jointly organized by Jamia Emilia Islam and New Delhi and NPTEL IIT Chennai is just a step in this direction. I am thankful to NPTEL IIT Chennai for accepting our proposal to have a sign workshop over here and enlightening us about the important features of this program. Initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Now, we will start our program with a Quran recitation, followed by its English and Urdu translation by Dr. Azishan Ansari. May I hand Dr. Azishan over here. English translation. He is Allah who is one. Allah, the eternal refuge. He neither brigates nor is born, nor is there to Him any equivalent. Urdu translation. There is no one like him. Thank you, Dr. Azishan. Now, I would like to call on the 18th faculty of engineering, Prof. Mini Estonar. You are welcome to NPTEL members and other faculty members of the faculty. Good morning, everyone. I am very excited to stand here today. Because finally we have been able to organize the NPTEL Swayam workshop today. And I warmly welcome the NPTEL team from IIT Madras. It's not IIT Chennai. We are still IIT Madras at Chennai. So I welcome the NPTEL team. NPTEL team, as you all know, NPTEL is a consortium of the senior IITs and IIC Bangalore. So the NPTEL started long back in 2012, if I remember correctly, to develop online courses. And the courses on NPTEL are taught by faculty of this consortium, institutes of only this consortium. So now NPTEL has around 650 plus courses. I'm sure more details will be given by the NPTEL team. And NPTEL was hosted by IIT Madras. And then later on the Swayam portal was launched by Government of India to include other eight coordinators, national coordinators. The Swayam online portal has nine national coordinators where NPTEL is one. So all the NPTEL courses are now available on the Swayam portal of Government of India, which again is hosted at IIT Madras. Managed by a team, separate team. So I am very grateful to the NPTEL team for agreeing to conduct this workshop. And they are doing it free of cost. And the workshop will happen online today because of the logistics to travel and come here. So my warm welcome to Shivchangardas Ji, Madam Kamalak and Divya and the whole team of NPTEL who have been coordinating with us from the month of, I think end of February onwards or early February we have been planning this. It all happened when we had the IIT Madras alumni meet in Delhi where I met the director Dr. Kamakodi and I requested him, can I have this workshop. And immediately he connected me with the NPTEL team and then they were very, very helpful in because they have a tight schedule of conducting the exams and coordinating the courses. So April was the earliest slot we could get from NPTEL. And they also, you know, agreed and it happened to be the session week for the engineering faculty so we could adjust the session test so that classes are not affected. And I'm glad we have a good turnout of faculty today. And I was discussing with Dr. Das yesterday that we have a lot of apprehensions about going online, you know, accepting courses from online portals. So I hope this workshop will clear many of our doubts and the offerings how to transfer credit, how the courses run, what are the courses available and what is the scheme and a lot of other things will be clear today. And the, and another good news is that tomorrow for another meeting, the Swayam NPTEL team, two of them are coming to Delhi for some other meeting. So we have requested them to spare one hour tomorrow for us in the afternoon. So any questions or any issues arising out of today's workshop can be directly sorted out tomorrow so that we can go ahead and implement some of the courses from the next academy here from July. Because some courses we have to adopt to give more flexibility to our curriculum to give more choices to our students, etc, etc. So this is this is the introduction in the beginning and let us look at it positively. So that we understand the issues and we will be able to adopt this easily. So, after this workshop I would be requesting each faculty to look at the Swayam NPTEL identify courses, which are in your domain, which we can recommend through our Board of Studies, through Faculty Committee to the Academy Council for approval and the process will go on. So, I warmly welcome all the faculty members of all the departments of engineering and technology, including faculty from Polytechnic who have come in large numbers to attend this workshop. Welcome to this workshop and I'm sure it is Ramzan time but then as I understand from my experience after the years, work goes on during Ramzan. So there is no issue with that. So my sincere thanks to my team, Sajjad Lon, Dr. Sajjad Lon and the team from one person from each department coordinated. So can we have a big round of applause for the team who coordinated this heads of the department for their cooperation. And of course the CIT team who made this possible and my office staff who helped us organize this at a very short notice. Once again, thank you so much and warm welcome to Shri Shankar Das, sir and his team, and we look forward to your coming to Jamia physically sometime soon sir. Thank you so much. Thank you ma'am. Now, I would like to hand over the proceedings to NPTEL team of IIT Madras. Dr. Das, please go ahead with your presentation. Thank you. Good morning. It's a privilege for me to stand before the office gathering and tell them or take them through the complete NPTEL online certification process including the soil, which is our main