 Good morning sir. Good morning. Yeah, the live series already started. Please start the introduction about the workshops. Okay. Sir, in your background soon I see. Hold on a second. Is it okay now? Yes sir. Okay, so what next to do? Sir, please introduce the workshop. I think I have not got any information regarding this earlier. Oh sir, we already send the mail. Now it's a live stream sir. Have you contacted the right person regarding this? Sir, wait a minute. Sir, the focus on internet issue. Could you please start that introduction sir? Ramakrishna colleagues sir? I have maharaj. Yeah sir, please start the introduction. Maharaj? Oh sir, that the colleagues talk about the internet issue. Could you please start the introduction? Yeah. Principal maharaj earlier maharaj. Oh sorry sir, I can't hear you properly. Yes maharaj, principal maharaj earlier. Yeah sir, principal can start now sir. Hello. Hello. Yes sir, please start. Can you hear me ma'am? Yes sir. Okay. Maharaj, you are muted maharaj. Your microphone is muted maharaj. Hello. Am I visible and audible? Yes sir, it's audible. Okay, so good morning everyone. And on behalf of Ramakrishna Mishan Vidya Mandira, Beloramat, West Bengal, today in this online awareness session, I welcome all the participants who are here in this Zoom platform and who join in the YouTube live. Well, regarding NPTEL, this is a unique initiative taken by MHRD long back. And as you know, since it is an awareness program, I hope number of young boys and girls students from different parts of this country are with us today in this beautiful session. So NPTEL, this entire online course, those who know, they know, but to inform, to share with all others, I must say, this is a very unique initiative taken by the MHRD. And here, seven IITs, along with the IIC Bangalore, are offering for years together wonderful, fascinating online programs. Not only this short term programs, there are a number of projects and other initiatives also. And it is needless to point out that faculty members and experts of different fields across the country, they are taking these courses. It is needless to point out also that the faculty members who are in different IITs and of course in ISE Bangalore are of very, very high achievement. They are definitely the finest experts in their particular field. So, as far as our, our college is concerned to share with you all. Initially, we were the local chapters. When we started this program, especially from my college, last, nearly last one decade, I saw that number of students, they enrolled this course. Initially, we were the local chapters. Gradually, the number of participants increased and our students, they could excel in such a way, we became the golden partner of the Sensitial Program in 2019. And still it is going on, especially to add, during this pandemic last two and a half years, I don't know whether now we are in position that we are completely out of this pandemic or not. So, this NPTEL program was of wonderful use for the students. And additionally, as for the circular of university grant commission, no, different institutes, they took this grade. Suppose some students that appeared for took some courses, NPTEL and successfully completed the course, that grade, according to that extra credit, many institutes as per the guidelines of UGIS, they could accumulate it to their final markship. So, from my experience, I can tell all the students, those who are here with us joined an online platform of school, colleges, this NPTEL, definitely I must include one more program. There is also here in this platform. So I request all the students of different discipline, different streams that first you browse and you join, you participate this online program as much as possible. You have your own choice, own take, so get it enrolled. And one more beautiful thing is that appearing for the exam, suppose one student is enrolled to a particular course, it is not mandatory all the time that he has to appear for the exam in that. So, for attending courses, classes, fascinating courses, you know, multiple, from different disciplines, students can, bottom students can enroll. So, with this, I once again, thank the organizer for conducting such a wonderful meeting today and giving me the opportunity to address, to give the welcome address in this key awareness program. Once again, thank you all and I request my dear students of different disciplines of different colleges, universities, and other institutes. I request them that you be associated, enroll yourself and get benefited out of this wonderful online training and different courses. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Okay, so many of you may be familiar with this logo. This is the NPTEL logo. We'll start off with it. So NPTEL is today a lot of initiatives put together. It's not just about creating courses and putting it up on the website. But we have certification, not just certification for one course, but it is courses IT transfer. I was just talking to Dr. Satish Chhonsa about whether you may be familiar with this. Maybe we should try to see whether students can get credit transfer or not. The course NPTEL is today a lot, even if you don't get credit transfer, it's not just about creating courses and putting it up on the website. But we have certification, not just certification for one course, but it is students in your society, correct? So we will say that we have a lot of programming transfers. We have