 NPTEL is today one of the biggest repositories of technical courses in engineering and sciences in the world. NPTEL to be very brief is a program started by eight partner institutions, seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The seven institutes were the original seven institutes in 2003, namely IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee and Indian Institute of Science of course. The national program on Technology Enhanced Learning or NPTEL in short provides free online course content in all major disciplines of engineering, sciences and humanities. We have more than 875 courses taught by some of the leading teachers in the country who are experts in their field. All these courses are available for access freely on the portal nptel.ac.in for anyone with an internet connection. These courses are freely accessible on the portal nptel.ac.in and are distributed under the Creative Commons CCBYSA license. NPTEL started in the year 2003 and over the past decade has established itself among college students and industry professionals as the go-to destination for high quality and in-depth coverage of all subjects in higher education. Our lectures have a global audience and we have had more than 240 million page visits so far. Students across the country use NPTEL course content to supplement their regular classes and enhance learning. In particular students preparing for the GATE examination have found NPTEL to be a resource of singular importance to aid their preparation. Our e-learning content consists of video lectures, text, extensive animations, assignment questions and other similar material. We have more than 18,000 hours of video of which more than 13,000 hours have been transcribed into English and those lectures are subtitled in English. In short, NPTEL invites you to visit the portal nptel.ac.in and enables you to learn for free from the leading teachers of the country who are in premier education institutions from the comfort of your home or office just using an internet connection. So, I used to think that even the children of my village would be able to do this kind of course. It was not possible at that time but now with the help of the help of the help of the satellite, the help of the help of the computer and the help of the internet, what has been learned through the use of NPTEL is truly a very big revolution. Now, good courses from far away, from Bihar-Urissa, Uttar Pradesh, Bangladesh, Nepal, to the villages, Himalayas, to the mountains, or to the jungles and regions of Sahara, can be translated as similar. There are more than 900 courses in NPTEL, most of them have come from engineering sciences, there are many courses from science, from physics, chemistry, mathematics, and many other courses have come from humanities as well, from humanities subjects, from human sciences, from social sciences, from language science, from English, how to read, write, learn. There are many types of courses, you can see them and take advantage of them. Now, there is no point in saying that I am far away, I do not have these courses , how would I do it? Now, only the need for desire and NPTEL, to fulfill your desire, it is obligatory to give it a square and a round shape. From March 2014, NPTEL has embarked on a new effort called NPTEL online certification. Through this model, we offer open online courses for anyone with an internet connection. These courses are truly open, there is no qualification criteria, there is no classification, there is no admission procedure, all that is needed from the student is an interest to learn and an internet connection. The portal that we use is onlinecourses.nptel.ac.n. On the portal, you will find 20 hour courses that run over a period of 8 weeks and 40 hour courses that run over a period of 14 weeks. These courses have weekly assignments that have to be submitted and video lectures and very interesting course material. There is a discussion forum in which you can participate and exchange ideas with your other students. We have seen that in the whole of India, many colleges have been opened where aeronautical engineering is taught. We also know that we have shortage of faculty, shortage of resources, all these things have been kept in mind, this is an NPTEL online certification course, an adventurous step where we are developing a course in IIT Kanpur, where we will explain how a plane flies, what is the performance of an airplane, what is the difference between a good airplane and a bad airplane, how much height can we take, how much speed can we fly. The basic science is that we consider all these things as the base of the 11-12th standard, we want to talk to all the young generations and teach them, we want to share them as we have done in IIT Kanpur, after all the generations, the contributions and facilities that we have created in the faculty, we want to take out all those things and through this course we want to take all the young students who are doing aeronautical engineering in full benefit. Hi, we at Google have been working with NPTEL for the last 6 years, they have done an amazing job of bringing so much engineering education material online, they are the best hope for providing a high quality education to hundreds of thousands of Indians. First of all I must congratulate IIT's for taking this initiative to take education on the contents that they have as part of NPTEL to all the people, particularly the student community who can benefit a great deal. Learning in a platform like this is by itself I think an extremely satisfying experience because you are learning from the best faculty, you are benchmarking yourself against your peers and lastly you have the satisfaction of completing a necessary part of your information technology learning on one of the best ways to learn it in a 21st century model. As part of NPTEL's online certification program, I got the opportunity to send my course to all the students of India, I am very grateful for NPTEL's work, and I think that the graduate program where KM Tech and Ph.D.K students come from the Indian University of Delhi, there is also a lot of potential for this program. As I was talking about NPTEL, I remember the words of Sanskrit, Pustakas ka vidya parhasth gatam dhanam, Pustak me jo vidya hain uska koi mahat nahi aur dosre ke haat me jo dhan hain uski koi mahatta nahi. NPTEL ne Pustakon me jo baate hain, un baaton ko un chhatronan tak paunchaane ka kaam kia hain. NPTEL nae Bharat ko ek nahi padhati se parhane ka kaam kar raha hain, aur iss padhati me bina koi fee liye, bina koi rasi liye agar siksha ka bikhandri karan ho raha hain, to decentralization of education ka iss se bara example iss se bara udharan aur kuch nahi ho sakta hain. Desh me hui electronic kranti ki vadalat ya sambhav usaka hain, ki achha se achha kurs jo bibhin IIT ke sahiyog se NPTEL ne record kia hain aur muft sabhi ko poori dunya me uplabd karaya hain, log iss ke saath jor sakte hain, register kar sakte hain, certification ka kurs le sakte hain aur NPTEL saath me ek certificate liye, jo jiski apne aap me bahut manetha hain, jis ka apna ek khas mahatoh hain. Definitely once you get hooked on to this particular process of learning, you will find that you can learn at your own pace and time and you will also be benefitted with a certification which is also what a case stamped by industry and therefore you will find it is an employment facilitator. IITs have got together to capitalize the assets that they have as part of NPTEL and make it available to the students, not only the current students but also students who have studied, who are working in the industry for them to refresh and for elders in the industry too who can benefit from all the changes that have happened in the areas of technology. At the end of the course you have an option if you have learnt well and mastered the subject to write an exam, physical exam, a proctored exam and at the end of the exam we give you a certificate and this certificate comes from the IITs which ran the course. So this is a valuable proposition for students and professionals out there looking to learn a subject and get some tangible outcome at the end of it for improving their careers. We have run in the past one year more than 57 courses and more than 7500 students have been certified through this process. I invite you to visit the portal onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in and benefit from NPTEL online certification. This program will be the harbinger of a big intervention in India in the area of online education so that we can address the grand challenge of providing high quality and useful education to a very very large number probably the largest number of youngsters in the world. Thank you.