umbrella under which we operate. Let me just share my screen before I go ahead. Is my presentation visible? Yes, sir. And is it moving the next? Yeah. So this is a Swam NPTEL awareness workshop. We are organizing in association with faculty of engineering and technology. So during the course of my talk, I'll try to touch upon these things. Besides giving an introduction, I'll talk about what Swam platform is already ma'am has already conveyed what is Swam. Then what is NPTEL, NPTEL online certification which started in 2014. So this is a study transfer that the university is looking for, then other initiatives taken by NPTEL like domain certification, faculty development program, internships, off-skill training, and such and such. Then in addition to that, we have got a new initiative called NPTEL local chapter or Swam NPTEL local chapter concept. I could follow ma'am. Am I audible? Yes, sir. Okay. Then we'll also talk about NPTEL plus a new concept where we offer self-paced courses. Then definitely a new initiative which has been started by IIT Madras is four years BS treatment program, which is an off-campus model where the students or working professionals from different fields can actually pursue this degree in addition to the ongoing programs. Then we'll take up the question on cessations. Just to start, what is Swam? Swam is an acronym. It's a study of active learning for the young aspiring minds. It is the Ministry of Education or formerly Ministry of Human Resource Development Fund initiative where the academic communities cutting across all levels, they can offer online courses in MOOCs format through this platform. So this is the Indian MOOCs platform through which different agencies have been permitted to offer courses targeting a different segment of people. If it is a school children, we have got total nine coordinators, national coordinators for the school education is the National Institute of Open Schooling and NCRT. They will be offering the courses targeting the school children, IGNO and NITTR, they are targeting the out of school education, the teacher's training and other type of education focus for that. Then undergraduate studies, if it is engineering curricula for engineering undergraduate and postgraduate studies, NPTEL is the sole coordinator. AICT is for teacher's training in the engineering sector, CEC is undergraduate studies for non-engineering and non-management degrees and IIM Bangalore is the coordinator for UG and PG level management courses. In addition to that, you have got postgraduate education. If it is a non-engineering, non-management course, then UGC takes care of that. IIM Bangalore, as I said about UG and PG level management courses. But since NPTEL comes from IITs, so we do have in addition to our poor branch of engineering departments, we have got basic sciences, humanities, social sciences and management disciplines too. So, we are not only restricting our courses from the engineering curricula, but we are also offering courses from a large number of courses from management, basic sciences and humanities and social sciences. So, this was a brief introduction of SWAM under which there are nine coordinators who are offering their courses on their own. So, NPTEL is one of the coordinators and all NPTEL courses that we offer are actually SWAM courses. Then NPTEL, we started our journey 20 years back. Now we are actually celebrating our 20th year, which started in 2003 and 2003 to 2014. Our focus was primarily to record the lectures from the classrooms where the faculty was delivering the talk to the students who are currently seated in their classroom and make it available to the Larnat communities across the country or across the group. So, that was the models of operating. From 2014, when you know other platforms like Edex, Coursera, Udacity, Udacity Futureland, they were just coming up and there was a necessity to reach the gap between what is there, what is the requirement of the industry and what is available in the academics. So, considering that a new mode of operation was introduced in the form of NPTEL online certification. That started from 2014 and we are continuing in 2023 also. So, when NPTEL started its journey in 2003, it had a vision like provide high quality affordable education at a very large scale, develop video lectures and course contents and make it available. So, from 2014 only we changed our mode of operation from just keeping a repository to online certification against studying of certain course contents. So we started our online certification process from 2014 and started promoting the use and adoption of these courses by different colleges, universities in association with the regulators like AICT and LJC. So, if you see that NPTEL is the largest depository of engineering content and it is one of the largest running multi-institutional projects running for more than 20 years now. So, NPTEL online certification, as I said, it started in 2014. It follows the MOOCs format. MOOCs format means massive open online courses. That means number of courses, number of learners who can attend a course is not limited by the brick and mortar classroom. So, you can accommodate maybe 100 to 100 or maybe 300 people in one, in a particular room. So, MOOCs is a model where actually the contents are delivered online, contents are open. That is, first is M, massive. That means the number of people who are enrolling into the course can be 10, 100 or hundreds of thousands. Courses are open. Second row is open. That means