programs talking to you. Maybe we should try to see whether students can get credit transfer or not. The course NPTEL is today a lot, even if you don't get credit transfer, it's not just about creating courses and putting it up on the website. But we have certification, not just certification for one course, but it is students in your society, correct? So we will say that wherever you go to any company, we have programs talking to you. Maybe we should try to see whether students can get credit transfer or not. The course NPTEL is today a lot, at least something about it, okay? That is the first part. The other thing, okay, what are the other courses we have that is useful for you? If you're planning for higher education, you want to go in for a master's degree. Supposing you want to strengthen your fundamentals, your foundations. You want to maybe do some more courses from other institutes so that you're confident when you're attending interviews. Those courses will be available on NPTEL. So we have all the UG undergraduate courses. You can go through that. You don't even have to write the exam for each of these courses. You can just go through the videos. You can try solving problems. You can watch many videos, try to get knowledge from it and strengthen your foundation. So if you're going for higher education, I would say the courses are really useful. So first thing I'll say, try something like programming courses. When you go in for higher education, probably you want to try and strengthen your fundamentals. The third thing, try to learn something that is of interest to you, which you possibly cannot learn otherwise. For instance, we have courses on German language teaching you German. Teaching you Japanese. Teaching you Sanskrit. So if you want to learn any of these, you can come to NPTEL and learn. So for instance, German is taught only by maybe the Goethe Institute and maybe some other institutes. Here the same course is taught, but it is free for you. And if you want a certificate, you can write the exam. But otherwise too, you can learn the German language for free. Same thing, you can learn Japanese language via these useful. Maybe you go to a company that has branches in Germany, Japan. They have opportunities for people to go there, but you need to know the language. So at that point, this becomes very useful for you. So you can try to learn other languages also through NPTEL courses. Okay, maybe you're technically very strong. You have good foundations. You have good knowledge in your particular program. But maybe your English is not very good. Hence you're not confident about speaking. You have a lot of courses like soft skills development, soft skills enhancement, how to attend an interview, the body language that you have to have when attending an interview, interpersonal communication skills, leadership skills. So we have a lot of courses like this that you can also go through. It will give you a lot of tips on how to present yourself, how to ready yourself for such situations. So that having the knowledge, you can also be confident when you talk to somebody and you are presenting or being in an interview. So that's another set of NPTEL courses that we have as part of what we offer. So anybody who wants to learn, I think should be able to get at least two or three courses of their interest that they can join and learn. Joining is free, like I said. There is no fee at all. It is all completely free and you can watch it. There are no live classes. These are all recorded lectures. So you can watch at your convenience. If your college time is say 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or something, in the evening you have time, you can sit and watch NPTEL lectures. On Saturday, Sunday you can watch it. There will be one assignment every week. You have to solve the assignment and you have to submit it. So that also you get 10 days of time. So you can watch the lectures. You can try solving the assignment. Maybe a couple of you friends are joining the same course. You can all sit together. You can learn from each other. You can solve together, take help from your teachers and you can do the NPTEL courses. So there is no such thing as there will be live lectures. Maybe you will miss a few lectures because you have college or something. It is all video lectures along with assignment. So the first part is credit transfer and learning from our courses. Apart from it, if you do very well, maybe we should go to next slide. So this is the credit transfer. I don't want to discuss too much about this because I think your university doesn't have credit transfer. So I will skip this slide. So credit transfer just as a piece of information for maybe the faculty who are out here. IATs do do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. We do it at the BTEC level. We do it at the master's level for PhD working professionals for them to get credit transfer also. We do it. So IATs also do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. It is not just the outside colleges that have to do ourselves do credit transfer from NPTEL courses. This is an important thing I would say. So we have a program by which the toppers in the courses actually get internship opportunity with the faculty in the IATs. So whoever has offered that course, they take it normally about two, three, five interns during summer or winter if you're a topper in the course. So if you do a course very well and you become a topper in