleges which are coming in a large way. I think there's some colleges in Trichy. For instance, 1,500 students come and write exams. So I think when such large numbers come in, we're gonna talk to the college and ask them for a during the week exam. So it's very hard for us to find a comfortable center for you. I think last time, I think the exam part was saying the Trichy students can go to Terminal Valley and write exams. That's what they were saying. I couldn't, I didn't know what to say. So we were having this difficulty. So I think if a large number of students, I mean, 1,000 of that order from your college are writing exams, please get in touch with Kamala or Bhatti and then we'll see if we can work out extended exam days so that it's comfortable for your students to also write and for us also to find centers. So yeah, a few cities at least, these kind of big cities, smaller numbers, okay. I think even Trichy is a problem, right? So when it goes to beyond a certain number, we don't have just, there's no enough centers in these places for us to do these exams. Please work with us on this. We will write to your college administration for leave, et cetera, if they are writing an exam of this nature. So a few cities, we will have to do it in the next semester. Okay, so live sessions are slowly becoming Yeah, so these are live sessions conducted by faculty. We want to make this a little bit more interesting, a little bit more meaningful. We've seen traditionally that it's difficult to conduct live sessions well. Okay, so even if there are thousands of people in the course, not everybody comes in and the people who come in seem to have a good time. You know, when they interact with the faculty, it's very nice and some of the live sessions go on and on for like hours and people enjoy it but still I don't think we have really figured out how best to do it. Some faculty do it. You can see thousands of courses, but about 436 is the total live sessions that we ever hold, right? Should we do it more seriously? Now there is an opportunity. The opportunity is there are research students here on campus and IITM and various other IITs and other institutes. These are called Prime Minister's Research Fellows. I don't know if you've heard about it. PMRF, it's a scheme. There's the next slide. Good. Okay, so this is the one. So it's a scheme by which people can join institutes like IITs and other top institutes in the country as PhD students. In fact, they get paid a lot of money. The stipend is much higher than what a typical PhD student in IITM gets, but they are required to teach outside of the institute. They are required by the scheme itself to teach outside of the institute. So this is a requirement that the government has put in for these scholars. Now this can be them teaching in another college nearby. They could go physically to a college nearby and teach, but that somehow did not work out very well for the students, particularly during COVID, but also even otherwise, I think many institutes found it hard to find a college nearby that they can go reasonably to teach and come back. But those who can do that continue to do that, but some of the PMRF scholars, PhD students as we call them, are now doing their teaching job through NPTEL. So they are offering live sessions for NPTEL courses. And this is being scheduled in many courses and it happens every week. And what they do is they are solving problems that are in the assignments or not exactly in the assignments, but close to what is in the assignments, am I right? From the previous term, whatever. So what do you expect in the assignments? So one of the things we thought would be useful for students is to see someone solve assignment problems in detail with them live. So in a live session, these PhD students of IIT Madras and various other IITs solve problems in the assignments. Now we did it as a pilot in the last term. It worked okay, I think. We have not looked very closely at the numbers, et cetera, but this time more than 500, I think 540 or so, 540 students are going to be doing live sessions in courses in NPTEL courses, okay? So this is something that we want to do a better job of. Get some feedback from you on what's working, what's not working and see if we can do this better. If there's something else that we can do here, that also is something we can work out. Like for instance, yeah, yeah, yeah. So for instance, if there is one course for which there is a PMRF scholar in IIT Madras and if students near some colleges they can come together somewhere, we can even have this student go there and physically do a class, it's possible. But this has to work out in so many ways, right? First of all, that student has to be somewhere near you and you also have to be able to justify that the number of students who are there is enough. It cannot be like two, three students. It has to be at least some 50, 100 type students and we can work out even a physical class, okay? So I think we want to think of how to make this better if you have any ideas you can share with us also. So we did several sessions and this number is going to go through a huge increase. The only like more than 500 courses are going to have this kind of live interaction. Okay, so I think I'll stop here. I hope this gives you a glimpse of what happened in the previous term and some of the points I highlighted. Let's discuss a little bit more. Those are issues that we should address. Thank you very much for listening to me. Thank you once again for coming here. We'll keep talking. Yeah, so I think Professor Mangal said you had to leave a bit early. So I'm going to ask him to now come. Please, you have to come sir, there's no option. Please come. So Professor Mangal, as you know, many of how many of you have seen him? No, many have seen him. Good, great, see, famous. So he's the one who recruited me into NPTEL, okay? So he started the whole thing when nothing was there. I don't know if you've heard this parlance in management and all that. Going from zero to even 0.0001 is a big non-trivial increase. After you've gone from zero to non-zero, you can increase very easily. It's not, it's very well known. But starting something from zero is very, very non-trivial. And he's one person whom we can credit with for having started NPTEL from zero. So I think that's a very non-trivial thing. So let's hear what he has to say. Thank you. Thank you, Andrew, thank you very much. The nice thing is that we had Andrew and we had Pradap. You have to find such people in your system to ensure that these things happen. Now we have a third generation. I would say if Professor Anant was here, actually we would have been four generations of NPTEL coordinators because Professor Anant recruited me first to NPTEL in the ministry of, at that time it was called the Ministry of HRD. First of all, I wanna thank Bharati and all of you and faculty, colleagues and my dear NPTEL team for the wonderful workshop and for the invitation. I did not intend to speak. I just wanted to drop in and sit in the corner to see that I'm still alive to see what is happening, what we all began about 23, 24 years ago. I'll take about five minutes. Yeah, so it's in the very same hall, 1998, about 25 first year BITAC students joined with me and supported them by the director at the time, Professor Natarajan, who later became the AACT chairman and also then the deputy director, Professor Muthukrishnan, they sanctioned me a project called the AIT Madras Courses on the web. This was 1998 and the volunteers and the people who would develop the course contents with me were about some 10 or 20 faculty members from AIT Madras and 25 first year BITAC students who had seen an online version of Chemistry 101, which I was running for about 300 students using what was known as the WebCT at the time, which was the first ALMS learning management system that was developed commercially and then Blackboard and other things came. So from that to NPTEL and today to MOOCs, the journey I have seen all along, I have not been very active in the last four, five years, but that's because everybody else around me is very active, so I really need to learn from them how to pick up things. And my own course, I don't say, is the most popular course. The Chemistry course on atomic structure and the chemical bonding. Many people complain that it's a very difficult course and I have no qualms about making, I mean, I don't want to make it any easier than what I think it easy, it is already easy. I think it's important for you to learn. Therefore, I think the project is doing what the project should be doing as a program. Now it has become a national program. When we started, we had only five letters, N, P, T, E, L. We didn't know anything else about it. And Professor Paul Goodman, who was then the Carnegie Mellon Management Faculty and who had published a book on TEL, Technology Enhanced Learning, with some of the top notch experts in the world at the time, was our sort of an internal advisor and was my mentor for many years. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2013. He and everybody else has been teaching me what TEL is all about. It's like this, you go and say, I want to do this and then there are suddenly so many other people decide and say, no, no, no, you should not do it this way, we should all do it this way, and so on. And when the team started, I was the youngest, maybe in this audience I may be the oldest, but I may be among the older people. When NPTEL's team started, I was the youngest coordinator. Everybody else around me was an older professor and therefore the infinite amount of learning that I could get from, very large amount of learning I could get from all of them, was something that kept me going and I'm very happy to speak to all of you and wish you well. Please take this up as a challenge. We did not intend NPTEL to substitute the actual learning during COVID, even though it happened in many colleges, that was not the original intention, but it has helped you and it is up to you to make this project your own home project, your own project to build teaching and learning in this country, and I wish you all the very best and I want to thank Professor M.S. Anand who was the former director of IIT Madras. NPTEL is his brainchild, and myself and Professor Kushal Sen at IIT Delhi were the two national coordinators appointed by the ministry at the time. The offer has not been withdrawn, but I assume that I had surrendered it in 2015 to you. I'm very happy to see all of you. Please encourage more students to learn and learn well. It's not enough that they study or they read or they do the exams, but they should learn well and they should ask questions and in live sessions, please ask them to express their whatever difficulties that they have asked them to join. Live sessions are very important and I hope that this project, I would continue to be around to see that instead of the 25 lakh students that we have, every student in this country eventually registers to one or the other course in NPTEL. I hope it happens and I hope to live to see through that day. Thank you very much. I wish you all the very best. Thank you. Thank you, Professor Mangal. So I think we'll skip a few slides. The next section actually we put local chapters, but I think we'll come to that a bit later. So what we can do is, I now invite Professor Ramakrishna to present on the NPTEL initiatives that we have currently and we can take it on from there. Yeah, so we'll go through the initiatives that we have and after that we can have the interaction because once we do this, I think all of you will get an idea of what we are planning for in the upcoming year and based on that, you can also give us feedback suggestions. I think this will open up the floor for better discussions than going through the local chapter. That we'll do after this. Okay, good morning everybody. My name is Ramakrishna. I'm a faculty here at the electrical department and also NPTEL coordinator over the past nine or 10 months. Okay, so I'll be presenting a little more of the newer initiatives at NPTEL. So the growth is not just in numbers and courses, but also the spectrum of services, but the courses or workshops that we offer and also make things a little easily accessible for different kinds of audience because it's not just that there are people who just come for career transfer. There could be people who may want to do a couple of courses very quickly in summer just to prepare for campus placements or somebody from the industry who may not have the appetite to sit through 12 weeks of assignments and all. So one of the initiatives we launched recently about six months ago is this thing called the NPTEL plus. So it's the URL is here e-learn.NPTEL.EC.in. So the nice thing here is that courses are now offered in the self-paced mode. So not all courses, but there are a good amount of courses about 150 to 200 which are already in that framework. So essentially these are the more popular courses, more job-oriented courses and so on where people can just log in and finish the entire course in a week's time or maybe you can essentially binge watch all the videos so that we can finish the assignments and say, look, I'm ready for a certification and the certification will be in an online proctored mode. We also have a provision of short-term or long-term programs, live and blended courses like workshops which could be in a hybrid mode. So any one of the NPTEL institutes or industry, they want to offer a short-term workshop on some say hands-on session on some say FPGA or things like that. So all these things are offered over here. You can just go through this website of e-learn.NPTEL.EC.in and there's also the regular MOOCs courses which are on offer in a self-paced courses. Much of the IIT Center for Continuing Education programs are also offered here both in a purely online or even a hybrid mode. So at the moment we have say 149 courses which are offered in the self-paced mode. So the data points are good so this is still very new and the courses are being transferred into the self-paced mode. So we have a total enrollment of 601 across all courses and how many people, okay, so 63 attending the exam. I don't have the past percentage here, right? 46, okay, our certificate eligible is okay. So and then there are people, okay, there's still people coming up for the exam but this is not maybe well-known so far so I thought this is a good platform to tell you a little bit about the new initiatives. So then there are also a second initiative where we have in-person lab certification courses. So there are a bunch of courses that are on offer here starting from mechanical design, courses in chemistry, all the way till biology and even design thinking. So this is also something very new. So again, a little enhancement or from the usual MOOCs platform. So there are NPTEL lab workshops. There are also this NPTEL plus workshop which as I said, the idea would be to cater to a large set of or a wider set of audience coming from industry, faculties and so on. So this could be either both online, in-person or hybrid mode these are offered throughout the year and these are any, so duration could be any like a half a day workshop on say, training kids on TensorFlow till a one week workshop on say, a full-fledged program on say, machine learning or anything like that. And of course these are, there will be lots of live interactions in this again which is a little more features than the existing NPTEL MOOCs platform. So we have had a bunch of workshops already. So with a good amount of participants and if you see 2022, we had few in-person workshops at Bombay, ICER and Kharagpur. Okay, let's skip through the statistics. We have just numbers, right? So it's just to give you an idea of, yeah, so as I said, so these are a few workshops which we are partnering with industry. So one, I think which really is going well is a workshop by Neelit and ARM where they have a bunch of programs on offer through their virtual labs, especially training learners on various FPGA tools, very log, embedded C, ARM and so on. And we have, we started off with a small number of keeping the registration capital 160, but these have been all the time over subscribed. So we have already run three batches and I think, so more on these, more programs of this kind will be offered. So we're also having interest from, say companies like Ansys, which put up courses on NPTEL plus, which are targeted to, so maybe audience who have a bit of exposure on CFD, just to teach them a bit of computational tools and then so on. So we are also now having in the regular MOOCs platform where industry is offering some kind of supplementary material like say IBM or Google would say, maybe you have this set of lectures, can you just add on to those, to the existing ones? We are also in a process of co-offering courses with Ansys where in addition to the regular lectures, you are taught about the existing computational tools which are useful for the course. We already collaborate with MATLAB and everybody who have taken a course would know that MATLAB offers free services for us, but there are more and more companies like that who are willing to collaborate with us. Okay, same thing we are enabling certifications and this of course, there's some details that are still coming up and the modalities will be shared by our team who handles the local chapters here. The third initiative that we have an MOU with AICT for NPTEL courses as FTP. And this has been around for a while, right? So, this is also something which is going quite well. And of course, the certificates, they all, the texture all looks the same, maybe it's slightly different than the, yeah, okay. So the signatures change, everything else seems the same. Okay, so you have certain criteria for the FTP certificate. So you have, so this are again just some numbers which are easy to follow. So about, so it should be 12 hours, 24, 36 hours of engagement which we usually do even in our standard MOOCs course. So we have in the July to December we have about 517 FTP courses. In the January semester we had 491 and so on. And there was, this number is pretty, pretty good. So we have 20,000 people who applied for FTP in the January, recently concluded semester. Ah, okay, how you can find out it's, okay, this is, yeah, so this is, okay, this is new to me also. So you can find out which course is allowed to be an FTP course is, okay. So you will see in the summary page that this is actually a FTP course. Okay, now these are initiatives which have been around and more initiatives being added is the possibility of having internships for toppers. So we coordinate with the faculty if he or she wants to take up an intern. So who is essentially the topper of the course. So we have a mechanism where NPTEL funds the entire stay and like, stipend of 5,000 per four weeks of internship. This is good because for me also, it's nice because I get to interact with my course topper. Like I was teaching a course on linear systems. So the course topper happens to be my PhD student now and he's also one of the PMRF fellows whom you might see in live sessions. So it's really nice to that this initiative helps even us to get better students for our higher level masters or PhD programs. So of course there's a little process of we send the resumes to the course instructors. They shortlist maybe there'll be a quick interview and then so on. Okay, so the numbers are good. So of course kind of COVID was a dampener. So most of the time we would get them in campus. So now we have about, so all these are online internships. So numbers look small, but I think since the initiative started and it was the message was spread. So we had this dampener. And I hope from the next summer onwards things will be a little, the numbers will look much, much promising. Okay, so the another thing with how we associate with our industrial partner. So I think when I was just walking in at 9.15 I thought I was already late because Bharti already started presenting something. So there's something going about soft skills and also there are some industries which train the learners on soft skills. I think it was capture many or something. And then of course you have industries which give CSR funding for examinations, for a special set of people. Then of course industries also said also co-offer courses. They are very active in offering internships. A good amount of things also happens in the recruitment from NPTEL courses. And of course industry people come to us for upskilling and reskilling of their employers. Okay, so the numbers are big. So we have MOUs with 70 companies from government, private, PPPs and so on. And eight MOUs signed in the last five months. So there is the, so as the numbers grow in the number of enrollments you see the other participation also grows from support from industry and so on. So there are people as I said who have got jobs through our partners, a bunch of recruiters here from capture many to L and T defense and so on. And you see, it's across the spectrum not just traditional IT companies. So we also had started during the COVID times some NPTEL lecture series. I think we had about 170 live lectures. I think a couple of them every week from experts from all over industry, academia, policy makers and so on. So that was not just talking of technical content but in general about technologies and career opportunities, what does the industry look forward and so on. And that was kind of very, very well received during our COVID times. So our CSR support partners are six partners here. So they support exam fee waiver for, so these are good numbers. So about 120,000 people got a total free waiver via this CSR partnership. And we also have, as I said, soft skills training to NPTEL learners and we have close to 2,300 people who have been trained under this program. So we have, okay, these are some numbers. I'll just