anyone having an interest to learn the subject should be able to access the contents without any edge. Then comes the delivery mode. That is, third one is open online. That means delivery takes place through internet. So, if I have the interest and have an internet connection, I should be able to access the MOOCs content and see these courses. These courses are structured exactly in the very much same way as our university regular courses are there. That is, it has got a start date, it has got an end date. In between, it has got a LTP structure that how many hours of lecture to be delivered in a week, how many hours of practical if it is there, tutorial sessions, how much it will be there, it is structured in the same way. So, it is very much in, you can say, it's being delivered online but has the flavor of all components of a regular classroom teaching. It can be taken by anyone, anytime and from anywhere. While taking the course, we don't ask whether you are having any academic background. We know the subject or prerequisite of it. We don't ask, we don't ask about the profession. We don't ask about the gender or where he or she is. So, anyone having an interest can actually take these courses. It's offered in a four quadrant approach. I'll talk about this in the next slide. These courses we offer during January to June and July to December, aligning with the semester system of Indian universities. So, our courses are usually offered during third week of January and third week of July when most of the universities they start their semester system. But we start opening the course enrollment opens at least two months ahead of that. So, for the January courses, we often open the portal for enrollment somewhere mid-November. And for July run courses, we offer open the portal for enrollment sometime in mid-May. So, I'll just take you through all these things. If you just click on to these swam.bob.in, it will take you to the Swam portal where we can actually see the currently courses what are being offered. Can you see the Swam portal? Can anyone please confirm whether you are able to see the screen that is where? Yes, sir. It is visible. Okay. Now, you can see whatever courses are being offered here. They are from AICT, NPTL, there is one course, but mostly from other institutions just because our courses are almost in the last phase of their cycle. That is whatever courses we offered in January, they are actually nearing completion and we have the final examination on 28, 29 and 30th April. Okay. So, once we open the enrollment process either in mid-May or in mid-November, you can go to the portal and if you just filter it here like NPTL, you will find whatever courses are being offered here. This is a course card. Okay. This will just give some idea like what is the course name. We use the faculty which institute is offering the course and if I click on to this particular course, it will open the next page. Okay. So, from here, I'll be getting an idea like, okay, this is an upcoming course. This is a core course. This is a self-paced one. This is a primary for the doctors, health research, medical professionals from the doctor community and it's a book. Yes, sir. Yeah. The contents are not visible. YouTube actually planned to show us. Why is it not visible? Yeah, the SoYM is not visible. The SoYM link. Okay. I think, sir, just a minute. Please do it again. Sir, is it now visible? Yeah, now it is visible. So, what are you doing? It's not on the beginning because we are missing. Sure, sure. So, as we said that enrollment process starts in May or November for the July or January semesters. The courses are offered to the SoYM.gov.in portal. That is the main umbrella under which all nine national coordinators will be working. So, whatever courses are coming from NPTEL or IAM, Bangalore or IICT or NCERT, all will be clubbed or shown into the SoYM portal. So, if I just go to the SoYM portal, I hope you can now see the SoYM portal page. Here, if you just click on all courses, you'll find the forthcoming courses which are listed here. Okay. So, these are called course cards. If there are 600 courses coming from NPTEL for say July run, you can see from mid-May, all 600 courses will be displayed here and you will be seeing here NPTEL will be marked here. Just like there is one course here, I find it is from NPTEL, but it's not from engineering curricula. This is offered by Indian National Institute of Epidemiology for the doctors, practicing doctors under the ICMR program. Okay. So, if you just see the course card, then click on to the course page, this course card. It will give you further details about the course, what is the course, like what the faculty is going to teach, what the intended audience, course layout, course content, weekly structure, books and differences, instructor biography, who are the teaching assistants, course certification, how the certificate will be issued, all data will be given here. So, once you are satisfied, okay, you are looking for this course, then you can actually click here and join. I'll take you through this process little later. Okay. Now, tentative course list and timelines published at least six months ahead of time. As we understand, if, say, Jami Emilia University is looking for taking the courses for credit transfer, it will require some time on the part of the university also to identify the prospective courses which should be considered for the credit transfer. It will go through the rigorous evaluation and maybe the academic