the certification course, then we give you an opportunity to intern with the faculty. So we are trying to scale up these numbers. COVID hit us also so we could not get them. But we hope it will be at least 200, 300 students who can intern at the IATs with the faculty. So this is a wonderful opportunity for you to come and stay in the city, be in the IAT Madras or IAT Kanpur or IAT Kharagpur or IAT Bombay lab. You get to interact with the faculty members there. You interact with their PhD scholars there. You can do all of this, which will be wonderful if you're especially thinking about going for higher studies. You'll get the idea of what is done in these institutes. I think it's a really good opportunity for students outside of the IATs to come in and experience the IATs here. So there is internship. Then we also do soft skill training. So there are many colleges who provide it on their own, but there are also some colleges who do not have this training for the students. So if college students in local chapters, they participate in NPTEL courses, then for those students, we are providing soft skill training. So this training is of two types. We do a one-week training or we do a two-week training depending on how much time the student can spare and the college also wants the students to do. So here we have group discussion practice. We ask you to write your resume and we give input on the resume. We ask you all to present about yourselves, give feedback about how you should talk, where you should look, your body language and so on. And there are also a one-on-one. Like every student will get half an hour with a trainer to discuss about how they should also do. So the right side photo you see is a one-on-one where we do mock interviews. We try to simulate an interview and see how you're responding and then give feedback on how you should do better in your interview. So we do soft skill training for students who do NPTEL courses. So this is something that we do from NPTEL again. If you look at numbers, we have finished soft skill training for more than 2000 students currently and we are doing about 10 colleges a month and we hope to scale it up. So if you're... I don't know if Pedderpally College has done it, but yes, we can extend it to y'all also and we can get it done. Okay. So there's a seven or 14-day training program that I was talking about next. Okay. So somebody was asking, will we get jobs with these NPTEL courses? How is it helpful to us and so on? When we do surveys of NPTEL students and where they have gotten placed, these are the companies that they have gotten placed so far. This is like some of the companies are on. It's not all the companies that they've gotten placed for, but they have said that the NPTEL courses have really helped them when they went for the interviews. When they show a certificate to the interviewer and say, I did a course with the IITs. I got so much marks in that course. It really does help in the job. In the job interview. So those people also ask questions on that, assuming you've studied well and you can answer, it will definitely help you that outside of the college syllabus, you have done something more to learn and skill yourself. Also, companies approach us and ask us, do we have students in particular areas that we can send them their resumes? So we also collect resumes of students on our site and if they're interested, we send these out to the companies and the companies call them for interviews, go through their levels of recruitment. And we have been able to place NPTEL students from our side also in some companies. So we are still working on it. I hope this will increase. We are talking with more companies on this front. But otherwise, even if you have like two or three courses from NPTEL and the certificates for it, I think it will be hugely useful because of the logos we put on the certificate. Yeah, the next one, there are a lot of students, learners, faculty who do multiple courses with us. There are people who do the courses, maybe they do three courses in a semester, four courses in a semester. They are toppers into a three courses every semester. There are people who have done a lot of courses with us. I'll maybe show you the data in the next one. But this is another type of recognition we give to NPTEL learners. So you can go to NPTEL website and at the top we have a link called NPTEL stars. So click on that link, click on any of this. You will see how many people are actually doing multiple courses with us. So if students are thinking, oh, I don't have time and I'm so busy, I can't do it. You should just see these pages to see how come these people who are working professionals, who are students in colleges just like you, or who are maybe studying or faculty or something, how are they able to get the time to do so many courses? If they can get the time, I think anybody can get the time. You just have to manage your time on when you're going to study and not waste time on something else that is not important, et cetera. So this page I would say, please go and see. So these are the kind of domain scholars, NPTEL stars, evangelists and all we have. We have more than about 3,000, as I can just calculate on the fly that we are going to have these people doing multiple courses and they are NPTEL stars with us today. So there is something called domain certification that we have currently come up with in the last two years. So what is a domain? So a domain we have created