skip this. These are the, okay. So this is, oh, this is new for people new, okay. But new for me also in a way. This you do support for SPOCs, attending conferences. Yeah, okay. Okay, so this is about, okay. This also maybe, don't get the same. Okay, so there's a bunch of things here on discipline. Okay, so another thing which we are working on and something we started during the COVID times is the NPTEL portal, NPTEL gate portal. So during the live sessions when we used to conduct the, there's a pointed technical questions would be less but people would ask, can we do more problems and that kind of got addressed via the PMRF online sessions where, so the regular platform maybe doesn't really allow us to maybe post a lot of problems and so on. But through this PMRF we can now interact with them a little more regularly. So that is one thing and they also would ask, okay, is this enough for gate or how do we prepare for gate? What are tips and tools? So what we thought is, okay, we have this little sponsorship from this company called Amidus where we have, so we have a very large content of all courses across all disciplines. So can we make a little, you know, some kind of a gate crash course kind of stuff or a gate course where you just log into that portal and you see all the gate relevant material there. So of course, I mean everybody knows what is a gate exam, how many people take the exam and so on. So a couple of features that what we have already implemented is, can I link the entire gate syllabus to the existing NPTEL content? Say I go to say some topic on metallurgy, I just click on that and it just lands me on the appropriate video. Another feature that we have here is we have video solutions to previous 10 years gate questions. What currently we have material or video solutions and syllabus mapping for these courses, what is upcoming soon is we'll have what I said as a gate cluster course, you can just log in, it'll just, the entire gate EE or EC will appear as NPTEL MOOCs courses with different subjects, say signal systems, networks, analog circuits and so on. And each of those subjects will have its own set of assignments which you can keep taking randomly. And once you're ready, you can take a practice test and of course you'll get some feedback on that of which subject to improve, which subject you're doing good and so on. And of course via the PMRF, you know, we can possibly have this online mentoring and discussion forum. Some of the PMRF will also in addition to providing live sessions for the regular courses, we'll also participate in mentoring the gate students. So we are also getting a little more subjects, especially mathematics, physics, instrumentation and so on. So one of the complaints when we launched this portal was about, so EE, EC, you know, there are several other platforms which offer this. So what about, you know, courses like chemistry or metallurgy and so on. So we are slowly, slowly getting there. So I think that from June, you will see a lot of initiatives on this. So the portal is just called gate.nptel.ac.in and you can see it's kind of very pretty interactive. So I'll let Professor Patap take up. Translations. Good morning. So I think we have quite a full house here. I believe there's a shortage of seats. I apologize for that. So we do have a translation, active translation activity that has been on for a while now. And you can see here more than 222 courses have been translated into various languages. So this was started mainly because we wanted to ensure that more people can utilize this, utilize the NPTEL content. And also to, you know, particularly when they're coming from various schools where they have learned in their native language, they may have more difficulty settling it, settling into education in English. We find that here also in the IIT campus also, we have some of the undergraduate students who come here first year. They find it very difficult because they're learning a lot of new content plus they're learning it in English, which is not how they learned it in their school. So it helps for them to see this. The basic courses in their mother tongue so that they can at least, you know, it becomes easier for them to slowly start learning in English. So we have a process by which you can apply for being a translator as well as a quality checker. So we have multiple things that we have done. I mean, the process has evolved as you can expect with the most things in NPTEL. So we do count on you, the faculty of various institutions here to help us with this process. The idea is that you are also an expert in your domain plus you also understand your native language very well. And so that's the best combination we can find. There are many commercial entities who do this translation activity, but they are mostly focused on entertainment industry. So the kind of translation they would provide for technical content is not very satisfactory. So they will do something, in principle it is done, but it is not good enough. Similarly, a lot of effort has gone into creating the automated language translation processes. So even here in campus, we have faculty who work on it. Of course, Google has Google Translate is there, which so you can just feed anything to it and it'll do some translation. So all of that is there. But what we find is for technical content, they are still not good enough. They are still quite some distance away. There's a lot of issues with respect to technical terms that are used. And also the fact that our classes are not scripted. So there are places where you can do very good translation if it is scripted. Our classes are not scripted. So it is very conversational. Whatever we say is what is there in the class. So it is not so easy to do it. So we have a process through which you can apply to be a translator, you can be the quality checker. The quality checker is somebody who has done some work with us before. And it's available in the form of PDFs that we have. So PDF of the lecture in the native language is available. This is available for download, of course. And some in many cases, we have converted that to books. You can see there are 743 of those available. And we also have these SRT files, VTT files which will play below the lecture. So either as a subtitle or it will play below the video as a block. So you can follow. The block is much more convenient because you can kind of keep track of where you are in that lecture. Sometimes in our native language because of the sentence structure, the exact current sentence translation may not be what is relevant to us. The immediate preceding sentence, immediate next sentence might help us understand that content better. So therefore we have that system where one block of text goes below. We prefer that also because then it doesn't hide anything from the video. So when we recorded the video, we didn't really plan for a subtitle. And sometimes one English sentence may end up as like two or three lines of sentence in Tamil or Telugu or Palyalam or whatever. So it will block up a fair chunk of the screen. And so you can't really see if the faculty has written something on the board or they're showing some slide. Part of the slide is hidden. And you lose that, I mean it becomes difficult. You're now searching through that text to understand what is going on. So all that is taken care of. More recently we have also started having this put out in the form of audio. So right now we find the best way to do the translation is to actually first do the audio translation. And then from that do the, create the text. So actually our current system is we ask the, and it's even easier. So this means if you wish to volunteer, you don't have to learn how to type in Malayalam or Kannada or any other language. You don't have to learn how to type in that language. You should know how to speak in that language. That's really all that is required. So your speech to text is much easier. On Google Doc you can do that. You have to just, even on your phone you can do that. You just said that on the Google Doc you initiate this speech to text. So all we say is you look at the PDF in English. You see a sentence, rephrase it in your mind so that it makes sense to you to say that in your language that you're speaking and you just speak that sentence. That's all. You just speak that sentence. The sentence by sentence you just speak. You speak like you would be teaching that subject in your language. That's all you do. So you can even read like two sentences if it turns out that sentence was half a sentence for some whatever reason and it doesn't make sense. You'll read that in the next one or two sentences. Make something that makes sense in your mind to say and then you say it in your native language. Then that text will come. You'll see that text show up correctly. So then it is, this really removes a lot of problems because when you do sentence by sentence otherwise, you can have sentences in your native language which don't make complete sense. And or they are not really in any coherent sequence with respect to the previous sentence and the next sentence. But when you do it like this, when you rephrase it in your mind and say it, it comes out very smoothly. So this process we have put together. You can see here overall status, huge number of courses. You can see across languages, of course Hindi you have a lot. We have 179 courses that have been translated. I think Tamil also we have a lot, 151. So totally we have over 700 courses that have been translated at least into one language. Okay, so at least one language. We started off with a target of eight languages. So these are the eight languages that we initially targeted. We've been, the government asked us to add three more languages. So I mean, we were ready to do all languages. It's more a question about finding people who would help us in this process. So we have no real restriction from our side. In fact, if you find, I mean, we have many more languages, at least another half a dozen languages more we can attempt, but we had to find the people both for doing the translation and also hopefully an audience that needs it. So we have traditionally gone with the languages where we seem to have a larger learning community at this point. So that's really all we have done. You can see a large number of courses, large number of hours where it has been translated. You can see more than nearly 17,000 hours, 16,500 hours of translated content has been completed. This is available for you to download and use as is. And this is ongoing. So this is a very active process. And we really seek your assistance in this to do this in a very proper way. We have an entire team that does this translation. And of course, we... Yeah, for every activity here, of course, as part of this activity, there is an honorarium associated with it. Exact amounts, I think maybe Barthi would be able to show. I don't know if it is there in a slide here. No, I don't have it, I don't think. But there is an honorarium that is, I mean, the people who work with us. So you can see here, the number of people working with us on this translation process, you can see it's a fairly large number. And they are all quite happy with the kind of honorarium that is being provided. And so this is a very good activity to participate in. Like you say, it uses all your strengths, your language knowledge, your domain knowledge. And this is something you can do at your free time. I mean, you can come home and whenever you're free, you can spend one hour on it. Progressively, it adds up. It adds up to something very useful. Only thing is we do expect that when you sign up, you stay on the task because we have now assigned a course to you. And so that course is now blocked. So we have assigned a course to you in whatever, you know, if you're doing it in Punjabi or Telugu or whatever, so that course is now blocked in Telugu. We are not assigning it to somebody else. So it is now sitting with you. So we need it completed from you for us to put it on the site. So once you commit, we do ask that you stay on the commitment. And like I say, it's a steady piece of work. So it is not like, you know, we are not giving you the entire 40 hours and expecting it back within a few days. You can steadily work on this. So even if through a semester you complete it, it is very nice. Through a semester you complete, and that's very doable. You can do one hour a day or something like that. You can definitely do the translation and you get something for that. Quality checkers are people who have been with us doing this translation enough number of times and have done a very good job. So then we, so when you submit it, it has to go through the quality checker. So the quality checker has to satisfy himself or herself that what you have submitted is good quality. If it is not good quality, it is sent back. It is sent back to the person who has worked on it. So we do occasionally have people who, even though we have told them not to just, you know, do a Google translate and hand it back to us, occasionally we do have people who send it to us. And our quality checkers do catch it, send it back and say, this is not acceptable, you have to do it the right way. So this is some of what we have. These are sample books created from English transcripts into other languages. These are all, you know, you can download any of these. They are available under that, at that site nptel.ac.in translation. We have one table so you can see in one or more languages, you can see across, so civil engineering has 20 courses that are translated, capital sciences 35, 36. So first of all, this is there. So I think one of the things that we would like to do is to inform you about this. You may already be aware, but all the more draw your attention to it so that if you have students in your college who have, who face some difficulty learning, this is a, you know, this is available. They can use it as they see fit. It is available to help them. Not just for the nptel course, for any other subject that they're learning, if they want to understand a concept, this may be a good place to look at it. That's all I want to share. Thank you. Thank you, Professor Pratap, for that clear explanation on the language translation part. I just want to round up a few things that I thought we might want to emphasize about the initiatives. So yes, one is the self-paced course portal that we have started. These courses are available. Currently there is a payment for enrolling to a course in a self-paced mode itself to access the contents because we are giving you assignments you can do again and again, and then separately you can register for the exam. We are also evolving policies for local chapters on if students have registered to swim exams, but they have not passed it or they are absent. In that case, how do we facilitate something for them that policy is yet to be finalized? We'll let you know once it is done. But there are certain colleges who are approaching us for support and we are doing it on a one-on-one for now, but we'll come out with a policy on how local chapters can access this. If the students have completed the course, say the assignments and all on Swyam, then what can we do for them through this portal? So that is on this. The in-person lab courses, lab workshops that we have, like I was saying before, a lot of workshops are opening up. We are opening registrations. They are happening at ISA Bhopal, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay and various other institutes. Online too, we have a lot of workshops going on. So we are sending out posters, we are sending out emailers to all the local chapters. I hope you are receiving all of it. Please circulate it amongst your students so that they can get the hands-on experiences or whatever we do. For instance, Ansys did about five sessions on their various tools that can be used and there is a free license for students also that they can download and use those tools. So some things like that might be useful when they go in for recruitment interviews and so on. So please do follow when we send out information on workshops and see whether it's relevant to your students. You can do that definitely. That's about the workshops. Microsoft certifications, I want to emphasize here that we have been working with the Microsoft team on enabling certifications for free, for all students. So there is a lot of courses that Microsoft offers in various areas. It is in programming areas, data science areas. They have some grouping of courses and all that. Microsoft just last week, about two, three days ago, we finalized that we will give it for free for the students of local chapters under NPTEL. There is going to be a modality and a procedure that we are going to do as part of this. We will let you know on that. And they also have a project component. So that is something where we said normally only if you do a bookie of courses you get to the project component. So there we are trying to negotiate with them that domain scholars and maybe some of the stars we will try to identify who have already done a bunch of courses with us can directly bypass that, go to the project component, do it. And that project component, I think there is visibility to industries who want to recruit and so on. So we want to put some of our scholars there. So this is something that we are doing with Microsoft on the side. On the same front, we are also in talks with Google certification too. So that should also be coming up in the coming months. We'll keep you posted on this again. This is all free. Normally the Microsoft courses are about three to 4,000 per course for the certification but they are giving it to us for free. If your college has a partnership already you're doing it no problems. But if it's not there you can use the NPTEL route to kind of go through for Microsoft certifications on this. So please watch out for notifications on this. Also from us it will be a very, very useful add-on for your students. If they are doing say some programming courses with us and maybe doing some add-on from them the resume definitely does get stronger for the students. We just heard as we were messaging JK was telling me we just got a message that for faculty members and educators also they might be coming out with a plan that we can pass on and there'll be something for y'all. I don't have the full details but we'll also share it with you as soon as we get the details. So that is this FDP. This is the certificate. The constant question again we still don't have an answer what about teachers who don't come onto the AICT scheme and UGC scheme. I hope y'all have an answer by now but this is the MOU we have drawn up with AICT and every semester we send them data on how many faculty have completed the complete list of faculty members who have taken FDP certificates from us, the details of the courses and all that. We do send out to AICT. The MOU is still live and valid with us. So this is an additional certificate that faculty members belonging to AICT colleges can pick up from us. After they complete the regular NPTEL course in the usual manner. So faculty also have to submit assignments, you have to register to the exam, come to the exam you pass it and then you get an additional FDP certificate once you do it for the FDP enabled courses. So this is the process that we follow. You get two certificates and one of the constant questions or confusions that comes is the minute we put FDP course is it only for faculty? No, this is for all students, any learner who wants to learn from this course. Faculty in these courses who belong to the AICT scheme can get an additional certificate. So your students can do all these courses also. These courses are not like what knitter offers for teachers or something like that. These are open courses to any learner. We are just enabled some additional certifications for faculty here. So this is the thing. This table is a four week course is equivalent to half FDP of one week. So if you'll know the conversion metrics is the conversion that they have given us from AICT. Eight week NPTEL course is equivalent to a full FDP of one week and a 12 week NPTEL course is equivalent to one and a half FDP of one and a half times than FDP course. So this is the conversion when you're going for your career points or when you're showing it. This is the equivalence that will come in at that point. So that is on that internships for topers. Yes, I think we want to scale it up to at least 200, 300 per semester. We'll work with more, you know, we'll try to, I think we are still struggling with the way the process works. So we'll probably work on simplifying that better. But alert your topper students in your college to say there is such an opportunity and they should be utilizing it. It's a very nice thing that they can come to any of the, you know, IITs, ISU, any of the ISERS wherever they have taken the course from. If they are a topper, it might be really good if they can capitalize on this apply because we do send out mails to the toppers and say please send us your resume, please apply for the internship and sometimes they just don't even respond, you know. So it might be good for you to also alert them that now that you're a topper, you know, look out for this opportunity, you might want to use it. So this is on the internship. The industry associate, we have a lot of partners, like I said, they are also giving us requirements for people from the NPTEL pool that they want to hire. We are passing on resumes, so we do have a resume database. I don't know, Balraj was here, I can't see him here, but we do have a resume database that we are maintaining of NPTEL learners. Ask your students to kindly fill up that resume database with us because we take out only from that policy in NPTEL when they register, we do not know the 10 standard information, 12 standard information, what degree, what CGPA, we have no such information. But when a company asks us for a requirement, they'll say 10 standard, I want so much, I want only CS, I want CGPA more than that, and then we have to give them profile. So for that, we need also data, more data on the students. So please ask your students to fill up the resume database so that we can send out more profiles to these companies who are coming to us with requirements. So that is one thing. The other thing is fee waiver support. This time we got a huge number of requests, we are on 12,000 plus requests, I think for the JAN semester, we really have to scale up our CSR part, I think we are running out of money, we have to really work on NPTEL CSR this time, but 12,000 is the request that we have gotten. This time we'll do it for the JAN semester, definitely, July we'll have to look out for money requirements for NPTEL, so that's something that's happening. Soft skill training, I want to spend just two minutes on this. This is something that we are doing from our side for local chapter colleges that do not have any in-house training or soft skill training for your students. If you have a very good placement and training center that does this already for your students, there's no need to utilize the service, but if there are colleges where this is not happening, please reach out to us. This is a completely free initiative from our side, we are not charging anything for this. We only want time commitment and attendance from the students, active participation from them, completion of the workshop properly. So it is a seven-day or a 14-day training that we are providing. The choice is up to you whether you want seven days or 14 days. There is a fixed schedule, what all activities we will do during that. There is also a homework component to every day that the student has to do based on whatever session happened that day. So there are interactive sessions, there are group discussions that happen one-on-one, mock interviews that happen, every student gets feedback on what they have to work on, what they have to improve, how they are presenting their resume and so on. So I think it is really important that you put your students through this if you do not have this actively happening within your college. My associate Geeta has been reaching out to all the colleges here. We've been sending mails regularly. We can scale up to even 50 colleges per month or even 70 colleges per month. We are currently doing about 20 or 30, I think which is quite less. We would like to do more. So please contact us if you're interested. We can do batch after batch of training for your students. So this is something we'd like to do. There's an employability test also that we are doing for the students to see how they will attempt, say aptitude and logic kind of tests and this is what we are doing. 