council has to take a call on that and finally up to do. So, considering all those new degrees, we are actually publishing a course list at least six months in ahead of the time, so that the faculty or the concerned institutions can actually go to the portal and take a call on that. So, our courses are primarily curriculum based, job oriented or from emerging fields. If I just show you that how we publish the course list from this particular point, it will take you to the NPTEL semester information. All semesters are like right now we are in January 2023. If you just click on the July 2023, you have got the tentative course list that we have published July to December cycle. It's about, I think, roughly 650 or 670 courses will be there. There are actually distributed or you can say club together in the branch wise or discipline wise, agriculture, architecture, biotechnology, bioengineering, chemical engineering, chemistry. So, what are the departments are there? All departmental courses are clubbed here. Who is the faculty? Then you can see the top right, which is the institution which is offering. It's initially what NPTEL started with seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore, but right now we are not actually restricting our courses only from these institutions. There are many first generation IITs have come up. Good faculties are there. There are a few tripleties, IISCRs. So, if there are good faculties at those institutions, we are open to take the courses from there and actually taking a large number of courses from there too. So, if the courses are coming from, say, ISAR. So, in that case, there is a coordinating institution. There is an IIT which is actually taking care of that course. So, this is the coordinating institution. If the course is coming from, say, other than any major IIT, that will be taken care of by some other older IITs who are under this program. Then you can see the duration. I'll talk about this. You can see here four weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks, it will be written. Type of course, you'll find some courses are listed as new. There are some courses which are listed as rerun. Then starting date is given, ending date is given, as well as the exam date is mentioned. So, even enrollment date is also provided here. Now, if I just look at the tentative timeline, sorry, July, this is my timeline. As we are saying that we open the courses at such and such time. So, the courses starts in July 2024 to July 2023. Ends on October, exam date is here. Our course will open for enrollment for the complete 600 or 700 courses that are not for during July. It will open for enrollment on 22nd May. From that day, we'll be finding these course cards in the swim portal. Course enrollment will close one week after the course starts. Okay, now you can see there are three variation of courses, four weeks, eight weeks, and 12 weeks. So, whatever courses are there, they are actually into three groups, four weeks, eight weeks, and 12 weeks. These first four weeks, a set of four weeks courses and set of eight weeks courses and all 12 weeks courses will be started from the beginning. Now, there are a few universities which will be starting their journey or semester system later. In case they are not in a position to take any of the courses from these slots, the first four weeks set, first eight weeks set and first 12 weeks set, we offer a certain number of other four weeks eight week courses during the next slot which starts exactly one month after that. Okay, so they can take some courses from there. That is the mechanism. Our courses are primarily curriculum based. We try to follow either the UGC or AICT curricula or sometimes as per our IIT curricula. We offer the courses and there are some courses which are drug oriented or from emerging fields. Enroll candidates that can enrollment takes place in the swim portal. But the certification purpose, which is an optional feature, people have to register the enroll candidates if they are interested for certification. They have to go NPTEL portal and register separately. So the first part is enrolled into the course for learning purpose, completing the course structure without paying any fee through swim. But for certification, there are fees associated with it and that takes place through a separate portal. So they are not exactly same. They are two different processes. Now comes course features. We said that it follows a four quadrant approach. It's nothing new. We say that four quadrant approach. Even in a classroom structure, the faculties were teaching in front of their students. They are also following the same four quadrant approach. Consider that the faculty is teaching to a classroom in a physical mode. And I put a camera behind the students to capture whatever the faculties movements are there, including the audio video, both are captured. So the lecture recording becomes the quadrant one. And during the delivery of the lecture, either the faculty will stop or the students may stop the faculty and or interrupt the faculty and ask the question. So there would be some interaction between the faculty and the students. And that should also be part of the online certification. That is second component. Then comes during the runtime of the course, the faculty may be interested to test the understanding of the students by conducting certain quizzes or maybe some sort of an exam, internal assessment type of exam. So that also is a feature of the MOOCs program. They could be giving