just to club courses together and maybe about five or six courses we have put together. And we say that if you study this six courses and you get more than 60 in the course, in each course, not just pass it by getting a 40, then you get a domain scholar certificate. So why is this important? This is important because it shows that you have specialized in a particular area. So for instance, we have a programming domain. So in the programming domain, we have courses such as C, C++, Python, database management course and then maybe cloud computing course and so on. So if you do a programming domain and you do all the six courses, it shows that you have a solid foundation in this particular area. So when you go for an interview and you actually show a domain certificate versus just one or two certificates from us, that will make more of an impact on the interviewing person. So this is something we recommend. It is more just to guide students on what to study to become and specialize in one particular area. We found that many NPTEL learners do four or five courses, but they do random courses that are not connected to each other. So this domain will guide you in what to study if you want to specialize in a particular area. We have about 53 domains today in all branches of engineering, management, English and for faculty, we have a faculty domain basic and advanced also so that you can also go through that part of it. So you can go to our website. There are more details on domains there. We can talk about it later too. So these are some of the domains we have. So for you, it might be relevant. The English studies, we have a domain. Management, we have it in marketing, operations, patents and intellectual property and economics and of course engineering and all we have a couple of domains. So if you're a general student, not an engineering student, I would recommend the programming domain for you. If you want to try out something, do the programming domain or do the management domain, that would be really useful for you. So if you're an engineering student, of course you can try any of the domains relevant in your particular discipline of engineering or you can do a cross-discipline. So for instance, I'm maybe mechanical engineer. I like electrical engineering. You can actually do the courses in electrical engineering and you can get a domain from there. So here nobody stops you and says, hey, you're in mechanical engineering department. You cannot study electrical engineering, say power systems course, power electronics course. You're not allowed to study that. There is no such thing like that. Anybody can study any course as long as you can cope with it. So you can also do a cross department study by doing domains from any of what is listed here. This is what a domain certificate looks like. We give this, we list all the courses you have done and we assign it out of course from the specific IIT that we are moving from. So how do we do lab courses? Is it online? Not really. We do it in the institutes. We do it in various institutes such as ISERS, IIT. You can come here. You can stay for a week at the institute. You can do the lab experiments. You can listen to faculty giving one or two lectures in the day and then do a lab exam and take a certificate. So what is the advantage of this? You will get to see really modern labs. You will get to see what the state of the art labs are in these institutes. You can see the equipment that is there, the modern equipment that is there. You can see the advanced research that is happening here. You can interact and get explained on all this equipment. So we had very successful labs being run at all these places. This is a wonderful opportunity. Again, if you do the theory course in NPTEL, those people we will permit that you can apply and come for these lab certification courses and you can do the workshops here. So that was the idea behind the question we asked you. What else do we do at NPTEL? This is for faculty in colleges. So faculty in colleges under the AICT scheme, we explicitly have an MOU with them where NPTEL advanced courses, if you do and pass, you will get an AICT approved FTP certificate. So that is for faculty in AICT colleges. For those under the UGC scheme, they have given a broad guideline that if you do and swyme courses, there will be some career progression points. But the actual logistics, I'm not sure you'll have to check within your university. So that is something that is there. But we see that more than about 20, 30,000 faculty write our exams every semester and most of them apply for the FTP certificates also. This is very, very useful for faculty, I will say, because you don't have to spend money. You don't have to take leave. You don't have to miss your college work and go to some institute, stay for a week or stay for 10 days and then do an FTP course. You can do the FTP course online itself just like the students. You join for free on swyme portal. You go through the course submit assignments and then you pay the thousand rupees and attend the final exam and get your certificate. Once you get your certificate, you can apply for the FTP certificate to us and get that too. That's all it takes to do an FTP course with us today. So this is very important for faculty. I hope this is clear. This is what the FTP certificate looks like. You can see that it has the signature of the director from AICT also. There is a regulation under which they have approved this, the