90 colleges have so far completed the training with us. I would really urge that your current final year students, please put them through this particular training program. I think it would be useful for them. Yeah, feedback from trainers. We've had very good feedback and they have found difference in students as they have moved through the program that is there. The learners also, a lot of them thank us for putting them through this program and they learned a lot of things which they have never ever heard of before or they've not been told. Even certain mannerisms and all when the soft skill trainers pointed out, they said, yes, I have to work on this and they have really thanked and some of them have even gotten jobs and they felt that this really boosted their confidence after the training program that they ran. Sparks too have given us good feedback. These are just samples of what we have. Rating wise, yes, the sessions are rated quite high from the student side. This is one more thing that we've started, digital skilling course. So initially in our team, in our office, we used to put all staff who come through, freshers who come through through a set of skills that they have to learn to be part of the office ecosystem. So basically how do you handle a Google doc? How do you handle a Google sheet? How do you handle emails? How do you do attachments on it? Bulk emailing, MS Word, MX Excel, PowerPoints, presentation, some image capture and all these which are like regular things we need when we onboard people and they have to work in the project. And then we were finding out that this is really useful probably to just put out as a course that students might want to learn. This is basic digital skills that anybody can acquire and just like we were talking to some of the Sparks here, some of them are new to a computer. They said some of them don't even use a computer. They were saying they don't know applications. This might be the first course you want your students to be in if they have never used a computer, they are fresh to it. They are kind of not very comfortable with it. It's a free course that we are giving to all local chapter students. You can enroll them here. There are exercise, there are videos, there are exercises they can do. And we do an exam for them post that passing which they get a certificate for it. So for local chapters, we are doing this free for the soft skill sessions, two of us undergone also, they are putting it as part of it. I think it's very useful to learn. At least they will know all the small applications when a company has, do you know what, do you know Excel? At least they will know that on a basic level that they have to know for working in an office. So this is a course. It's on elan.nptl.ac.in. Our office will also send out more reminders in the coming weeks. Please ask your students who are absolutely fresh to computers, absolutely fresh to any use of applications to go through this course. I think this will be a nice way to start off. Support for, just one minute sir, let me just two more minutes. Support for SPOCs for attending conferences every month, first to 10th, we open a form where you can apply to say that I'm gonna attend this conference, either you have a paper there, mostly only if you have a paper there, we are supporting. So you should give us some proofs and these conferences need to be in the IITs, NITs, Triplitis and some other institutes that we have identified, CFTS. CSIR labs, so there is a group of institutions. If the conference is in any of those, we are supporting SPOCs who have papers and attending those with travel and registration fee costs. So up to 25,000 is the support that we are extending from our site. You can apply, fill the form and then we will process it. We will check the details and we will approve. Once you've attended it, give us the bills and we will reimburse it for you. So we would urge lot more SPOCs to kindly use this initiative. We actually thought we are gonna run out of funds and there'll be so many, but it's not really come to that. We'd be really happy if we are stretched to a limit and we are gonna say, my God, there are so many applications we have to process and we'd be very happy to give it to a lot more people. So please do make use of this initiative. Every month, first to 10, the form will be open. You can apply through this particular scheme. Translation, Pratap Sir, I think gave all the details. The only detail is on the website, there is a form that you can apply to become a translator, okay? So this is some information you can take back to all faculty in your colleges. Whoever is interested in being a translator, ask them to apply. We have a process of, of course, short listing, vetting, and finalizing whether the work is satisfactory enough for us. We will do that, but we would really like to thank, again, all the local chapters who have helped us. Otherwise, that 16,000 hours you saw would have been impossible. We just cannot do it with any of the machine learning, you know, automated stuff and all. It gives really poor translations many a time. So it has been the local chapters that has helped us in this initiative that we have been able to do so much work thanks to all of those who have been participating, but this is not enough. We are just on 200 courses and NPTEL fuel languages. It's just a drop in what we have and what we have to translate. We'd like to update, definitely. So please apply. Please pass it on to faculty in your colleges. Ask them to apply and we'll take it forward from there. Yeah, so one thing in the book that we prepare, your names also come in. So the main faculty name comes in as, of course, the person who created the course, but the person who translates also, we say translated by and put the name of the faculty with the college in that book. So the good part about it is we are able to create books now say on electronic circuits or programming or something in Marathi in Gujarati. There is a book that you can actually read through with snapshots and kind of as a textbook equivalent in so many languages we are able to bring out. So this is on translation. I think Ramakrishna sir gave a lot of information, but we'll send out detailed emails to y'all on whatever needs to be done. And this is the revamped website. So just two features I'd like to highlight. One, we integrated all the logins. So we had like six, seven types of login on the portal. Go to this page, you please log in here for this. Go to that page login. Even for us, we had like six pages where we had to log in for different data. We unified all the logins into one in the new website. Of course, we cleaned it up and made it a bit saner in terms of color, like I was saying. Now we don't have 20 colors on the website. We probably have like three colors on the website. That's something we changed. And for every course, there is a tab called statistics. If you click on that, you can see the entire statistics of the course, how many times it has run, how many people enrolled, registered, passed. It might be a quick check for you to see whether your students want to take this course. How is the course performed in the past and all that before you actually get them enrolled and register for exams also. I think that's a good thing. Topos is also there. That's a good tab, I would say, to check out on which college students are top, you know, being topos in this course. Maybe reach out to that college, ask them for feedback. Also, that might be a good way that you want to start interacting. I think we'll stop here for now. This is, we are on 11 a.m. Should we break now for tea or 10 minutes, y'all want to start, 11.15? Shall we break for tea? Sir, you wanted something. Maybe we'll just do about two questions. We'll come, 11.15, we'll break for tea. We'll come back by maybe 11.30 or so, 11.30, 11.35. One hour we'll have interactions. At that point, we want to open the floor for all questions, discussions, suggestions, up to maybe 12.30, 12.45. Then we'll give the rundown on the local chapter interactions that we've been having. Maybe some insights. This is the part I like the most, which is about the interesting aspects of the learners and some things that we do with learners there so that we will do. And then we'll go in for the plug distribution at 1.30 today. So a little change in the program now. Yes, sir? For digital skill training program, only those who completed successfully the soft skill training program cannot attend or what, madam? No, no, currently we said that if they completed the soft skill training, digital skilling is also a good course to follow up on and complete so that you have like this part and that part. But we'll also open it out to all local chapter students, I think. Going forward, we'll just get that enabled. OK, madam. Whether there is any separate web portal for digital school program or you are going to give any link? So that SelfPacePortalElearn.NPTEL.AC.in, that has a course on it. So there, that's the, it's just like a Swayam your portal, right, where you enroll to a course and go in and see contents, put in assignments. Similarly, here you can just log in and you can see the videos and put in assignments. That's all. We have, students has to solve assignments. Yes, they have to do assignments. And there will be an exam. Nothing in NPTEL is without exam, sir. So there will be assignments and exams. Oh, OK, madam. And then regarding the conference sponsor. Yeah. Only the conference conducted by IIT, IACs are sponsored or other conferences. Yeah, so organized in some of these institutes, IITs, IAC, NITs are there. No, no, no. They have to be organized in some of these institutes. OK. Thank you. Maybe two more questions and we'll get the, can you check whether everything is ready there? These notes. Is there any criteria for selecting the students for soft skills course? Whether he has to do any NPTEL course previously or without doing that also, is eligible for doing it? OK. See, normally we did want to do it that students have done NPTEL courses go through the soft skill training. Because we know that they have gotten certified with us. And this is like an add-on so that they can attend interviews. But what we found was in many colleges, the NPTEL students who have done our exams are already so good they don't need a soft skill training. You know, so when we started going out, first we started with toppers, we started with elite and the goal students. None of them actually needed this. So then we were like, OK, who should we go to? So we started this then as a general privilege to local chapters. We will try to accommodate, we would prefer NPTEL certified students to be there definitely. But if it is not possible, we can also extend it to other students in the colleges. Depends on the volume that we'll have to handle. So 4,500 colleges depends on volume we get. We'll have to see preference will be for NPTEL certified students. So basically, if you have a student in your college who you think is academically good, but is not able to interview well, is not able to talk well, does not know how to do those things. And that's a good way to filter these students. So have something like that. If you have, you can identify a few like that. That would be OK. Thank you, sir. Yeah. This is public. This is not for good colleges which already have... Yeah, I know, but primarily this is aimed for colleges where maybe they don't have too much of soft skills training already built. So then, yeah, yeah, sure. We'll give it to you. We will give this slide to you. Madam, it is the overlapping of the exams. It is that it is the same day which is the overlapping of the exams. The student must be clear that it is the need to clear that it is the three courses. It is not possible that it is exam date. It is then October 28 or 29. So that it is a having to the no scope. For that, you need to complete that it is a domain certification. There it is a feeling the problem because the course it is not offered to that in the next run. It is taking to another year so that you can accommodate that it is one more extra day for such a type of the course. Anyway, you are planning to conduct that. It is the exam one more day, one more day so that you can give in that it is a leverage so that it will be the better. And also share that it is the best practices of that. It is a credit transfer. The problem it is a coming that it is the, we are encouraging to the courses of the NPTEL. We are having the Vignan University. We are giving to the nine credits. The problem is that it is the 80% of the students it is getting the nine credits. So what should we do that it is the remaining the 20%. So what we are the best in the academic council we are going that it is there. We are taking that it is those who scored that it is the greater than the 20 and it is the less than 29 and it is we are considering as the 50 masks as the internal and 50 masks it is there. An external exam we are conducting. Suppose you can share that it is there the best practices to us so that it is enabled because of the NEP we are trying to increase that it is a transfer of the credit. It is an option from the nine to that it is 33 credits for the credit transfer for the student to get that it is a main motto it is that for the domain certification. So there it is that we are thinking to that it's a fright to convince that it is an academic council. So what should you do that it is the if you are promoting this so if they are fail it is a larger number larger number. So that mechanism also we are working out it is the that checks and balances where it is the which semester it is that your practices can be the share. So then it is options of that it is the to re-take to the examination as it is there you are mentioning to that in the self-faceted course. Those things can help you thank you. Okay so I think the point is making is about 80% pass 20% are not passing in NPTEL courses and if you have to do more credits then more people will fail then there is a problem of how to deal with them. I see that you will work that out the exam dates are a much more difficult problem for us. So we do announce our dates I had of time we try convincing everybody that they should look at our calendar and then schedule exams but it's hard you know I mean universities also have a lot of demands on date and time they can only some window for exams so it's very hard that I think will not be able to solve that easily. So NPTEL plus is also started keeping that in mind. All these problems that we have of people failing not able to find time for the exam. So NPTEL plus is a way in which we can easily do it but it is costed I mean it's not free. So it's not because it's something that we ourselves are running so we don't get funding from the ministry for it. So it's costed it's not too much but there is a cost associated with that. So that it's always a trade-off you're not able to do the ideal easy thing. Exam dates is always going to be tough. We'll see what's the best we can do. I'll add on to this point and you said there is a problem for you to conduct or identifying the exam centers. The solution to that is having two dates for the exam you can use the same examination center for two times so that at least 50% you can able to solve those problems. So that's what we do. We do actually morning session and afternoon session every day. No, no completely different dates. Two different dates you can plan. See initially you are planning. You are conducting the exam. Not necessarily the same course can be conducted. Same course need not be done in two days but at least 50% of the course can be done in one day and 50% of the course so that you can utilize the local chapters, the facilities in a more effective way. Two times you can use the same facility. We are thinking of something like that, we'll see. That one more problem what I faced in our college around the 600, 700 students writing the exam and at least 25 different colleges this time and normally we send buses for the hostel students but 25 different colleges and we face only one or two or less than 10 is the various parts of Chennai. Chennai? Chennai. Chennai. Okay. I am from, see actually the last is 20% of the students are not able to go to the examination center. They just stop writing the exam. See this is the practical problem. See when we run a bus from the hostel, most of the hostel students are writing the, registering for NPTEL courses. Normally we send buses so that they will be comfortable in writing the exam. They need not worry about the travel. So that kind of a problem, right? If a particular college is allocated for two or three centers, it will be easier for us to plan. Yeah, I think it looks, it looks easy. So on the day, on the day when... I think it is. This is only a suggestion. Yeah, I understand, we are looking at it. We do take, so let me just respond to what he said. We do take all those things into account. But you have to understand that there is a, there is like some 20,000 people who have to write exams in Coimbatore. It over so many days and so many slots and each center has only so many people and it is a very complicated problem. If you take more inputs like, you know, which college the person is from where they have to go, it gets into a much bigger mess. It's very, very hard. We have some sort of an algorithm which runs and gives out allocation. It's a very nerve-wracking time. It's difficult for us to do. We'll try our best to incorporate. Yes. Okay, we are coming to tea time. We are going to come back after tea and then have much more discussions of this nature. We just started a little bit. So let's break for tea, we'll come back. So welcome back. Hope the samosa, pakoda, sweet was all okay. I was not happy with the coffee. I was again complaining about the coffee, but then yeah, that's the coffee they gave. Let's see, we'll start with the interaction questions. And yes, so we can start off, mics, where are the mics? Karthik, get somebody from the team, no? No people around here. Yeah, yeah, we want everybody here. More the merrier, yes. So we spoke, I spoke with a few people during the break. Some people came up and asked me some specific questions also. So this can be an open session, but try to keep your question short. There's a lot of people who want to ask a lot of questions. So try to keep your question as short as possible and then to the point. Yes, let's start. Sir, it's about resume building database. Yes, yes. So he had a question on how that resume submission works for toppers and all that. Balrajus here, yes. Is it only for toppers or can everybody in the local chapter can? Yeah, so he's the person. So let me introduce him Balrajus, the person who handles all these industry connect for NPTEL and maybe he can describe how that works. Yeah, so resume building, we promote to toppers predominantly, but other students also can fill the resume. Definitely it's possible. And we regularly share a Google form to fill the resume. And sometimes we don't get very good response from Fox. I'm happy you asked this question. Right now I just