some notes, it could be handwritten notes, it could be PowerPoint slides, it could be something links to the weekies and all, weekies and all. So these all things are also provided here. So there are four quadrants. This is the first is lecture video. You can see the lecture videos are given. Then every week, we not only provide the interaction with the students, the interaction between the student and the teacher or the teaching assistants. But also we provide a set of questionnaire to the students every week so that after going through the lectures, if they have a doubt, they will be clarifying their doubts to the teacher through a web-based forum. They will be posting their query into the forum. Teacher and the teaching assistants associated with this course, they will respond within a timeline, 24 hours. Once the doubts are clarified, then they will solve a set of questions given by the faculty related to that week's video. So there could be 10 to 20 questions, which has to be submitted by the students. These questions could be multiple choice type with one correct option. It could be multiple choice with multiple correct options. It could be filling the blanks, numerical problems and such and such. In case of numerical problems, the problem statement will be given. The students will be asked to sort the thing and put it within certain accuracy level. So after two decimal accuracy, they will be mentioning that. And the faculty will tell, okay, if the answer range falls between these to these, this will be considered as correct. So these such type of questions are actually auto-graded by the computer. Each assignment, whether it carries 10 questions or 20 questions or 25 questions are graded out of 100 marks. The students are given, students are given 10 days time. Once the videos are available, made available to the students during the start of the week, they will go through the video, clarify their doubts through forum, then go through the assignment. They have 10 days time. Within the 10 days time, they can go and submit the assignment. As soon as the 10-day submission in timeline is over, they can go back to the portal and see what is their score in the assignment against out of 100. Each assignment is graded out of 100. Now, we said that, okay, we are following the quadrant approach. What is our structure? We say it is a four weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks. Our lecture delivery training is 2.5 hours of lecture per week. That is considering 2.5 hours of lecture. If I have a course on say special topic of 10 hours duration, we will take four weeks time to complete it. So four weeks content, four assignments will be there, four will be there as it is. For a 20 hour course, that means a medium type of course, with 2.5 hours of lecture per week, it will take eight weeks of time to complete the course. And a full semester course of 30 hours will be completed in 12 weeks time. So if it is a 12-week course, we will have 12 assignments too. And each assignment will carry 100 marks. They will be graded out of that. Then comes your, we are saying that, okay, we are missing the very much, you can say physical interaction or facial and face-to-face interaction. What is relevant in a class? Many of the student, many of the faculty members should be concerned that that's very important criteria because we can't see the facial expression of the teacher. Yes, it's an online mode. We cannot embed all those features, but still we try to provide some sort of a flavor of that. So what we do periodically, in addition to the web-based interaction, we ask the teacher to come online in YouTube. At least once in a month, the teacher is available for one hour or more. Whether the faculty will be coming onto the YouTube, the students are permitted to actually use that YouTube chat box, post that question, and the teacher will pick up the question and answer to that. Just because the students or the learners are geographically scattered across the globe. So this is the best mode what we can adopt to it. In addition to that, we have got time ministers as fellows. So we are also utilizing these services of these PMRF scholars to conduct problem-solving sessions on a regular basis. So they carry out or conduct the sessions where they will be taking assignment questions and telling them how to solve these all problems. The faculty also will provide supplementary study materials like open slides if they have used any. Text transcription, we understand the students might be coming from tier 2, tier 3 cities where they might have studied in local languages. They might have studied all along their academic career up to class 12 in Hindi media or Bengali media or any other media. So they may not be very comfortable in learning through the English mode. The teacher is speaking in English. So in that case, just to support that, that type of students, what we do for courses which have been created a little earlier, we try to provide or get an English text transcription of the lecture. That is the way faculty has stopped in the course. The same verbatim text transcript is made available to the students so that if they do not follow the lectures delivered during the class, they can at least go through the text transcript and slowly build up on that process. So these are the four quadrants that will follow and our core structure, 10 hour course, four weeks time, 20 hour course, eight weeks time, 30 hour course, 12 weeks time. Then it comes, I have gone through the complete