AICT logo is there. So this you can present when you are going in for your promotion interviews. The conversion that they do is a four-week NPTEL course is equivalent to half FTP of one week. An eight-week NPTEL course is a full FTP of one week and a 12-week course is equivalent to one and a half weeks FTP equivalent. So this is the equivalence of it. Yes, the next thing I wanted to talk about was gate coaching. So we have started a new link on our website and somebody has given us CSR money for developing this and providing whatever, I wouldn't call it coaching, but yes, gate preparation, whatever we can help students with to have and prepare for gate exams free. Again, we are trying to do from our side. So you can go here and we have given solutions to all the previous gate questions. We have given videos solving those questions. We have extra questions that are coming up, practice questions that will be coming up, small courses linking all the videos that are relevant to gate. So we will be coming up, phase one is only over, phase two and phase three we will be coming up within the next six months. So keep watching this link on NPTEL website if you are preparing for the gate exam. That is one new initiative we have come up with. The next initiative exams outside of India. So till 2020, we were doing exams only in India where you have to go to a center and you have to write it. And then we got a lot of requests from people outside of India saying they also study from NPTEL courses and they want to write exams with us. So now we help to do that also. People outside India can also write exams, NPTEL exams and get certificates from us. So translation is the next effort. So for people who are asking in what languages do we offer courses, the faculty teach only in English for now, but the English transcripts, we translate into eight languages. So we do Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Marathi. So that's the languages that we are translating it into. So Telugu, we have a lot of transcripts that are translated into Telugu language. So the faculty will talk in English, but you can also read what we have translated in Telugu or Tamil or Hindi, whatever is your language and you can understand it better. We are keeping the videos in English so that you also learn English because when you go to work somewhere, English will be the primary language you have to communicate in. So this is something we're doing. One of two courses we are getting in regional language. For instance, this time in January, we are doing a machine learning course in Tamil language. The faculty is going to teach in Tamil language. There is a signals and systems course that is coming out in Hindi language. In July semester, we are getting an R programming course in Hindi language. So only two or three we have most are in English. We don't have too many other language courses. So that's something you can check. Let me take a question from the chat. There are one or two saying I'm from Thomas background. I'm from B.com. What courses we can take? So for B.com students, we do have a lot of accounts related courses. You can check those out. Go to management department. I'll show you how to filter and learn from it. You can go there and you can see how to do it. So you can check out management related courses in which we have accounts related commerce economics related courses. That's something you can learn. Or if you're learning all that anyway in your college, right? I would strongly recommend programming courses for you all. Learn at least one programming language to know what is programming. How do people program? Whether you write the exam or not. I would say please write the exam. But yes, even if you don't write the exam, at least try a course. Do the assignment, see whether you can do something about it. Or if you're not doing that, I would propose the English courses. I would propose the German language or the Japanese language course that you can learn from. Those are what we have. Quite a few for you to choose from. I would say more than 100. We would have for B.com level students at least. Okay. Yeah. So these are translation. How many courses we have in each language? So in Telugu, we have 48 courses that are translated for now. So that's what we have, right? Okay. We have also something called special lecture series. So we also have industry people come in and present lectures. So these are again free to watch. Very interesting topics. Very, very distinguished people who come and present lectures. These are vice president, CEO, CTOs of companies like IBM, Capgemini, Infosys that we've had in the past. IAS officers who have come and spoken to us. Film directors who's come and spoken to us. Journalist in the Hindu, a director at Hindu entrepreneurs. So I would really say you should go and watch these lectures when you have time. Even if you missed it last year, it's okay. But listening to such people is very inspirational. You know what they have done, how they have worked, how they have brought up new companies, how they've started a company. Where did they get their idea from? These are all really interesting to listen to. I would say please go back and listen to some of these lectures. It will give you a tremendous amount of information, knowledge, and maybe there'll be some topic to talk about also. When somebody asks you something, it will widen your knowledge base. Okay. This is something that you can see. And if you're