checked with the team. We are having totally cumulatively 30,000 resumes out of that only 10,000 active pool we have, which means which we can actually share to the companies. So we would be happy to get more resumes. Definitely others can also fill their resume, but when companies ask, they say only share 100 profiles, 200 profiles. We only share toppers profiles. So others also can fill. And this is not just for companies. We also use this for soft skill training. Anything else that we get in terms of information? How do you circulate that Google form for filling? You send it to the SPOC. SPOC, yes. All the SPOCs will get a form with which the students, which you can forward to the students. Yeah, in addition to this, when we get a job requirement, let us say there's active requirement currently going on with Capgemini. Every month they have a target. Through NPTEL they found a better conversion. So they feel that they want to recruit the NPTEL. So every month they will ask, can you give me more candidates? Sometimes they say, we want 300 girls students from all places across the country. We couldn't even give them that number. So I'm happy that you asked. So please fill the resume. The moment you resume is with us, in terms of students resumes, we actually... So it is circulated almost... So generally after the results of the exam, but whenever we get requirement also, we share with the students. So since we have asked this question, maybe from Monday itself, we'll start sharing the form once again for registration for everybody. If the link is used for every time, please give us a link, sir. Yes, yes, it's the same link, sir. We'll share with you. Yeah, we don't differentiate, sir, as long as alumni of NPTEL, we consider everybody, 2020, 2021, 2022. As companies come and ask, we share. Generally, if we don't have resume, also if company says I want 2021 batch, we circulate all the 2021 toppers of that particular subject and say, please fill the form. So in fact, I remembered people getting jobs with around 9 lakhs, 10 lakh packages from certain companies, not many, but some students definitely got jobs through NPTEL with high salaries, which we can add. Yes, we'll do that. Yes, definitely, definitely. We'll add it. In fact, we have a page for soft skills training in the same page, we'll update this. Recommended courses, for cap Germany, they're asking people, the recommended courses, these courses are needed for, that is very important because the students are very... So generally, I'll say what IT companies would look for is, you can look at courses from the domains. If you go look at computer science, there is a programming domain, right? And that has some six courses, three course for electors, many courses are listed there. If you want IT company jobs, I think programming domain is the first place to start. Yeah, data science domain is also there. So those are all very hot areas. Yeah, Java and Python is most common. Python, one more question, sir. Most probably we are a SyLab, like open source software, SyLab, but we are not conducting any such kind of courses for SyLab, that is very important. There is MATLAB-based thing, but both of them are similar structure and syntax and all that, right? Sir, because many students are very lag with their lab, like software simulation tools, that's very important. Yeah, so you can take a course which is using MATLAB and your students can use SyLab. I think most of the courses, in fact, in courses where we use MATLAB, most of the instructors will say, you can do the same in SyLab also. Thank you, sir. Sir, yes. Sir, I am Dr. K. Vijayakumar, spoke of Shanmugai Industries, Arthinjayskali Thiruvannamalai. Sir, every semester, our students registered nearly 300 students registered. And nowadays, we are under Thiruvannamalai University, Chvilur. Nowadays, they send one circular for PG students, M field and PhD compulsory. They have to do one MOOC courses. So, for this purpose, sir, every semester, nearly three years through the writing, they have to go for Vilur or Vilpuram or Pondicherry, sir. From my place too, they have to travel, students have to travel. It is possible to set up one examination center in Thiruvannamalai, sir. Thiruvannamalai? Yes, sir. Because neighboring colleges are also there, sir. Nearly we have 20 colleges are there. If it is center is there, it is very useful to them to move easily. We'll take it down right away. Yes, sir. Please send a mail. Any such request, you don't have to necessarily ask now. Any such request, there is a process. In fact, I don't know if it's there in the webpage or not. We do have a process by which if more than, I think, 200 students can be sort of guaranteed that they will come and write an exam there, we are happy to open a center there. So, you have to write to, I think, local chapter at nptel.itm.ac. Saying that you're the SPOC and there's at least 200 people will register for an exam in Thiruvannamalai if you open a center there. And then we'll open the center and the exam form right away. So, this is a standard process. I think somewhere in the webpage, some SPOC manual, this must be there. Inside the login. You're supposed to, they're sending, sir. They're sending a form there. Inside the login, in your login. Yes, sir. You can make a request. Please do that. Yes, sir. So, another question, sir. Sir, we have M.A. Tamil and M.Phil Tamil PH Tamil, sir. For this purpose, there is no courses for Tamil courses, sir. Especially, for example, if I'm saying Tamil or like that, they want to study. There is no courses, sir. If it is possible in future, sir. Please add this kind of course, sir, for Tamil. Okay. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. We'll try. Thank you. Greetings from Sri Ramakrishna Coimbatore. I'm Varun Spokas, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology. This regarding the duplication of login, sir. Students, while they are studying in the institution, they are using their official mail ID for course registration and all. Once they left out of from the institution, they are supposed to use their personal mail ID. So, when they are going to do like that, there's a problem in the certification, like that NPTEL evangelists, NPTEL superstars, NPTEL stars like that. Is there any possibility to merge those things? I think there is a way to merge it. I think we have a process for merging. Yeah. Come here, no, come here. So, there is a form that we normally share. So, once you all try to support or to local chapter ID on this, we have a form where we share and we say that give us the IDs. But there is something that we'll have to check in those IDs to say that it belongs to the same person and we are not merging random logins and the credibility of the merging, we have to definitely check on our side. So, we do those checks and we do all that. And then after that, we make the same email ID across the thing. After they are certified, within that we do it. At the enrollment stage or during the registration stage and all we are not doing it. In fact, good that this point came up. One thing I'd like to tell all SPOCs is that, still we are seeing not a very big fraction but a small fraction where they will students enroll to courses through two email IDs. First, I don't understand why, but yes, they do enroll to the same course through two email IDs. They submit assignments through one and they register through the other. And then when the exam result comes out, there's no assignment submission on the exam registered ID. So, we say you have failed and we don't give them a certificate. Then the SPOC will appeal, student will appeal, but we will not merge it at that point because we cannot establish the credibility of the two email IDs belonging to the same person. Your friend could be doing it and there'll be no relation in the names also, right? I will be Bhatia and I'll say my alternate IDs and row. How do you merge those two IDs, right? So, we say no and we've been kind of categorical unless the principal writes a letter and the SPOC says and it's really important for graduation and all that, we've taken some proofs and we've done it. But we would say that going forward, please emphasize to your students that they register enrol two courses through one single email ID, register to the course through that same email ID, assignment submission through that same email ID. Otherwise, we will not give certificates. The scoring and all is automatic for 3.8 lakh students who are processing scores. We can't now go back, manual change something, get data and all it really costs us time and we are also prone to errors at that part. So, we would like to really enforce this and not bypass it. So, only in this case where yes, they are shifting out of a college, changing organizations and all, we have done this kind of exception for them. We validate it, there is a process, there's a form they can fill and we'll do that for them. Should we write to the... Write to either support or local chapter, one of the two will help you with it. Okay, thank you. One minute, please wait for the mic sir, one minute, please wait, please wait. Yeah, this is Dr. Kalpana Abhi from Bangalore Institute of Technology. Sir, you said that conference support will be given and many of them they are not using, but you prefer that only SPUs should come and they should give the paper. Others can, if they use it, so we can send the people, sir, who are presenting the paper. I think this, you can recommend, right? I think, did we have that? We drew it, didn't we? You don't, okay, okay. I thought one point we were relaxing that, no, we didn't relax. Okay, so... Okay, we'll see. I mean, I think, we'll take it up the next big meeting, maybe we'll discuss this. So you're saying if you can ask someone else from your college to go, then that might work better. Yeah, some faculties. Okay, okay, we'll look into it. Okay, thank you, sir. Yes, sir? Yes. Sir, last year, 23rd, 24th exam, from Kanchipuram, from Kodiatham, coming soon. So, suffering so much, so too much. So please consider, there are so many centers in Vellore, Vellupuram is there, but they're coming near Bangalore, this thing you just see. I don't know, most of the students, parents, they're very feeling so much. So please, same place. So, I think this problem, I think somebody else also raised, and I addressed it in the following way. So last semester, we did not anticipate such a large number from some cities. Okay, I think maybe they would have picked Vellore as their original center. So did we have an issue with Vellore also? I don't know if you saw. Some numbers. Krishna Giri was there. Krishna Giri was there, okay. So, first thing I'll guarantee is, every moment of one city to another, we don't do it easily. We don't think that we do it just randomly. We take it very, very seriously. We look at it very closely. In fact, we fight with our exam provider. Ugly fights it becomes. We raise it to all over the place. But frankly, at one point, they don't have the numbers. When they don't have the number of people, the number of seats in Vellore, and we have to do the exam. We cannot say we don't do the exam. Any criteria, minimum students say not in... It's not about minimum also, sir. If it goes beyond the number of computers they have, then we can't hold the exam. So, that's also a problem. So, that's why we are now working very actively in places where we expect a lot of people to register. Definitely, Coimbatore is one of them. Trichy maybe is one of them. There are one or two towns like that where we already anticipate a problem. And if in those cases, we are going to try and do the exam on a weekday also. That seems to be our plan. Last semester, we were taken by surprise by this. Now next semester, we are planning a little bit better. Hopefully, this will be avoided. But once again, you can take it as an assurance from me. We don't easily put people from one city to another just because we want to. We don't do it randomly at all. We try to minimize that as much as possible. Now we'll do more. Thank you. Sir, this is Pradeep Kumar from VIT. So, we have peculiar problems, sir. Every semester after the results come from the academics, they ask me to filter out the data of how many students have cleared certificates so that the credit transfer will be happening. So, that time what happens is, we have students of our outgoing students also. I mean, those have already passed out 10 years ago. They also registered and come under VIT. So, because we give the lifetime email address. Oh, okay. After VIT student, they give VIT alumni. So, they also come and register. So, filtering that whether he's a current student or a prospective student or he's an outgoing, I mean, already passed out student, we do not have a clue yet. But why do they pick VIT when they use VIT alumni? See, they can use VIT alumni email ID and then say, then they don't belong to VIT anymore. Why should they say that? No, but they prefer local chapter ID as 202 and then they select that. But you should ask them not to do that. I mean, like, if they do, this is very difficult. But see, actually the count is huge. It's around 35 plus thousand. I know, I know. So, you should tell the people who graduate. Sir, but I have a suggestion here. In the form here, actually this is one. Another thing is we have staff also, non-teaching staff. Learning is for everyone. See, they're a digital skilling program. Two staff member asked me, sir, the digital skilling program we wanted to enroll because they do office work, MSXL. They said that whether we put student or faculty. At least student or faculty is there. But at this, so here, what I suggest is, is there any possibility to include alumni and non-teaching or something? Well, sir, it's... Okay. We'll look into it. No, just a suggestion, sir. Yeah, I understand. Because every spark, those who have credit answer, we'll have the sure issues. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. That's what I'm thinking. Oh, my God. Yes, yes, sir. They come. Other people will now take it up, will you? Yeah. Hey, I think maybe in the form, in the enrollment form, we should ask a little bit more on if you are a current student enrolled in a program, then only then you can pick this. No, but roll number, usually it's an optional field, sir. They won't fill it up. Yeah, yeah, they won't fill roll number. They won't fill it up. But okay, we'll do the following. We'll look at the form and modify it suitably so that the wording is clear from our side. So we also would like to know that how many alumni are interested in learning. Okay. Yes, sir. We'll see if we can. Sir, I'm Dr. Prasanna. I'm Dr. K. Vijay Raja. So the roles, basically, instead of just student faculty, maybe alum can also be associated with the local chapter. They want an association with the local chapter, but it should not be included in our ratings and other things. So you have to look at it carefully. So I'm Dr. Prasanna from the Onger University from Karnataka. Ours is a conventional university which we offer only the PG non-technical courses and the PhD courses. And when we thought to make a credit transfer for the PhD students, where there are two courses which are mandatory from the UGCA, like research methodology and the research and publication ethics. But when we thought to offer for the non-crit course, but there was a problem like the courses is not in a continuous form and the courses will be running within the period only. And the other two papers which they will be opting, it will be as per our calendar of events. So is it possible to make those two courses to run throughout the year to opt out? So you'll have to do NPTEL Plus for all that. So if you do Swayam, in Swayam there is only a fixed calendar. We can't change that calendar. It's a, when the national level calendar, we can't change it. On NPTEL Plus, you can do any calendar you like. So that is the flexibility, but then you have to pay more if it's NPTEL Plus. That's a trade-off. Okay, sir. One more query, sir. As it is a conventional entity, as I said, most of the arts and other humanity students used to opt non-NPTEL courses. And there were so many grievances and which comes under the Swayam platform. And I hope only the NPTEL people is taking care of the Swayam as well. No, no, no, no. But not the courses. Not the courses. NPTEL takes care of the portal of Swayam. The technical aspects of the portal of Swayam. So the project management of Swayam overall is primarily done from the ministry. Now they've identified IGNU as the agency which will do the overall project management. NPTEL manages its courses. But our courses, I can give you some quality assurance. We are very careful about quality. But other courses Swayam has, its own processes, but some of them take more time. They don't do exams in time. But the grievances are not addressed in time. Yeah. It may take three weeks. I will let them know, so for sure. Please, for all the other coordinates, apart from the NPTEL, if there is only a single point of contact for any grievances. So they are starting one. There's going to be a grievance form. It has already started. We'll publicize that on the platform. Okay, sir. One more thing, sir. As per your presentation, I just shown, the number of students who are enrolled as per the city, the fourth was in a Bangalore. I would like to point out that more than 250 or 300 kilometers student has to travel to attend only in the Bangalore. Our ministry states with the 260 kilometers away from the Bangalore, and most of the students who enrolled, as I was a spark from the last three years, I made to enroll for more than 3,000 students to enter to the course. But for an exam registration, there are only 50. The reason was they need to travel for more than 250 kilometers. So, downgrade. It's exactly in the center part of Karnataka. Yeah, yeah. So there is a process inside your SPOC login. There is a process, if you have... Sir, I already requested, sir. Yeah. Minimum number of students. Yes. So unless we start the, say as an exam center, none of the students are going to enroll. No, I think exceptions can be made. Usually we say 200, but we also make exceptions in some cases. Please write. We'll see. Thank you. Sir, good morning. This is Dr. K. Vijayaraja from KCG College of Technology, Chennai. One request regarding the gate examination. Is it possible to include that aeronautical and aerospace engineering? Aeronautical and aerospace. There are also people from chemical engineering who also add this, this one. But this is a work in progress. So this should start soon. Thank you. Hello, team NPTEL. So, first of all, I appreciate the total effort that you are doing it for making everyone to get certified from IIT. So it was a great... And myself as Ganesh Prabhu, I'm the SPOC for Srikrishna College of Technology Coimbatore. I have a couple of questions. Number one, in the exam registration form, there is an option, there is a question called share info with SPOC. I don't know why such question is there because students belong to us. We are making them, we are motivating them. No, no, no. But still the question is there. Students don't belong to anybody. No, no. You belong to Srikrishna College of Technology. We are not guiding other college people to choose us. So that is why, why such questions? Because we live in a constitutional democracy. I will urge you to please read the constitution. Every individual has rights and nobody belongs to anybody, sir. I think, please, please understand that. Especially in the exam registration, why such question? I know, wherever, wherever, wherever in the world. And inside your own house, your own kids, there are rights your kids have with respect to you. So I think it's... Then my request, please consider them also for the rating. Because the problem is why we are asking such question, they have rights. I agree. But you are not accepting or you are not using them for rating purposes. I know it affects the rating. Yeah, definitely. We don't, we can't take that into account. So this has been, I think, every SPOC meeting somebody raises this question. Because all in the single point, that rating. That is what, that is what. Where is that poster? I think somebody asked for it. They said, you put that, then we will go, we will go and so the problem was finding out who these people are. They wanted that. We are doing that actually. The back end with that help of that hint, we are once again sharing a seat and asking them to get the information over those people. But again, it is in, it will be helpful for improving the rating. That is what. One thing we could do is maybe we can keep that on by default or is that even not allowed? Is it off by default? No, potential employee is different. There's two, two. See, the SPOC is separate. The potential employee is separate. So I'll just tell you that there are students who write to us saying, I want to do this course. I don't want anybody to know about it. At some level, that privacy also we have to respect. So we cannot have the rights of students removed also. So I think that's also important. So given that that is there, we can't do away with this. I mean, that's the real reason, sir. I mean, because if somebody asks us that question, we are a public institution. We can't say anything random, right? So we have to respect the rule of the land in some sense. So we have to accept it. Maybe the default can be changed. That that could be okay. We can put yes by default once they say local chapter and they can opt out. They can come and explicitly change it if they want. That maybe we can do. That should be okay. And also if possible, please adapt them under rating for rating purpose at least. You don't want to share anything to us at least because they are choosing our college, right? They make a mistake quite often. They make mistakes. So the check with the SPOC is what we really use for checking. Just a