process. I have enrolled into the course through Swayam. Every week I have gone through the video, interactive with the teacher through quorum, or maybe through YouTube or PMRF scholar, submitted the assignment, graded assignment, I have seen what is my grade. Then at the end I am interested for a certification. Certification, as I said, this is taken care of separately. First part is completely funded by the Ministry of Education, but the second part examination is not funded, so we charge something. Our charge is 1000 rupees per course irrespective of whether it is a four week course, eight weeks, or two weeks course. So it's a flat rate. Exams are conducted in person, centre-based. That is, we have got more than 150 centres across the country where the students, pardon sir? Yeah, actually in the audience people have some questions, they want to ask some questions. Sure, sure. Sure sir, I will pause. Anybody having some questions, you can ask. Dr. Das, I forgot to mention that we have faculty members from all engineering departments as well as we have a university polytechnic. So I have called all the faculty of the university polytechnic as well. So the question is, are there separate courses or are they the same? We have to choose from the same slot. That is one. I also wanted to ask how to involve our PMR scholars because we have many PMR scholars in Jamia. So how to involve them with your problem solving? Thank you. To answer to your first query, that is whether the courses are separate for the students and faculty, my answer is no. All the courses which are basically a core course of the department, they are usually taken by the students. If faculty is interested to, maybe he or she is actually given the task of offering the similar course in the coming semester, they can take these courses just to build up their basic understanding of the course, something like they refer to the books and all. Okay. But there is a program called faculty development programs. All the advanced level courses are marked by ICT as or approved by ICT as faculty development courses. So these are the courses the most of the faculty members will be taking. They are not basically core courses, but mostly elective courses from the advanced level. Okay, but these are not only dedicated for the faculties if the students are interested and they are also taking these courses. Okay. So, could I make my point clear that is courses are same only some of the courses as I have shown that in the course card at the bottom of the course card it will be mentioned that this is an FDP approved course. So these are the advanced level courses which have been approved by ICT for faculties. And if they complete that course, they can get a FDP certificate for their career progression, which can be useful for them. Okay. So these courses are also open for the general students regarding the PMRF scholars, ideally do not know the policy how we can actually take the help of this but it's a definitely good proposal. She can just give us some time, I'll go back to our people, I'll just talk to them and come back to you how to include that. This will be good initiatives. Okay. Can I move forward? Any other question? Hello. Yes. I have 10 hours 12, 20 hours and 30 hours course. So what about the credit? How much of credit is going for 10 hours 12, 20 hours and 30 hours? Okay. See, UGC and ICT or anyone, they will have some structure like okay, if say 12 hours, 14 hours of learning is there then they consider it as a single credit course. Okay. Now consider that 10 hours course, it is a 10 hours means it is a condensed lecture. That means faculty has not taken even a single one minute break, unlike in a classroom, the faculty will be interacting and all. So here, all those parts have been removed. Even if they are taking a glass of water, sipping a glass of water, that is also removed during the ICT. So it's a condensed course of 10 hours, then there are assignments, which will take at least one hour for the students to solve all those things. Then there are certain time is required for interaction interaction with the faculties through the forum or through YouTube or PMF scholars. So taking all these things into consideration. It will take you more than 15 to 70 hours of learning for a 10 hour course or four weeks course. What we suggest in our circuit certificate is that a 10 hour or four weeks courses equivalent to one credit as recommended by IITs. 20 hour course is equivalent to two credits, 30 hour course or 12 weeks courses are equivalent to three credits. So if you just see the EGC guidelines, the SUAM approval document, it says that the universities and autonomous institutions who are actually taking the SUAM courses for credit. They can improve additional credit points just because you have got a lot of other activities associated with these. So most of the universities who have adopted this courses for credits, they have considered that 30 hour courses instead of our recommendation of three credits. They have actually taken it as minimum four credits. In some cases they have, it's a very few cases, they have taken it as a five credit also. 20 hour courses have definitely been taken as three credit courses. So additional credits beyond what is recommended by NPTEL is the prerogative of the academic council of university and autonomous college. But in the certificate we will be writing one, two and three credits for 10, 20, 30 hours of courses. Is there any territory required on this? So what you see that