wondering saying how many students study, how many courses, right? Maybe you think some students study only one or two courses and that's all we can do. What is useful, right? Look at this. There is one learner who has done 47 NPTEL exams with us. That's as good as a degree program or more than the degree program that all of you are doing. How many courses you'll do there? I don't know. Maybe if you're doing a BSE, it's six into, six maybe 36 courses. Or if it's a BTEC also, if I say six courses per semester, it's about 48. So he's done equivalent to that. Okay. So there is one learner who's done 47 exams, 34 exams, 32 exams and so on. So you can see maximum people. Yes, 5.6 lakhs do one exam, but there are 1.4 lakhs who are doing two exams, 48,000 doing three. And if you look up to 10 exams even, right? A lot of them are doing 10 exams, eight exams with us. So maybe you should think about and plan for how you're going to study, which courses you're going to do as you are in college and every semester try to do at least one or two NPTEL courses and finish with a certificate. That will be really nice that you can do that with your college. Okay. This is something we wanted to say. Who are these people who are doing these courses? They are employed. They are faculty members. They are students. All people like you. So it's not like these people come suddenly from somewhere or they are also special. They are so privileged. Nothing like that. They are there in all towns in all kinds of environment. They also have their constraints, but they are also studying from these courses and doing multiple courses. Okay. This is what the certificate looks like. It has the Swyam logo and it has the, okay, it has the NPTEL logo. Then it has your photo on the certificate. It has, as you can see the elite tag, the gold medal, we just put it here to say, if you fall under these categories, you can see all these coming on your certificate. Then the institutes of IT Madras offers the course at the bottom where the institute logo and round this foot, you can see IT Madras logo there. IT Madras, the name will be put there. Signatures from our side will come and so on. So this is the way that you can see how the certificate looks. We had 20 lakh people who joined our courses in January semester. 20 lakhs who joined our July semester. And in 2021, we had 16 lakhs who joined the Jan semester. 16 lakhs who joined our July semester. So it's not 5,000. It's not 10,000. It's not one lakh like I'm seeing on the chat window here, but it is 16 lakhs who was our enrollment number last semester. Out of these exams, those who have written over the last five years, it is 15.1 lakh people have registered for exams with us and they've gotten. So our total enrollment in NPTEL today is 1.58 crores over the last seven years from when we are running this certification project. We have finished 3,500 courses almost and enrollment is 1.58 crores. 15 lakhs exam registration. That's the thing. So you can see how big NPTEL is. NPTEL is not something that we are doing 100, 200, 500 people or something like that. Every semester when we conduct exams in March and April, it's 3 lakh people who write our exams. So that's the level at which we do. We conduct exams all over the country in about 170 cities. We conduct exams outside India like we said. So this is our data. So somebody tells you, okay, I haven't heard of NPTEL. You should really tell them saying that 15 lakh people enroll every semester and 3 lakh people write exams. How come you're missing out? That's the answer I will give them. Okay. You can see a lot of feedback about NPTEL on our social media handles. We keep regularly posting about it. We are present on Instagram, on Facebook, on YouTube community. And you can see all the feedback that we have posted there about people have gotten jobs, people have gotten through the soft skill training, who have done our courses, course feedback, everything is available here. So do subscribe to our social media handle so that you can get updates from our site. Okay. I'll just give a brief on NPTEL local chapter because I don't know how many of you are faculty from different colleges who are not a local chapter with us. So NPTEL works with about 4,500 colleges today across the country. And we have coordinators in each of these colleges who are called a single point of contact or Sparks. And through them is how we are so successful. So thanks to all the local chapter Sparks, whoever is watching this workshop today was not watching the workshop today. Whoever is anywhere, they are the champions for NPTEL within the colleges. Without them, I don't think NPTEL would have grown so much. So thanks to all the Sparks of the local chapters. And I would like to just briefly say how you can become a local chapter. If there's somebody watching who's not at a local chapter. So to become an NPTEL local chapter, there is no money involved. There is no financial dealing. We just need to send us an email saying that you want to become a local chapter. There's a Google form in the website, fill it up. And we need a coordinator in your college who will be our local champion. So the head of the institution, the director, the principal, whoever has to send an email saying that we would like to become a local chapter and so and so will be the single point of contact for NPTEL. And that's all. Once we receive the email, we verify some details and we will make you a local chapter. So why should you