request, sir. Yeah, they can change it till the rating date. Later on we can, sir. We have to do some backup work, sir. That is what we can sort of those things. That's why we give you those numbers and people who have picked your college and have said not share. That is you are not sharing that, sir. If you are sharing that, then that will be very helpful. You just tell us the count. Who they are is tough. That part is tough. See, if we share and then we get into trouble, if they start fighting with us, why did you give them, then we have no way of answering that question. So we have to be very careful with this kind of data. So we'll try our best. So maybe there can be a way to send a message to those students. We can do that. We can send a message. We send a message, okay. So we are doing that also. We are trying our best from our side. It's not that we don't want to help in this, but another one, NPTEL courses not having much impact on open source software. Somebody else also made that point. Yeah, like ECM, like Sylab, what's that all? Sylab, Arduino. They are doing embedded system course, but there is no not having that much impact. Even I can say one or two courses may be there, but plenty of open source courses are there. Okay. So we need to look for, we look for explicit courses. NPT Bombay, they are doing it a lot with spoken tutorial, especially with open source software. Why can't, as many students are taking up this, so. Can you take that for credit transfer? No, ma'am, no. A spoken tutorial, they are not having that much clear format to transfer the credit, like NPTEL. So we can have those courses maybe officially, sort of, we'll start talking to them. We will discuss with them, see if we can sort of move it and offer it under our code, but they may not like that also, right? It's their thing. So we'll see, we'll try to work out, we'll talk. I thought that you are giving a way to IED Bombay to explore their course. No, no, each person has their own liking also. They want their name also, right? So it's hard to change that. We'll see. Thank you. College name was really long. Dr. K. Sashikala from Vinaya Commissions, Kripananda Warrior Engineering College, and we belongs to Vinaya Commissions and we are a team to university. And a kind request and suggestion too. So while the students enrolling the course, we have biomedical department. So in the department, why is biomedical is missing? Somebody else also asked me this during the lunch break. Anyway, yeah, go ahead. Okay, while tracking back the students' details, it was very difficult for me to do all those things. Already I have made a query through the mail, but if it added biomedical department, it will be very helpful for me. So while I'm making the query. So you want biomedical engineering, not biomedical? Biomedical. Biomedical engineering. Engineering. So they suggested me to go for arts and science and do it in biomedical sciences there. You just enrolling that. But the students were not following that. They are suggesting that they want under the engineering discipline separately as biomedical engineering. We'll take that up. Somebody else also asked. Thank you. Yes, sir. Good morning, team in Bital and fellow SPOCs. So this is Rakesh Roshan here. I'm from Rajivgana University of Knowledge Technologies, Basar Telangana. So first of all, thank you so much for all the efforts. And I could see that the initiatives that you have taken as shown, there are a plethora of initiatives that has been offered. Compared to earlier, we have been growing and you are also getting to the faculty's SPOC's needs also. So thank you so much for that. My point is regarding the soft skills training. So I just wanted to know if there is a tab on the account of the candidates because I'm looking at it from our university perspective, our students would surely benefit from that. So I'm thinking probably 400, 500 could opt for that if provided. So I just wanted to know, can we accommodate that? Is there a cap? I think who runs that Gita? 30 per batch. They would, they would. I mean, in case it's extended, they would. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah. So now the problem is, I don't know why he starts doing it. I don't know. So, see the batch size has to be small for this. See, it doesn't, it's very difficult to do this in very large scale. So batch size is small. Maybe we can work something out. We'll see. There will be, this is the sort of limitation. We'll see how to work it out. I'll write to you on that. Thank you so much. Good afternoon to all. I'm Dr. Mandiraslam, SPOC of Coimbatore Institute of Technology. I have already did 18 NPTEL courses. And in some of the courses during the in-person proctored examination, almost 50 plus percentage of questions are taken from the internal assignments questions. So, scoring the marks in assignments is very easy. Maybe copying from others scores. So, they can easily get 20 plus marks in assignment. If you get, if you ask 20 plus, 50 plus percentage of questions from assignment, then they can easily get 70 percentage of marks. So, it will give more headache to the credit transfer in institutions. Without knowing, without studying the full content of the course, they can easily get 70 percentage of marks. It is not fair to accept the credit transfer from courses. So, please look into this. Okay. I think there'll be a lot of opposition to that solution. If you ask me, so I'll tell you what we track. We do track this very closely. So, the way, the way, the reasoning for the approaches, if the person has completely copied all the assignment has not learnt at all, then in the exam, they will not be able to do well. The fact that in the exam, they're able to answer 70% of the assignment questions means that they know something about the assignments. So, but look at the total marks they're likely to get, right? They'll get something around 40, 50 types, not much more than that, okay? So, if you want to be strict in your college, you can change those metrics. You can say, I will ignore the assignment marks. You have to get so much, you can in fact even say you have to get 60% in the exam. Otherwise, I won't give you credit transfer. That liberty, I think, are you autonomous college? Yes. You have that liberty in your board of studies. You can do that adjustment yourself. In fact, most colleges do the opposite adjustment. You get lesser marks. They do that, but if you want to do it the other way, fine. I mean, no problem. So, if you say only people who get 60 and above will be given credit transfer, it's perfectly fine with me as far as I see it. But our logic for this, see earlier we didn't have any separate criteria for proctored exam, right? Now, we have 40% minimum there. Even if they get a significant part from the assignments, it's okay we felt because at least the assignment questions they're able to solve properly in proctored conditions. So, that is the logic from our side. But is it- If the students know the technology in proctored exam question pattern, then they can easily go through the assignments only, then they can get the scores. So, it's not- So, no, but they should be able to solve the assignment questions in the exam, right? So, we don't, actually, is it, are you saying the assignment questions are exactly repeated- Yes, yes, definitely. No, they are not repeated exactly. Excuse me, excuse me, I did 18 courses. I did 18 courses. I know everything about the proctored exam question purpose. Exactly the same questions from the assignments are taken for the- Okay, so please report that to us. That is actually a violation of our policy. We say similar questions to the assignments, but we expect the numbers and all to be changed, okay? So, it cannot be just copy-paste from the assignment as such. Comprehensive type questions, the same paragraph was- Yeah, please write to us. If you see such patterns, please write to us. We will fix that. So, we expect people to not just mug up the assignment questions and come and repeat, definitely. That's what is the intent of our policy on this, but if you see violations, please report. We're very happy that you're asking this question. Please see this, thank you. Good morning. This is Rosa Chandrasekhar Spock, representing Arvya and J.C. Karaja Vinayari. I'm happy to inform you that we started our journey in 2017 January. From then onwards, we have been performing very well with support of our students. And right now, I can say that students are completely transformed from offline to online, not because of COVID, because of this NPTEL. So, we could see that our intention is also we need to inculcate self-learning skills. That is the main point which we are taking as a slogan to promote the NPTEL courses. Here now, the students' focus is on, NPTEL is offering some diploma courses, particularly on data science and as well as the programming domains. NPTEL. I'm sorry, diploma, POD exams. Oh, that is not NPTEL, sir. Okay, okay. That is IIT Madras software. Yes, I wanted to compare that. Ah, okay. Now in AP also, our state government started offering that minor degree courses. And particularly, we have the different industry tracks and as well as the specialization tracks and CSC for non-CSE students minor degree were offering all this. But our, I mean, nowadays all the opportunities are related to IT market, information technology. Now, the students' focus is mainly on the roles like DevOps, web developer, and full stack developer. I mean, cloud architect or something like that. So for that reason, we started two industry tracks. One is full stack development, other one is the cloud computing. So of course, we don't have many options. In cloud computing, we have the three courses, undoubtedly. Part of that full stack, we have Java and as well as the Python, undoubtedly. So on and on, you want to add some full stack developer. Yeah, similarly, you are offering the domain certification in mainly AI, data science, and as well as the programming. If it is possible quickly to develop some courses related to full stack kind of thing. And that is more useful. And in this minor track, we have the constraint like we need to give two MOOCs courses. But we are unable to find the relevant courses to full stack, relevant courses to that, DevOps or something like that. Please think on this and do you have the... So there's one effort that is sort of underway. A few years back, NPTEL used to offer a modern application development course. I don't know if you've seen that. It was quite popular at that time. And then we stopped it. We tried reviving it and it ran into some rough weather. In fact, Professor Madhavan is here. He was involved in the revival also. By the way, Professor Madhavan is here. Those of you who have not seen him, Professor Madhavan Mukund. So Madhavan Mukund from Chennai Math Institute. You might know him. He offers quite a few courses on NPTEL. So we've tried to revive that, but it didn't work out the way we thought. Now we are reviving it again. I'm told something is going on. So we may have an application development course. So full stack development is an interesting idea. So we'll work on that. That's something that we can do. Thanks. So I think somebody is already waiting. Very good morning. I'm Dr. Indra Priyadashini from Vinayaka Mission Changracharya Dental College. From Salem. Belongs to Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation University, Dean D University. I have two doubts regarding domain courses. Is there any domain courses related to the research as such we can do like health research related courses? So you're talking about health research? Health research. Like health research fundamentals and patent. It's like combined domain courses, anything is there? Okay. So we can bring it up with, see the main group that works with us is National Institute of Epidemiology. So they work with us on this. We'll convey it to them that there's might be an interest in a domain, health research domain. Yes, health research domain. And asking about the patent and all those things. Patent for beginners and patent drafting and all this. Patent drafting is independently there, but not connected to health as such. There is an independent patent drafting course. Domain courses related to the research. Generally health, like dental sciences and medical sciences, they can do. Okay. We'll convey this to you. And another doubt. I'm from the dental science and health related, but I'm getting all the messages that related to the NPTELs why I'm regarding engineering, like all the course details and all these things because I'm not able to follow the related medical courses. So many males are coming, whether you can able to filter that, whether it's very important. We'll work on it. To filter it and send it to us. Yeah, good feedback. We'll try and work on it. Thank you, sir. And then e-content development, is there any format, how to do about it? How to do e-content development. E-content development in NPTEL and others why I'm related to this thing? Yeah, okay. That's also something we can work on. Good suggestions. Thank you. Sir, good afternoon, sir. Myself, Bestly Joe from King's Engineering College. See, actually I have few doubts regarding the fee waiver. Actually, we come under Sri Pramodur of Chennai. Actually, when we clicked the fee waiver section of the SPOC login, we are informed that we are under tier one college, actually. Really what is there is, our students belong to tier two as well as tier three areas. They are coming from those areas and they are getting educated. So please write to local chapter. We do make exceptions. There is a college in Mumbai for which we have made an exception even though they are in Mumbai. So we can make an exception. Please write. Previously we were under tier two, but recently we were changed to tier one. So please write to local chapter. So you will be having fee waiver for that exception. We can make it. One more thing, sir. Recently many of our institutions are going for NPA accreditation and NAC accreditation process. So when we come to NPTEL, if NPTEL is offering courses related to NPA and NAC accreditation process, it would be much useful because of all of our institutions are going for accreditation process. Previously we had, but currently it's same. Okay. Previously we had, okay, okay, okay, sir. Thank you. Yes. Good morning, sir. I'm Sister Vinci Joseph from St. Mary's College, Putanangadi, Kerala. And I have two clarifications regarding the Sohyam NPTEL. Is it linked to or is there any collaboration with the other AICT or something like that domains? So I didn't understand the question. So is the NPTEL have any linkages or collaborations with other AICT, with other national coordinators in Sohyam? Yes. Okay. So, see on Sohyam, we are also a national coordinator. We offer courses independently. Other national coordinators offer independently. Now, if you take the case of AICT, AICT also has other roles. I mean they are a national coordinator in Sohyam, but they also, of course, regulate all technical education in the country, right? So with them, we have a MOU for FDP. So that is not because they are a Sohyam national coordinator. It's because they are a regulator for technical education in the country. So like that, we have some arrangements, but not, I don't know if we offer jointly with anybody, any other NC. Okay. And one more thing. You have mentioned about the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship Program. What are the criteria for, is it any relation with NPTEL? No, I mean, see that is an independent program. Okay. I was trying to explain what is going on there. Basically, the PMRF fellows, the fellows under that program, have to teach outside of IIT. There is a requirement like that. So one part of that requirement, they can fulfill through teaching on NPTEL. So is it only for IIT students? So the PMRF is given to mostly top institutes in the country. You can look it up. You can see PMRF, people can apply, and then they have an extensive selection process. It's given to what they believe are the best PhD students in the country or something like that. Okay, sir. Thank you. Yes, sir. So we are offering 17 UG programs. Mostly the automobile engineering, we are not able to find, so we normally give professional elective replacement for NPTEL courses. So it's domain specific courses that are not available for the automobile. The electric vehicle is coming up in a great way, but only few courses are run in the NPTEL. That can be, there are a lot of scope is available in the electric vehicle. At least 10 different courses we can be able to run. Sure, we are working on some courses, I think, but not only... Yeah, earlier we had electric vehicle, one electric vehicle, two, but purely electrical side, the mechanical... The entire automobile. The entire automobile. Only basics of automobile is available that is offered by IIT Madras, Sankar Raman sir. If possible, we will approach more people. The second suggestion is, you offered for few courses in Tamil. One course? Only one course, right? That's that. Machine learning, right? Can you... What is the second one that's coming? Our welding is coming, yeah. Why don't you increase that? We'll work on it. We'll work on it. I have the very difficult job of finding faculty who will teach. So we'll find out. Yeah. At least, the national building, important subjects you can be able to... Yes, sure. Hello. I am Dr. Arsendil Kumar, from Ashinam Professor, Instructor of Program Transport Technology, E-Road. Sir, I did one course that Arduino and... And then Android app using Kotlin. I got a certificate from Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay. Whether NPTEL will provide a certificate for these two courses? So not directly, right? I think what Spoken Tutorial gives is independent of that. See, a couple of things I want to say. Generally, NPTEL courses tend to be close to college curricula, right? Whatever curriculum colleges have, we try to follow that. And we stay a little bit away from labs because it's hard for us to ensure and check lab skills. It needs a little bit more of a direct involvement. So for the courses offered by Spoken Tutorials, what certificate you get from there is what you get. Whether we can use it for CIS in 6th and 7th grade? I think, I don't think, I don't know if Spoken Tutorials has any such thing. You have to ask them what they have. They have MOU with the ACTE. Yeah, so you'll have to ask them what it is. I'm not aware of that. Okay, sir. Second question is, if the students cleared in GATE mock test, whether NPTEL will provide a certificate for them? On GATE? On GATE, if they pass? GATE mock test, mock test. Practice test, do you use certificates? Okay. Okay, and then a third question is, regarding the translation, just translation of test script is enough, or video lecture? So I think Professor Pratap described that process. I'll briefly repeat what he said. So the current process they are using is the English text will be given as a PDF to you. You have to sort of look at a few sentences and then read out the equivalent in the other language, whatever language you pick. You read it out and get it recorded. And that recording gets transcribed in that language by Google or something. And that's available and you edit it. That is the process they follow. So once you sign up, they will walk you through this. You will not be just thrown into it. I think the team is a big, fairly big translation team. They will interact with you, get some samples from you, do a quality check and come back to you. So it's, you'll be, I mean, told what to do slowly through the process. Thank you, sir. In three years they have to complete. Due to this COVID, they couldn't be able to take the exam and that will cancel them. So can you extend one semester for this? Yeah, we'll do that. That should be possible. How does they give more importance to domain certification? Yeah, yeah. So one can be extended. We'll extend. Thank you, thank you so much. Yes. Yes. After him. Yes. This is Dr. J. Mohan Vasudev. From Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati, sir. Where for four open elective courses were in the college where grade transfer was taking place, sir. The students will submit in the certificate in the department to the HOD and HOD will intern with Spoke. They will compare and they will award marks as per the grades and in the grade sheet they will get it. Sir, in 60 semester two courses and seven semester two courses were included where we would like to include in the art course also. Generally, Consciousness of India is there. Even though our students, one of our faculty from Arts College, they are used to teach, but our students of all civil engineering students again studied in NPTEL through from New Zealand University. So again, Consciousness of India courses is common for each and every student. So try to keep and learn that program several times, sir. And also universal human knowledge is possible. That is those two art course also we would like to make as compulsory under NPTEL. And another thing, sir, generally you, in AICT, zero to 20% up to 20%, sir. Up to 20% means zero to 20%. Even one course to 20% means 160 grades per beta course. So 32 grades, zero to 30 grades means one course they can take up to 10 courses also they can take. But I think now, zero to 40% they enhanced and recently we received mails also in this regard. So at least they put 10%. Minimum, minimum, instead of zero. So at least that is, that will be more useful, sir, because the students also will learn and they will get different exposure. Even on our university college, we had earlier the placement packages around four to six lakhs. Now our students are enhanced nearly seven to 12 lakhs. So that is almost doubled the package also. They are getting internships in the HSE minister while in the college itself they are getting money. So they are feeling happy. So instead of that at least 10% if you fix up, that will be more useful to the students who are studying very well. At least that is a city you can say. Another second point. So you are getting awareness workshops also. So we would like to make awareness not for our college. Actually our college students are very well known to the NPTL, all these things. But because our university is having several affiliated colleges of science and arts also. So we would like to first focus on science colleges. There we are having more number of students in Tirupati. So at least what is the procedure to apply for e-workshop? So we've been not doing any workshops because of COVID. No, no, no. We will conduct our e-workshop. Generally you are giving. Oh, you will conduct yourself. Yes, sir. We will conduct. Oh, online. Oh, online. Through online, we will conduct. Yeah, yeah. I think. You just write to local chapter at NPTL. Okay. That is what I'm saying. You're doing online. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yes. So that was somebody who stood up. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Sir, one small suggestion is that regarding the user interface of the login, student login, sir. So recently, what the present current students, what they're facing is something, they're feeling something old or something like that. And if the assignment scores, whatever it is, there's something like, if they show, there's just, we are getting some numbers. So in the presentation, what you have made the starting, you have shown this graphs and very interactive thing. So if that user interface is something very good in the login, student login, that could be helpful. That is one point, sir. The second thing is for exam registration, they have to click that link on the login. So and then that is redirected to other page. So why again redirecting to other page such that it is directly available? If that is made, there will be no confusion. Again, login. Presently as of now, the student has to click that and again he has to login one more time. So usually the login is again the same Google type login, right? Yeah, yes, sir. So that page will come again. Again it will come. I think first time when they do it, it'll be like that. But I guess that's the only time they do it. Yeah, I think that's a different application on the backend. We can pass this on to the SWIM team. We'll do that. Even that, the certificate what they receive, they receive that in that exam registration. They won't, we won't receive in the student login what we are. I suggested that if it, that is interlinked, that could be helpful more. So I think the UA itself, the UA itself, I don't know if there's a big plan to revamp it. Do you know, are they discussing that? Okay, so there is a long list of things that the team has planned. And I think maybe I should introduce Lakshmi and Ram Krishna usually sit on those meetings. They figure out what to do, et cetera. And like I said, SWIM is a multinational coordinator portal, right? Everybody has their own requests and you have to figure out what to put there, what not to put there. It's a bit of a challenge. And changing UI, while you say, it's make it more user friendly, the problem is what is friendly to one person, other people get totally upset. They are so used to the old one. They go, why are you changing? Why are you changing? They'll just kill you. So it's very hard to make any change that easily. They'll work on it. But I think there is a plan. There is a long-term plan to change many UI also. We'll change. Thank you, sir. Sir, thank you, sir. Just two questions. One is with regard to this credit transfer. So as you already made it very clear, this credit transfer remains as one of the strong drivers for a higher rate of enrollment. So that's also one of the problems that we face in our college because ours is an affiliated college, neither an autonomous nor an university. So therefore finding it very difficult for the students to get enrolled for the university hasn't made any kind of provision for credit transfer. So just thinking whether kind of communications from NPTEL team to the universities are going forward. Please write to us what the university is. You can write to local chapter at NPTEL and we'll represent to them, ask them to consider it. And one more thing, sir, with regard to this FTP program. So the faculty, so as you said, the MOE between AICT and the NPTEL is working. But also for faculty members working in under the UGC affiliated colleges. So kind of we are also required to undergo certain courses. So when we attempt any kind of courses, so will it not? Right now, right now there's no MOE with UGC for us. We have tried multiple times in the past. We have not gotten through. Maybe we should try once again now, now that the UGC has a new administration. So maybe we'll try again, see how it goes. Okay. Good morning everyone, good morning professor. I'm Dr. Samson Anush Babu from, as spoke and from Krishna Chaitanya Institute of Technology Markabur sir from Andhra Desh. Okay, I recently appointed as a spoke to our institute in January. While I appointed as a spoke, I means while considering the student registrations and some other things, I faced little technical issues. Okay, but I tried to write a local chapter. Meanwhile, I also mentioned a few things to local chapter, they cleared. But I request you to start a helpline at least in office hours like. Phone never? Yes sir, yes sir. For emergency purposes at least. Actually, group is there, but I don't want to disturb the whole group. There is a WhatsApp group, no? Yes sir, yes sir. Yes, it is there. But in WhatsApp group, if we post anything, actually you always, even though you are playing privately, but I suggest just to start a helpline for emergency purposes. Okay, we'll try, we'll look into it. Thank you sir, thank you so much. Actually, for emergency purposes, ma'am, actually I faced lot of technical issues, I mean issues at the time of registrations and all. That's why. So usually it's the first time after that, you'll be fine. Yeah, a few things are there still, I didn't get solved sir, thank you. Okay, I'm a Dr. Sheikh Zakir Hussain from Vignan University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. So I have two questions, one it is the domain certification. You said that it is the sum of the courses, it is repeating to the end several domains. So you are considering for the only one domain option. So that it is the faculty or student intent to do that, it is the multiple domain. What it is option, he has to repeat, he has to repeat the same course again. No, no, no, I think we have avoided that. No, see the core courses will not repeat, are the core courses repeating? Okay. In the electives. Okay, you don't repeat the same course. So that it is not clear, sir. It is a given that it is a, you should be there counted once. Yeah, everything will be counted only once. So if let's say core course A, if it is in one domain, it's a core course. You have done it already, you've got the domain. The same course A, if it comes up in another domain, you've already finished it, you will, you don't have to repeat it, but you have to earn a certain minimum number of credits. Okay. Right, for that you do more electives. So that you will do one additional elective so that the total number of credits is equivalent to that domain. So that clearly you should be mentioned in the domain. Maybe that wording is not clear, we will put that out. Another is that, so that it is a many engineering colleges, so that it is a non-circuit branches, it is a converting to the, it is a CSE related AAE data science, that is that. So everywhere the faculty, it will be that, it is a main problem. So the many faculty, it is encouraged. We in the Vignani University, we are encouraged to do that, it is the domain certification of the programming data science, AAML. So we are considering for them, it is the FNN, the non-CSE faculty also, after certifications of the one domain, able to teach into that, it is in the CSE like that. So if you are coordinating with the AACT, such that it is such a help, it will be that, it is a, those who are completed that, it is a particular domains. So that can be the helpful for that, it is a domain scholars who are effort to give that to the other branches people. So right now, AACT is not allowing them to teach in CSE. See, so can you do something else? See what happens in IATM, for instance, in electrical engineering, we offer a data structures course. It's taught by electrical engineering faculty, it has a EE course number, it's in WEE department, it's not in CSE, but the course is called Data Structures and Algorithms, okay? So I don't know, does AACT stop that? So that's that, if it is the faculty for that, it's the- So I think- Affiltrated university also, so that it is- Then it's your choice, it's in your board of studies, you should ask, like for instance, data science for biotechnology, data science for chemical engineering, let the person who has the domain from chemical engineering teach that for, in the chemical engineering department with the CSE. So how you brought to that, it is the AACT and UGC credit transfer, like that it is small, amendment can be made, so that it is a domain-certificated faculty can teach such a related courses. Recommendation. No, I understand that, I'm just trying to argue the point, you see, they'll say they don't, they're not stopping that at all, right? Not stopping. To be able to teach in CSE, it is the computer science students. So in his branch, there is no admissions, how can teach him? That kind of problem. That kind of, so that it is a, the existing faculty can migrate to that, it is a CSE, CSE, CSE data science. So it's so many faculties are putting to the effort. So people don't want to join that department itself, is what you're saying. Yes sir. Okay, we'll see, if I get a chance, I will talk about this. Okay, thank you. Sir myself, Harshavardhan Dhutmani from SJC Institute of Technology, Czech Balapur, Karnataka. So the question has been actually raised from one of the other spoke. My question is that, as we know this in all the domains, open source software is coming up. So we do make use of an open software, but students are not aware about what is open source, how open source software are developed. So can we have some course related so that students will get to expose and come up with their startups with the learning and the open source? Okay, yeah, I think we will work on this. A lot of people are asking about open source. We'll work on this a little bit. So far we have not done that. Thank you. Hello, sir. I'm Shanta from RV College, Bangalore. There is a facility for SPOCs for conference support. Right, and it is only for conferences organized by IITs and NITs and CSIR, those kind of colleges. Our doubt is, or the question is, we don't find though IITs or NITs conducting or organizing conferences recently. So if there is some link or a portal where all the upcoming conferences by IITs or NITs are listed out, we can look into that. If at all it suits our own discipline, then we may submit our papers over there. So I'll tell you how it works, which discipline are you in? Computer science. Computer science. So see, computer science, there are professional organizations, like for instance, Prasad Madan himself is here. ACM is a very popular professional organization. So you can go look at conferences that are technically co-sponsored. I don't know what the equivalent word is in ACM. IEEE always says technically co-sponsored. So ACM websites will list their conferences. So you can go to particular, I think maybe there are multiple subdivisions inside. The thing is it has to be organized by IITs and NITs. You go from there. So whoever is technically co-sponsoring will have a list of all conferences. You go there and see if in particular any one of these is in an IIT or an NIT. It's very likely that there'll be. And then you target that. Okay. The same thing you can do in IEEE also. Just go look at the, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, IEEE will do in multiple institutions. I'm not saying no, but I'm just talking about, among that you find out which one is in an IIT or an NIT and then you. Very good afternoon to one and all. Myself Sai Venkatakrishna from Mega Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women, Hyderabad. I'm glad that I'm here and I've done 36 courses from NPTEL as of now. And I wanted to give a small feedback regarding the courses. One is as service briefing, the assignments are repeated most of the time with the same old assignments of previous years. And next thing is kindly provide the solution set of examination what has been taken by the NPTEL at least for a few days after the result is announced. So that, because after doing 30s, 30s course I was failed in one of the course. And I wanted to know the result of that because I wanted to know the solutions of that particular course, but I could not get it. If that is made allowed for the students who took the examination at least to cross check the solutions what they have attempted, that would be good enough. Okay, so I want to answer this thing on the repeat. So one of those things that's happening is you can sit down please. So the budget for, I mean this is again a technical sort of government-ish answer but I don't know a better answer. The budget for rerunning a course has been dramatically reduced to almost zero. So we don't get any more or less we don't get much money for, in fact it's very close to zero, right? It's nothing is given now. So when there's no money for rerun, coming up with a faculty who's willing to support in terms of generating new questions. So on the one side it seems like just questions how can they generate? It takes a lot of time to generate good nice questions and you have to pay people for that, right? Whether it's time and effort, they have so many other things and now we are not able to pay, okay? So now we have come to that kind of a situation where many courses we now run in what is called a repeat mode which is literally the same thing that's repeated. We're not able to afford the creation of new questions. So that is a big issue. Having said that, we will try our best. If you say that for instance, particularly in the exam, sometimes if you think it's being repeated a lot, it needs new questions, please write to us. We will try and work on individual courses which need this kind of attention. Generally across the board, it's a bit difficult for us to come up with new questions and the exam front, our current policy is if for one particular exam, a student wants to see what happened, we allow them to go to the nearest IIT and Peter's office and then you can sit there and see your paper and what happened. That is something that we allow. Anything else we do is fraught with too many difficulties. So that's the problem. Sir, one more question. Okay, we are out of time almost, maybe we'll take last couple of questions. One more question, sir. There are nine national coordinators in Swayam, except NPTEL platform, as I spoke, we are unable to get the exam registration and the results of the exams. We are able to see the course registration, I mean the course enrollment details of other national coordinators. Why not to give your platform technology to other national coordinators too? We'll work on that. I think right now there is a system that's coming up. We are working on some way of integrating everything. We are unable to how many people are registered for the exam and the results of the exam registers. We are unable to. We'll work on that. Thank you. I know, I know, I know. So we'll work on that. I think it is a problem. There's some effort going on to integrate the process of exams and all that. We'll work on that. Sir, one more question. Just I want to convey and register that our university is providing as a capacity building. University is a motivating and encouraging staff. Starting from 2000, they are providing 7,500 for faculties under research. So if you are giving more courses on how to build a journal, how to develop a journal and about the impact factor. Already we are having the pattern drafting. Apart from that, if more research-oriented courses are there, so it will be helpful for faculties to go on that. Okay, we'll go on. Okay, last question. Okay, this will stop. I have three questions. Okay. I used to ask questions normally. Okay. Whenever we, this is a rare kind of meeting, so I just want to clarify. See, we are autonomous institution. We are taking NPTEL course for credit transfer. I always fight with my principal and this credit should be directly taken to the final exam credit. But principal always says he wants to conduct a one more examination. What is a general practice happening? That I just want to know, 90% of the, 70% so that I can able to convince. I just want to know that one question. Second question is, you are looking for examination centers, right? Just like another link you can provide for all the LCs to come forward for local examination centers so that the problems will be solved, actually. See, your problem is number of computers, I believe. It's not just that. No, no, at least the space and... So it is a bit more complicated, sir. Maybe I can describe that. I don't want to take this time to describe that. There's a lot of administrative issues beyond just computers. I just gave that as an example, but a number of issues are there. Okay, the last part is, as somebody mentioned, the IIT can take a leading role in this. There is a big downfall in student registering for the fundamental courses, like mechanical, electrical, civil... Core, core. This is a very bad trend, which I could see. Within another five, 10 years, you will find a lot of drawbacks is going to come, right? Whether you are imposing... From your side, is it possible to reinforce, right? Definitely, the mechanical is required, or... So... I don't know. So I think these departments may not be there in IIT, also. So if you go to top universities in the US, right? You can go to the Berkley and the other institutes of the world. Currently, their CS departments are growing huge. Everybody there wants to do CS. In fact, their mechanical department doesn't even exist, I think. Very few people they have. So it's a worldwide phenomenon. And many top universities are also market-driven, no? I think wherever you get jobs, people will come and learn. How do we force someone... See, in our own institute, an IIT, I can share this data. I don't know if you can share this data. You go beyond the top branches, right? Number of people taking up core jobs is very less. If you look at a core job, you will get hardly five lakhs a year. Maybe, you know, six lakhs a year. And there's an IIT job, you can just like that, you can get 15 lakhs a year. Why will they take something like this? It's a... And core industry cannot pay more. They just cannot pay more. That's... It's not their model. It doesn't work like that. It's not so lucrative as software. There's no comparison. Even in... You can take any area. You can take any area, even in electrical engineering. If you do one part of VLSI, you get paid so much more than if you do hardware, electronics and all that. It's... That's what it is. That's the nature of business. We can't change those things fundamentally. But we do teach everything whoever wants to learn, can learn. So coming back to the first question you asked. First question, please. First question was what the... Sir, whether they are conducting one more... Model for that. I think it varies a lot, but I would say most people are taking the marks from the NPTEL exam and maybe modifying it a little bit. That is my guess. I don't have data or anything. We've not collected data. I think most people take directly. I think let's see how many of you are taking directly? Maybe if you're doing... So you see that's the sort of number. How many of you do something else? See? Separate exam might be much better. Separate exam, do you conduct your own exam? How many of you conduct your own exam? See that's very, very less. For the failed student you conduct. Okay. For everybody conducting is very less, sir. I think that is very less. Conducting another exam is actually quite less. That I've not heard at all. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes. A lot of them are asking about motivating students to take up courses and how do we get them to do some things. I like this part of it. Even when we do awareness workshops, I keep saying that these are slides that probably we should also show to students to say how others are studying. Like sir was saying he did 18 courses or 137 courses and all that. We do have quite a few students. We have two domain scholars. We have also invited them here to kind of share experiences today. We thought that could be helpful in taking it back to your students if you haven't actually tracked these statistics here. So there's another set of data that we track from our side on NPTEL. How many people write one exam, two exams? The max that you can write in a semester is six because we have three exam dates and two sessions. So we've been tracking that. Interesting part is you can see the two exam percentages increased to 11.9% starting from say 8% in Jan 2019 or something. And there is a small fraction that is doing four, five, six exams also. Yes, when you compare three and a half lakhs, it's very small. But there is this fraction that is doing these. And I'll show you the star, NPTEL's star stable that is really increasing a lot over the last one or two semesters that we have seen. So many seem to be aspiring to do a domain or doing more courses per semester. I don't know if it's NPTEL's star tag that they want or generally they are interested and they're going for it. But there is an increasing trend that we are seeing here. Cost hopper in four, five, and six courses of the Jan 2022 semester. We have faculty, we have employed, we have others who are there. So there are people who are not just doing six courses, not just writing exams for six courses. They are toppers in all six courses or five out of six courses, four out of six courses. So these are the superstars we call them on NPTEL website. So there are quite a few of them. This is just the sample that we are showing you, but it is just to show that you could be from any background and you can still kind of do this kind of study from NPTEL. Multiple exam takers, we also just wanted to profile them. Homni are female, male. Yes, the male in overall, it's a lot more. Faculty, student, and others also, we do see significant fraction in all three doing multiple courses with us. So that is something that we also track from our side. Highest number of NPTEL course takers. I think 47 is standing steady that Vignesh Aditya has been missing for one or two years now, but he's still holding the 47 course position. After that it's 41, 40. So these are a number of people. Of course the bulk is the one course taker like Prasad was saying, but the two, three, four, and all is also significant, which is nice to see that people are coming back for more courses, you know. I don't know, forced by policy, forced by college, or they like it, I don't know the reason, but yes, they do come for more courses to us. Highest number of NPTEL course takers. We have documented it here. Sir, is your name there? You asked me for that. Yes, okay. So it's there here, his name is here. So these are people against student, faculty, others who have taken the highest number of courses, 47, 41. So I think these 41, 40, 39 have to beat the 47th guy, unless of course he's gonna start studying again. So we'll have to see what happens. But you can see the towns also. See it's not all the metros who are doing these multiple courses, right? That's what we like to emphasize here. These are students, learners, faculty from smaller tie to tie three towns, also art science colleges also, from employed sector also who are doing it. It's not like it's only the metros or the main cities that we are getting these kind of learners from. It's from across the country and across various different age groups, profiles that we are getting these kind of learners from. Upcoming semester, I think most of you of course know, July 2022 semester, we have exams on September 25th for now, 29th and 30th are the dates. But like we keep saying, September 24th or September 26th might be a date we are going for additional in certain cities like say Coimbatore, Chennai, Trichy, Guntur, I don't know where the numbers are gonna come from that. And it's October 28th or October 31st. The Friday or the Monday we'll be doing exams again in these cities based on the registration count that we are going to see coming up from here. All the timelines, deadlines are given here on when the form opens, form closes on all the data that is to be shared. Timelines are shared with you I think inside your SPOC login, you can see that. This we have already discussed. There is one thing that we are just, we are gonna ping you about this boxer come here. I think many of you, I've already seen WhatsApp status, you have posted photos of being here at the gate inside and I'm here and all that. But we'd also like you to share it in a more formal sense so that it can be tagged and we can track it. So we put out a QR code, there are posters outside that you can just scan and there is a two step process using which you can maybe make some posts if you haven't still posted that you are at the event here with us. So one of the attractions that we find in NPTEL is, you know, we do all this work but we are not great at publicity. We really don't talk about what we do outside of our circles, we never ever put out anything that we did this, we did that. We don't track and push students into saying, oh, we did this, we don't push our faculty and nothing, you know, literally we just keep doing work and that's one of the lacks. So whenever we go somewhere, I keep complaining, people who have done much lesser, they make more noise than we do sometimes for all the work we do. So we thought we should probably catch up a bit on the publicity front and today's, this QR code is just that you guys are here and maybe you're happy to be back here, you're happy to interact here, you could start off with that and we'll be pinging some students, some of our learners to post what they feel like. It's not like we're gonna give you text and say, please say this, obviously not, never, we will do that. But whatever you wanna say, we would like to encourage you to start posting a bit on NPTEL so that more people also know about, you know, these courses take benefit from it. So this is something that you can do. There are the QR codes outside, we'll also help you out with that. I think now we'll come to the last part, which is the local chapters that we haven't spoken about, Rasa Vignesh, would you like to take over at this point? We'll talk about the domains, right, first and then you can go to... So, thanks Bharti. So, domains is something which was started recently and I think it's already popular. A lot of people actually talked about it. They were asking about nuances. We also have domain scholars here so who have successfully completed domains. So we just thought it'll, anyways, for people who are not fully familiar or if you have questions regarding that, we thought we'll go through what these domains are and what kind of domains we actually have. So as Professor Andrew already mentioned, there are more than 50 domains. So we have also made sure that it is available in various disciplines. So as you can see, we have domains in different topics. So we have a domain in aerospace, which is on flight mechanics. So we do have domains in biotechnology. So there was somebody who was asking about health science research. So although it's not specifically medical research related domains, we do have domains which are related to bioengineering or biosciences where you would be able to get some courses which can help you with research in health sciences and so on. And the more popular domains are probably the ones under computer science which is your data science, artificial intelligence, programming and so on. So these are sought after by many people because it does help in employment and things like that. So we have domains in, multiple domains in civil, mechanical, management, maths, chemical engineering, humanities, metallurgy. So we also have domains for, which are around faculty training and development. So this is, we have domains for newly joined or faculty who are just starting their careers and also for faculty who are a little more experienced and so on. So these are some of the various domains which are there and we also have different ways of recognizing students and learners who have actually been part of NPTEL and have continued learning from NPTEL through various courses, not just one. So we have various levels based on the number of courses they have done and how they have performed in these courses. So the domain is basically where you do a set of core courses and electives in a specific area so that you gain expertise and skills in that specific domain itself. So there is, it's quite rigorous actually. So it involves like six or seven courses in many cases and you have to score above a certain percentage and also completed within a short period of time. So as somebody was requesting, so there may be some waivers given because of COVID and so on. But yeah, so it's quite rigorous. You also have other recognitions which are not domain specific. So a person could have taken courses in various domains, but just based on the number of courses they have taken and how they have performed in these courses, there are different recognitions which people get. So as you can see, appeared in four, five, six exams and topped in at least three exams. So these are learners who are actually very actively involved and Bharti already showed some examples of people who have done that, who took six exams and topped in all six and so on. So there are people who are doing exceptionally well by taking many courses as well. So these are some of the ways we are keeping the learners motivated and recognizing their efforts and consistency while they do multiple courses. So here are some numbers. As you see, the awareness about the domain scholars is growing. The number of people who have been recognized as domain scholars is increasing every term in the last two and a half years or so since the time it was started. The number of NPTEL superstars is 58 and as you go, there are multiple people who are in a few hundred students are there. And as you can see, the interesting thing is, now there is a lot of shift towards the domain certification. So there seems to be an understanding and awareness of importance in learning in one specific area and gaining strength and expertise there. So we are hoping that these numbers will go into thousands in the future. So all of you here are representing various LCs we have. So we thought we should also give some numbers and some information about how LCs are helping us in with respect to the NPTEL growth and success. So here are some data and some information which we would like to share. So these are the total number of local chapters that we have. So one of the biggest strengths of NPTEL is the number of local chapters and the effort of all the Sparks who have been making sure that they are ambassadors of NPTEL in individual colleges which has really helped in the number of people who are registering and also doing successfully through NPTEL. So as you can see, there are more than 4,600 local chapters all through the country. So there are more than 900 local chapters in Maharashtra which is the largest state with respect to the number of LCs. The followed by Tamil Nadu, which is around a little more than 700. And as you can see, significant number of states have more than 100 LCs. And we all have an LC in almost every state and union territory I think. So whether it is the Northeast or Andaman or wherever you go, we do have LCs and they have been helping us with reaching out to the students and various other learners. So in addition to the LCs who are there in India, we have LCs in other countries as well. So some of them are active. Some of them do engage with us and we are trying to expand this further so that there is a larger international presence for NPTEL as well. So as we already mentioned, we are already conducting exams for people from outside the country which has now grown to a few hundreds and we hope that will also keep increasing. So we do have certain challenges with respect to having centers and exam timings and things like that, which is one of the bottlenecks when it comes to international registrations, but we are looking to expand these as well. Okay, so as you can see, the LC participation is actually a very promising trend which actually shows that local chapters are very crucial for the success of this NPTEL program. As you can see, since the time the LCs were started, the percentage of registrations where the fraction from local chapters has been increasing. So right now it is more than 80%. So it's around, since the last three, four years, it has been hovering around 80% of registrations which are from LCs. So there is definitely a lot of impact a local chapter has and the SPOCs definitely play a major role in ensuring that the students are enrolling and also participating in the exams and so on. Okay, and yeah, so this is participation for various LCs. So you have different states which are the top 10 states which have participated in different activities. So you have about total registration close to 90,000 in Tamil Nadu and 43,000 in Andhra and so on. And the same numbers for this just recently completed term is also a given. So this Tamil Nadu accounts for about 20% of the registrations and Andhra is about 10%, Maharashtra is 8% and so on. So LCs participating has gone down. Okay, so that is something which we have seen. So post COVID, we see that the number of LCs who have been actively participating in this has come down. So as you can see, you have 623 here to 546 here and that's actually true for every state. It's not just in one state. So you can look at all numbers and everywhere the number of LCs which have been actively involved has been reducing. So we are hoping that these kinds of events and more face-to-face interactions and workshops will help us to regain the strength and also increase the numbers in the future. Okay, so these are the top 10 LCs based on registrations or ratings, based on ratings, okay. So based on ratings, these are top 10 LCs for Jan 2022. So I think one thing which Bharti mentioned was a few years back, the South used to have dominated the top 10 and now there seems to be a significant increase in the number of LCs from the North who are in the top 10 rankings, ratings. So I think we need to catch up as well. Okay, so top 100 LCs for the Jan 2020 to Jan 2022 term. Tamil Nadu has about 24 LCs, 28 to 24 LCs. And the number of LCs which are performing very well in West Bengal has increased. Andhra has also increased, UP has hovered around the same number and so on. So the interesting number here we see is it's primarily currently engineering and technology and management. So it's also probably because NPTEL courses are focused mostly towards engineering programs. So we do hope to increase the number of sciences and related courses. We are happy, we were happy to see a few, quite a few people from arts and science colleges who are here. So we hope that we will be able to cater to the needs of the students and learners from that background so that we have more people. So as Professor Andhra was saying, 60 lakh, 10 times more students are doing arts and science and it's important that they are exposed to high quality education and training as well. So we will work on that and we need your support in making sure that they identify the right courses. And if you think there are specific areas where we can include, introduce courses or where we can provide support for students, please do let us know, we will provide any help that is possible from our side. Okay, so this is the active local chapters in the sense that there are at least 25 candidates who were present for the exam which was conducted for the Jan 2022 term. So that's roughly 20% of the total active, so this has reduced during the pandemic time, I think it was around 40% of the LCs which were there in the 18, 19 period. And then it has come down now to 20%. We hope more LCs are more actively involved and we will be able to get more students into the exam registration. Yeah, the number has also gone down in the 2021, but yeah, it's, I think the pandemic also had an impact on the number of people who are taking exams and so on. So I think, yeah, the number, total number of LCs has actually been increasing every year. So that's one of the reasons for this. So we need to probably engage a little bit more with the current LCs to ensure that the active LC number and percentages go up. That's probably something we'll be working on. So yeah, so some things from our side is also needed. We will work on that. The pandemic had, as we said, already two and a half years we have not met you and we are meeting you after that. So we will be hopefully be able to have some of these more regularly and that way we'll be able to engage a little more effectively. So I think with that, I'll hand it over to Bharti. So thank you all for being here. So Bharti will go ahead with this. So before we go on to the plaque distribution, I'd just like to call upon Hari Priya. Yeah, she's completed a domain in programming so I thought it's a nice opportunity to introduce and maybe just get some feedback on how they did it and any thoughts from her side as a student, please. Hello everybody. So I'm Hari Priya. Actually currently doing PG degree in MOP Varshanap College for MENCHA and I. Also, incidentally doing the IIT, BSA online degree. So... Yeah, sure. So actually I started NPTEL in 2018. I joined BSA in computer science. So that was when my father introduced me to NPTEL. So he's been a fan of these IIT lectures which he used to get CDs. He told me that he used to get CDs from IIT Madras and so when NPTEL came he suggested me. So in 2019 was this domain introduced. So before that I used to do two courses per SEM. As a normal thing there was no credit for anything in my college. It's just for the sake of knowledge that I did. And in 2019 my domain was introduced. There was mail that suggested me that you have done some courses in this domain and that's when I started doing programming. It went a little slowed down because I had to do many other courses so it took me some years to finish this. But I think overall it gave me a whole picture I could say because the way it is curated, the course, it was curated it gave me a wider picture because the scope of the NPTEL course was definitely more than what my college could offer in terms of exposure I would say. So it was also a kind of reinforcement learning because I was doing my computer science degree in BSE and at the same time I was doing this programming domain. So it gave me a very overall picture and I can say that I definitely increased the, let me say the scope and yeah, so definitely I'm also planning to do other domains in this now because I'm doing the IIT degree also it's a little difficult but yes it gave me a background on what to expect from an IIT education because for a person who has not even had an engineering background it definitely set the background and I could see what to expect and what to not be satisfied with just this and it made me extend my limits. So I really thank NPTEL for this and yeah, hopefully planning to do more courses here and thank you, thank you. Yeah, I'd also like to invite Vandana who's finished her domain in biosciences so something different we'd also like to hear from you. Good afternoon everyone. So I'm SU Vandana. I'm currently doing my final year in BTEC biotechnology from VIT Vellore and I have taken up this NPTEL domain scholar in biosciences. It had around three core courses and I completed around five elective courses. So the major purpose why I took domain scholar especially in biosciences is that it gives me a very good conceptual background to learn the subject very well. Besides I'm also a gate aspirant. I was able to crack gate in my third year with a decent rank. That's mainly because of NPTEL I would say and in the future also if I want to like write SOPs or apply for a master's program I feel NPTEL domain through biosciences would definitely help me especially in research. Thus I would like to thank NPTEL and all the IITs and IISC for giving me this wonderful opportunity. It gives me a huge confidence over the subject. That's it, thank you. Yeah, so incidentally I think the other people we have here today are also bioscience domain scholars. I don't know if they are still here in the audience. Dr. Vali Nachiar, are you there? Yes ma'am, can you come and maybe just share your experience? And the other scholar is Inba Tamil. Okay, yeah. Good evening to all present here. I am Dr. Vali Nachiar from Satyabhama University. I started this NPTEL course just for learning experience. It was going on but suddenly I got a mail from NPTEL. You are very close to domain. You please move towards that. Then whenever I go slow, my students will drag me in, ma'am we will do this, we will do this like this along with my student I am learning. So it is a very pleasurable, enjoyable experience for me. I thought I will be coming here with my students but they missed. Unfortunately few of my students missed. Next time a group of my student will be coming here to receive the domain scholarship. That time I should be allowed to come inside I think. Thank you, thank you so much. Good afternoon. I'm very, very glad to be here as a part of this fellow station event. First of all I convey my gratitude to the NPTEL organizers and the entire team who has been encouraging the entire learning community whether it's going to be the faculty or the students. We all belong to the learning community and NPTEL is still encouraging and is offering a lot of services and we are really proud of that. And being a domain scholar I've been actually into NPTEL only recently 2019. And one year I was out of this track. But suddenly actually I have to thank my ma'am, my colleague Dr. Valinacir. She has been a source of inspiration. She has been backing up the entire team of faculty and the students. So thank you ma'am for making us to be feel proud about this particular fellow station event to be a part of that and to be a domain scholar and we are encouraging the students also. It has been a teamwork actually. So students are also along with us. So it is a motivation not only from the faculty the students are motivating the teachers and we thank the NPTEL for all this. Thank you. Okay, so we come to the interesting last part of today's event, which is health-stating the SPOCs and the local chapters that have done really well in the JAN 2022 semester, the top local chapters. Yes, so I invite Professor Andrew, Professor Pratap Haridas who is the official representative of the IIT Madras today being the Dean Academic Courses. Director is away on travel and he could not come. He sent his wishes in this morning saying that he should definitely make it next time to some other event whenever that's possible. So Professor Pratap will be representing the Institute here today. I invite Professor Andrew, Professor Vignesh, Professor Ramakrishna to be here. Along with Professor Madhavan, please do give away the plaque certificates as we keep calling out the names. So maybe on top, yeah. Photo Balaji, that's