become a local chapter? Can students and faculty from colleges who are not local chapters participate in NPTEL? Yes, totally. You can participate. You can be a free learner. You can learn from our courses without belonging to a local chapter. But having a local chapter in a college is a big advantage. There are logins that the single point of contact to the Sparks has. One is a login on Swyam portal. One is a login on our NPTEL website. And here they get information related to enrollment, exam registration, the marks, the transcripts, the certificates. All of this is given to the Sparks directly that they can actually see and they can share with their management. Also, the other benefits are if we don't have a center in your particular city, you can request for that. If they have more than 200 people writing exams, we can facilitate centers in your particular city. Faculty can become mentors. You can follow the progress of your students in the colleges that you can do. Another important thing I will say is we have CSR support from companies who also give us money to help students from economically weaker backgrounds to write exams. So this fee waiver, we give only two local chapters. So if you're a local chapter and you have students who come from economically weak backgrounds if they're doing NPTEL courses, writing exams. Once they pass it, we will refund 50% of the fee to them based on the college's recommendation. So that is something that you can do. Also, all this data that we give to the Sparks can be directly shared with bodies such as NAC and NBM when they come for accreditation. And you can say that we are showing this data inside your dashboard. That has also been very helpful for colleges is what we came to know. These are local chapters that we have. This is a state-wise distribution. I think Maharashtra is the highest followed by Tam Nadu and of course we had these. Telangana comes in maybe fourth, seventh position with 234 local chapters currently. Every semester, we also, we have some few local chapters outside of India and some countries, they're not very active but yes, they do keep using our courses as they can. We also rate local chapters every semester based on the participation from their side in the particular semester. So how many people have become toppers? How many people have written exams? How many people have done well? Based on it, we also rank and rate the college local chapters and we publish this list publicly on our website every semester. Other interactions with local chapter people, we do soft skill training like I already spoke about it. We take help of people here to go to exam centres as our representatives. Faculty can help in translation efforts and yes, like I said, we rate it and we give recognition to the spark and the college also every semester. So these are certificates that we give them based on the formula that we have with the college and the spark. These are other categories that we have based on faculty participation based on how local chapters improve semester after semester. There's a separate category part, science colleges also. Star LC who have been in the top 10 over 100 over the last four years. That's something that we have done. That's it as a presentation that we had today. So I hope you learned about NPTEL about what we do here. The NPTEL office, the head office is in IIT Madras. We have our head office here, about 70 people work in NPTEL office in IIT Madras. We have smaller offices in IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharebpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Gahati Bombay, Delhi and ISC Bangalore also. And we all work together to keep this project going. It's one of the most successful inter-institutional projects that eight institutes come together to work on this project and kind of run it without a break and to kind of offer 2000 courses that we have today. That's what we want to say. So my suggestion and you can say, maybe I'm old enough to advise all the young students out here also is try out NPTEL courses today. Go and go to Swayam website, find a few courses, learn from it, sample the videos there. You may or may not be able to follow certain videos. You may not like certain courses. Maybe some courses are difficult. It's okay. You can drop off. It is not like a college course that once you join a course, you have to be in that course. You have to complete that course. Otherwise somebody will think something, somebody will ask you something or maybe a paid fees that will get wasted. There is nothing like that in an NPTEL course. You can join them in 10 courses and you can try out week one videos. You can see what you're interested in and then shortlist it to maybe one or two courses, follow it up, see where they are able to do assignments. Maybe it even comes down to one course in a semester, but follow it till the end. Do all the assignments, watch all the videos, register for the exam, do the exam and become a talker in it. I think that's something that is very, very doable. I hope you were able to get that message as we presented in the last one and a half hours. That's why we were trying to tell you that don't be afraid that these courses are from IITs. I cannot do it. It will be very difficult. There are 15 lakh people who have written exams with us so far. It is not like all of them are coming out from IITs or they're all very well accomplished. They're all coming from highly studious backgrounds. Nothing like that. They're also students just like you in any college. What you need is the interest to study. What you need is the motivation. You have to put out time. It's not like two days before the NPTEL exam, let me study and get a certificate. You will not get a certificate. Every week you have to watch videos. Every week you have to do the assignment. Then you can definitely get a certificate. So you need hard work and it will pay off. But it is not like I cannot do it. There is no such thing as I cannot do an NPTEL course. Anybody can do an NPTEL course. We showed you people from age, 86 years doing NPTEL courses. We showed you people from all nook and corners of the country doing NPTEL courses. There is local language translation support of transcripts in some courses that will help you understand the subject better. Your faculty are there to help you if you do not understand something. Your friends are there to help you if you all join a course together. Discussion forum is there. Ask questions. Ask doubts if you have something there. But try out and learn something which is outside of your college curriculum today when companies are looking for recruitment. One of the things they see is the college degree is there. Apart from this, what have you done? That is something that all of them are looking at. Are you able to learn on your own? Are you able to study outside of college curriculum? Are you picking up any skills that are relevant for any job you might be trying for? This is something that companies do look out for. It is not just a resume saying VSE with this, VA with this. That might be one thing. But then we look at what else? What else? What else? What else do we look out for when we are recruiting people? So it might be good to have a few certifications to at least get your skills enhanced to learn what you are interested in to try and explore new opportunities under there. It is free. There is no fee to learn. You can download and watch the videos. You can download and do the courses. You can enroll in swine courses and do it. Only the final exam has a thousand rupees fee. That also we are giving fee waivers if you are a local chapter. That also you have to pay first. Get your exam done past the course. We will be able to help you with fee waivers on that front also. So don't let money be a barrier. Don't let anything else be a barrier. Put in your time. Put in your effort. Learn from NPTEL. Get skilled and I hope you do much much better. Till then all the best and I hope that all of you do enroll to a course. Thank you. Sir, please share the video. Sir, can you hear me now? Sir, Brahmachari sir is there. Sir, sir would you please share the PPT? Sir, can you hear me now? Hello. Yes, sir. Yes, this is this is Brahmachari Tatvachakanya from Vidya Mandira. Yes, sir, please do. Yes, so I am supposed to deliver the vote of thanks. Sir, should I proceed or Sir, PPT Yes. Sir, can you please share the chat, sir? Chat, okay. Okay, thank you. Thank you everybody. So my name is Brahmachari Tatvachakanya. Am I audible? Hello. Yes, sir, you are audible. Yeah, thank you. So, Namaskar everybody. So, I am Brahmachari Tatvachakanya from Ram Krishnamishan, Vidya Mandira and I am the vice principal of this college. I will be delivering the vote of thanks on behalf of Brahmachari Ishaakmachakanya. So, I would like to congratulate the organizers for this wonderful session that we had for last one and a half hours. It has been most educative and informative and a very important one. I would like to thank again the organizers for taking this initiative for this particular event. I would like to thank the speakers who have enlightened us with their important contributions by providing important information insights about the way NPTEL courses take place the way they help students and the way they are contributing to the educational community. I also thank the principal who have spoken in this session. They have really said the tone of this meeting and has helped us understand why we should have a smooth one so that we have a wonderful time in enjoying this session. NPTEL is doing a wonderful job in terms of providing most quality education across the corners of this country where the students are getting the opportunity to listen to teachers of the highest caliber of our country and they are able to learn some of the most important at the same time most relevant subjects from the most accomplished teachers who are present in the country. So I hope sincerely hope that this endeavor carries on this wonderful thing in the coming future. Let's hope that we will be having more wonderful courses more wonderful instructors who will be teaching those courses and the students who will be benefiting from this. And for all this we should definitely have this kind of awareness sessions because this type of format is pretty new to us it's only in the post-COVID time that the popularity of this sort of online platforms for education have been popular. So we should be embracing this new change take opportunity that it provides and let us hope that this learning experience this new learning experience that the students are enjoying may that prosper in the future. I thank everybody once again. I thank the our participating college from Bingoom and other participants for for being a part of this I thank everybody. Thank you. Thank you so much sir. So shall we wind up the session? Sure. Yeah thank you sir. Student team please stop the live stream.