okay, right? Yeah, sure. People won't, will have space to come. This can't move. I couldn't run because I know to read, no? I'm trying with it. Photo Varda Pataku, light Pataku. Light is okay Karthik. Okay, people coming on stage just be a little careful the stage width is a little less as you go in to receive your certificates maybe. Just be careful here. There is a speaker and stuff. And the speaker at the Lama Balaji. You move Panidai. So for the sake of completeness, I'm gonna read out the 100 local chapters, the top 100, but then we'll call out people as they come in so that it's there on record. We are streaming today and there's only time we do it Andrew, so don't grip. So Netaji Subbas, University of Technology, New Delhi, we'll start off with the top 10 first which have gotten ratings of AAA with NPTEL for the JAN 2022 semester. So NSUT Delhi, Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, Shastra Deem to be University, Tanjaur, Chandigarh University, Punjab, NIT Patna, RVR JC College of Engineering, Guntur. We invite the SPOC, Mr. MVP Chandrasekar Rao to kindly come on stage. Next is PSG College of Arts and Science. Just be careful. We have Mr. Shiv Kumar of PSG College of Arts and Science. Then we have JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA Haryana, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and GLA University, Mathura. So these are the 10 local chapters that get the triple rating. We are starting the next 40 with the double rating. VIT University, Mr. Govinda, he's not here, I think with us. Next comes Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad. Invite Sivithya Devi to kindly come on stage. Next would be RV College of Engineering, Bangalore. We invite, I think RV College. Oh, you're not, okay ma'am. Let somebody come out. Then we have Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad College of Engineering, Pune. Next comes Christ, deemed to be University, Bangalore. Mr. Vinay, we invite you on stage, please. I'm going to go behind me, that's better. Next is Pondicherry Technological University. We invite Ms. Vijay Lakshmi. So many of these colleges have been with us for many, many years, I think. Ma'am and all has been with us for like six, seven years now. So Mr. Shiv Kumar, RVR JC and all have been with us for multiple years now. Next is Vignanth Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, Guntur. Mr. Jakeer Hussain, we invite you on stage, please. Next is SRM University, Guntur, Kongu Engineering College, E-Road, Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu and Kashmir. Okay, sorry, we have Kongu Engineering College, SPOC here, Mr. Navanita Krishnan. We have Government College of Engineering Technology, Jammu and Kashmir. TRIPLE IT, DM, Kanchipuram. Then we have SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. We have Mr. Seturaman with us today. Then we have Nite Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Swami Kesavanan Institute of Technology Management and Gramodhan Jaypur. We have with us in person, Sri Venkateshwara University College of Engineering, Mr. Uma Maheshwara Reddy. Then we have Madhampali Institute of Technology and Science, Mr. Arulkumar here with us. Again, an institute which has been with us for I think seven years now. Next is Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. We have with us here, National Engineering College, Mr. K. Karunai Raghavan. So after a college in Coimbatore in 2015, NEC was the first ever workshop we did, I think, awareness. And from there it caught on when we went. So he and the principal had helped us then in 2015 April to actually conduct the first NPTEL awareness workshop at that time for MOOCs. So a strong support of NPTEL. Thank you, sir. Mepkosh Lank Engineering College, Dr. Shanta Selvakumari is here. Again, another strong partner for us the last couple of years. Masvi College of Engineering, VIT University, we have Mr. Pradeep Kumar here with us. This is VIT University Chennai. PSGR, Krishnamal College for Women, Bhartya Vidya Bhavan's Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. Next we have with us Sri Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore. Mr. Ganesh Prabhu is here with us. Kamlaneru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur. Mallad College of Engineering, Hassan. Ananda Babu is here with us. Next we have Anamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Rajampit. Mr. Kishore Kumar is here with us. New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore. University Department, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota. Next we have with us Laki Reddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Myla Varam. Mr. Pavan Chand. Oh, he hasn't come. Okay, University of Madras. Okay, so University of Madras. They are not here. University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata. Gogde Institute of Technology, Belgavi. National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. We have with us SRM University, Ramapuram, Mr. Madhavan. Again, somebody who's associated with us, I think for seven years now, 2015? I can start. 14, okay, 14. Then we have Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada. Mr. Rajesh is here. We have Pandit Dindeyal Petroleum University next and with us we have Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Ms. Rajeshwari. Then we have SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kanchipuram, Karuna Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore. Tehspur University, Tehspur, Assam. Muzafarpur Institute of Technology, Muzafarpur, Bihar. Then we have Rajalakshmi Engineering College, represented by Mr. Bhaskar here. Then we have Bhardiyar University, Coimbatore. We have in person here Ms. Latha of RMK Engineering College. Then we have MIT Academy of Engineering Pune, Velalar College for Women E-Road. Then we have with us Mr. Pundraj of Ishwari Engineering College. Then we have Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, Bharat Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai. We have with us Mr. Narayan Swamy of Rewa University. Okay, so on behalf of him, Mr. Deepak is here to receive the... Then we have Government College of Engineering, Yavatmal Maharashtra. We have Ms. Chaya Lakshmi from Basaveshwar Engineering College. We had gone for the workshop here. I think that was one of the last we probably did in 2019, December, Karnataka. After this was Gulbarga that we did, so. Okay, after this we have TKM College of Engineering, Kullam, Sidharth Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chittur, Sona College of Technology, Salem. And then we have with us, Rakesh Roshan of RGUKT, Basra. So I think the one place where we have seen a huge Saraswati Temple in Basra. That was something unique about that town with the beautiful river that they have. So next we have GIT University, Gunapur, Odisha, ABS Institute of Technology, Ghazia Bagh, Bhagalpur College of Engineering, Bhagalpur, KIT Group of Institutions from Ghazia Bagh, University of Engineering and Management, Jaypur. Next we have Mr. Rajesh Kanna of NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore. Then we have Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. And next we have with us Ms. Tamil Selvi of Holy Cross College. We have Amiti University, Noida, Sagi Ramakrishnam Raju Engineering College, Bhima Varam, Savita Engineering College, Chennai. She Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Kanchipuram. Vignan's Nirula Institute of Technology and Science for Women, Guntur. She Manakula Vinayakar Engineering College, Pondicherry. Institute of Management and Information Technology, Katak. Loknayak Jayaprakash Institute of Technology, Chhaprabihar. Dr. Vishwanath Karad, MIT World Peace University, Pune. ABS Engineering College, Ghazia Bagh. Katihaar Engineering College, Katihaar Bihar. Laila Institute of Business Administration, Chennai. And we have with us M. Kedarmalik of Vasiredi Venkatadri Institute of Technology, Guntur. We have Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Ernakulam, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences, Vishakapatnam. NIT, Tadipalli Gudam, Andhra Pradesh. Laila Academy, Hyderabad. Madan Mohan Malabiya University of Technology, Gurakpur. Darbhanga College of Engineering, Darbhanga Bihar. Goa College of Engineering, South Goa. MS Ramaya Institute of Technology, Bangalore. And we have with us Ms. Bhuvaneshwari from Kaveri College for Women, Pritchi. In the last in the top 100 will be Mr. Kartikin from SRM University. Mr. Kartikin. We also have Ms. Vijaya apparently who's come from Savita Engineering College. So I think we didn't have her on the list. So with that we come to the end of the top 100. We'd like to go for the special category certificates that we have. There are award in five different categories that we've added to this particular top 100 in the active local chapters. So we have recognizing new LCs that is in the last six months you should have become an LC and then we see whether you have entered the top 100 or the top, you become an LC recently and you're the top three outside of the top 100 that we have something. Then we have the best faculty participation, the max number of faculty also participating in courses and writing exams. Then we have LCs that show the maximum improvement. If you have participated last semester and the semester before, we just see what is the improvement in rating points and we are recognizing the top three in both categories. LC showing improvement in terms of number of certifications. That's also something that we are recognizing. And of course on demand, I got a few more requests today, but still arts and science, we put it out as a separate category and we're also recognizing the top institutes there. So coming to this set of categories, we will start with this one. Okay, so we have special categories here. I'm just going to read out whoever is here not the entire list. So yeah, yeah, there are people coming. So we have RMD engineering college getting registered in the special category. Okay, you haven't put the category here. I know, what is the category that you have to see? Roundelima. Okay, so there is a different order that she's giving me. What should I read? I should just read this one. Okay, the person, we don't have the person. Okay, so RMD engineering college spot, please come over for the rating points. I think you're getting a special category certificate. Yeah, so outside of the top 100, I think within the top 100, the rating point improvement has been NSOT, Chandigarh University and College of Engineering Pune. Outside top 100, it is Savita School of Engineering, RMD engineering college and Sanjeevni College of Engineering. Yeah, we have with us RMD engineering college spot from Tirvalur. Okay, then we have with us some LC stars that we are recognizing where there are local chapters that have performed consistently over every semester. So we thought we should also recognize them because every semester you've been in the top 100 or so. So this time we took the last 11 semesters and we said that if you have been in the top 100 for seven semesters, at least then we identify you as an LC star. We started this last semester when we gave it out. So in person we have here RMD engineering college spot from Tirvalur. They have been consistently in the top 100 for seven out of 11 semesters. Congratulations. The other institutes are of course IEM Calcutta, Laki Reddy, Bali Reddy College, VIT University Chennai, Trip LIT DM Kanchipuram, Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, J.C. Bose, University of Science and Technology. So we call upon Laki Reddy, Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Myla Varum Spock to also come to receive the special certificate. They haven't come. Okay, VIT University Chennai. Okay, this is a category for top new local chapters that have entered the 100. Like in the last semester, we wouldn't have had them in the 100 and now you enter the top 100. Or outside the top 100, we start again the rating and we see who are the first three new local chapters that have actually come out well in the rating. So we have here with us St. Joseph's College Spock, which is an art science and commerce college from Trichy in this category. So outside in the top 100, we didn't get any shuffling or change. We didn't have any new entries. There's outside of the top 100 that we are recognizing them. Which is remains on the slide. Okay, so we also thought we should recognize colleges that have more number of domain scholars. So that was another thing just to encourage that most students and faculty do domains. This was one thought that we had. So we have some colleges here with us whose representatives are here with us. Muthi Amal Engineering College Namakal, yeah. BH NSN College, Vidinagar. The Spock has income, I think. You have the certificate? BH NSN College, Vidinagar. So they have two domain scholars in this particular semester. So every semester we take the count and we are just saying who has gotten it. Muthi Amal College had three domain scholars this time. Satya Mama, we'll just wait. We'll check whether the certificate is there, okay? Next we have the next category, which is NPTEL stars. So we are also seeing which local chapters have more number of NPTEL stars in a particular semester. That's something we're tracking again. We have these five local chapters that we have mentioned here. We have representatives from RV College of Engineering. It's not on this list, is it? Am I reading it correct? Okay, we come to the next category, which is top three art science colleges. Inside the top 100, we have top three art science and colleges that we have identified. PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, PSG R Krishnamal College for Women, Vellalar College for Women. They are in the top 100. These are top three inside the top 100. Outside, we have Ratham College of Arts and Science, Krishna Arts and Science College, CMR Technical Campus. Did you find Satya Mama? Okay, I'm sorry for the mispronunciation. Andrew just corrected me. It's Vellalar College of, yeah. Sorry about the mispronunciation. Okay, while we search for the Satya Mama College certificate, we'll just locate it. I think we didn't have the name. Hence, you got it? Okay, Satya Mama College, can you please? Satya Mama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. This is for domain scholars that we have them here. Okay, I think we've come to the end of, anybody here who has not given a name and we should have a certificate or a plaque for you, I'm not sure. Please do contact us, but other ways, I think we have a complete of everyone here. Coming to the last part, which is introducing our team that we do once a semester, we think there's a right opportunity. Please be there so that you can have a team photo. Please, please. Press the mother and please. So we think it's the right time to showcase all the people behind who stay in our office, who do all the work, who interact with you, interface with you, reply to your emails to your calls. Maybe we don't reply to your emails and calls also, but we are here in the office, we are working on it. So that's there. They coordinate exam operations, portal operations, SWIM, local chapter, industry operations, off-skill training, everything. I would like the entire team to kindly come up here. I think maybe we can, you can occupy the space below or something. Let's see how to space ourselves. The first team that comes on stage is Lakshmi Priya. She leads the entire SWIM portal coordination, inter-office, the course coordination, all the assignments you see, content you see, everything, she's in charge of that. Her team, she's supported by Revati, Durga Rao, Lavanya, Padma Priya, Praneet, Yuvaganesh, Krithika, Selvi and Uday. Uday is not here, but the others should be here. Revati and all, Lakshmi. Ask them to, Ravi, can you please ask the team to come in? Two minutes only, they have. Okay, next we have the coding team, the website nptel.ac.in and all the features that you see, supported on it as well as elan.nptel.ac.in that you see, that is newly created. This team comprises Swarna, who just recently moved on to another organization, she's not here with us. Otherwise it's Satya, Niveda, Chitra, Niveda S again, Rudra and Akilesh. So can you all please come forward, near the stage? Coding team, portal team we've already called you, please come forward, coding team, please come forward. So as you can see, they've done a color coding today of some red with maroon and all the entire team is like, danger zone, don't come near kinds, so yes. Okay, then we have the team that is kind of, we keep hidden, we expose them only this once or twice a year. The question paper exam creation team, who works with all the faculty and puts it into TCS software as you see it. It's headed by Anita. We have Anupriya, baby Shalini, Purnika, Purnima, Raghavi and Vinodini. We had Maria with us so far, she's taken a small break, she should be back soon, but otherwise this is a team here that you see for questions and exam preparation team. So we call them the QP team, yes. And next we have the accounts team, they handle all the entire MHRD funding that we get the exam fees, reconciliation, all the other, whatever finances have to move through us through the administration and all that. So this is by Sangita, Murali, Surya, Divya Devi, Santosh, Tanga Perumal. Can you all please come forward? Miss Surya? You always get missed out, ask him to come. Okay. Next is the text transcription team, which is headed by Geeta, who also plays a role in the industry side of it. Geeta, Priyadashani, Chandralika, Shyamala and Pavitra. They do the transcription coordination to get it from vendors, put it as subtitles on the YouTube that you see. Then we have the translation team headed by Niveda N. Exam, okay. So we have an exam going on today and tomorrow, I think Niveda is there. Naseema, Sam, Benin, Sujata also support the translation team with Arunima. I think many of them are proctoring the exam today, right? So they are up in the office. Okay. The designer Ramesh, so all the posts you see on WhatsApp, we put whatever we put on social media, course posters, brochures, everything is done by Ramesh. We had Rajesh so far, he's moved on. Ramesh has taken his place now. Raghav is in charge of exams with Divya and Kamala, but he's also proctoring today. He's not there. The gate portal is headed by Anita. Anita Mani, she's here. Anita, Amrita and Jason. Can you please come forward? Okay, then we have a HR person newly brought in, Ms. Lakshmi Priya, can you please come forward? Okay, the industry side of it is handled by Balrajoo, Geeta and Pavitra. Support team, many of them do support emails, but dedicated support is given by Anusya and Jayashree. Workshops are handled by Anupama and Aishwarya. Anupama is not here, is Aishwarya there, please come forward. The exam complete coordination within India and outside India are done by Divya, Aishwarya, Jay Murugan and Preeti Ashokan, who also handle the local chapter interactions. Anything to do with local chapters, WhatsApp groups, emails, everything is done by them. Okay, Nivedas, exam to auntia. Okay, so yeah, we'd like to also call upon Devasena and Madhu, who are our major support staff along with Sagar, who keep the office in its place. They clean it up, they open it, close it, give us all our stuff. I think Sagar is there, Sagar, please come forward. Devasena, Madhu, if you're there, please come forward. So he literally does not go home at all. He's in the office from, I think, 7 a.m. till about 2 a.m. and all, he'll be there. When we were having renovation work in the office, he was sleeping in the office and saying, no, no, I can't leave it. Can you come forward? Kamla, there's some more there. We have some interns also who have joined the team recently, please come forward. Hopefully, you will be part of the team, so I would like to put that confidence and call you for this. So Balaji, all your team is here. Surya has come. Pickpandliya, call Pickpandliya, okay. How come it's team Paniyaji? And of course, Kamla and I co-managed the NPTEL operations. So Kamla's there. All of you must know Kamla. She handles the entire NC operations exam and hiring recruitment HR for us and I'm Bharti. So thank you. Done? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you team. I think we can step off the stage. Coordinators just be there. We'd like a photo with the domain scholars with you. The team can probably move. The domain scholars who are there, can you come on stage? We'd just like a photo of you all with the coordinators. Any other domain scholars? We don't have Andrew Wignation or just two. With the domain scholars, we thought we'll just take a photo with them. Yeah. Yes, all domain scholars please come. Those who we didn't call also. We had some list we had invited from Chennai, but please, anybody who's completed, please do come. And we'll have them after this also. If anybody wants to take photographs, you're most welcome to come and you can keep clicking. So we are keeping that open. Yeah, please. Yes, please, please, most welcome, please. So last month we had this BSE relate, please, sir, go in front. If your girls are young, you can actually kneel down. You'll get a better photo, maybe. So last month we had this BSE event where some 2,200 students came to IIT Madras campus and we were hosting them for about four days. So we had a lot of these selfies there. We had like thousands of selfies being taken with the faculty. Balaji, screen off, Paneetumma. Close Paneetumma. Thank you. So thank you all. We come to the close of the event. Lunch is being served in the same hall that you can do. Any bill settlement you have to do, please do it outside. And we'll also meet you here. If you have any queries, our team is available. Please do reach out to us and we'll also be able to help you with that. Thank you all.