okay after doing the course, if I want to write the exam, I register separately then go to the exam center. I will be provided a hall ticket. I'll go to the designated exam center. To our exam partner, we have got more than 150 centers spread across the country where people will be going to the center and writing the online exam. Okay, the exam could be as we said that it can be online or offline. Offline means questions will be coming in the screen as it is like an online exam also. But students will be given 10 papers or rather papers will be given where they will be writing the answers in the paper, which will be scanned and sent to the faculty for grading purpose. So online exam means answer is also given to computer. Offline means question appears in screen, students will be writing the questions answers in booklet. Got the evaluation papers. Now in the final examinations they are conducted out of 100. For four weeks or 10 hour courses the exam is conducted out of 50 full marks, but for eight weeks and 12 weeks courses the full marks are 100. But as we said that is a continuous evaluation process. So we also consider that okay how they have done in the assignment stage. So 25% weightage in the final certification is given to the assignment and the 75% weightage is only carried forward in the final certification. So if they have got 80 that will be scaled to sorry if they have got 80 then that will be scaled to 16 from the final exam. And as I say that every assignment carries 100 marks, but we understand the students who are taking these courses are not taking these courses on a full time basis. So they might be taking some other courses in the university system. So there is every possibility that sometime they will be missing or they will not be able to submit the assignment in time. We have got 10 days time. So in case they miss an assignment. Are they not permitted to write the exam. You say no they can they can write the exam but there is a criteria. For a four week score there are four assignments with 400 marks 100 each. We say that we will be considering on the best three assignment scores will be putting into the if someone has put all or submitted all for assignments will be putting them in excellent sheet and see which are the top scoring three top scoring three assignment grades taken average out of 100 and directly take 25% from there to the final certification. For a eight week sports we only considered the best six assignments for a week sports we considered the best eight assignments. Now question comes okay if I have done at least eight I don't have any problem. What happens if I actually do not submit the minimum required say instead of eight assignments I have only submitted five assignments. Then what happens in that case we'll consider that eight is the minimum requirement you have the student has got zero in the remaining three. So the score obtained out of 500 will be considered as the score obtained out of 800 on. So accordingly the average will go down and from that 25% score will also come down. Okay, now we expect that the students should score 40% individually in the assignment in the final exam also. Right, so in the final exam out of 100 they should get 40 and in the assignment out of evidence score of 100 they should get 40 or once we are taking 25% out of 25 they should get at least 10. This is important. Okay, there are programming courses like Python, Java, Haskell are all those programming assignments are there. It's not only the weekly assignments, they have got weekly programming assignments separately. Okay, so for programming assignment they have to actually take additional steps to solve programming problems every week and immediately before the final certification exam. They will be given one particular time slot before the final exam when they will be taking a unproctored or non-proctored programming test. That means they can write the exam from their home or from the college whatever it is but they will be given a time slot and some programming assignment problems will be given and from their 25% weightage will be taken. So what I said is 75% final examination weightage is only for non-programming courses. For programming courses 25% weightage will go to the programming test, 25% link to the assignment and only 50% will be taken from the final certification. I hope this point I made it clear. Once they get 40% in each component, then they are eligible to get a e-verifiable certificate. We do provide only soft copy of the certificate but the certificates will carry the QR code which can be verified by any agency without actually referring the certificate to NPK. They can simply scan the QR code and it will directly show the certificate from our server. fee is 1000 rupees as we said but for the categories from SC, ST and physically disability 40% or more. We do provide fee waiver of 50% as per government of India norms. Okay, so they will be only paying 500 rupees but initially once they register for the examination they will pay 1000 rupees only once they get a certificate then remaining 50% is actually reimbursed to them. We are working with our industry bodies to get some funding through the CSR initiative and we try to take that fund to support the needy students who are recommended by the local chapter college. Suppose at this present moment some students from your college is a needy student. He or she will not be able to have in this fee waiver scheme until and unless your institute becomes a local chapter because the fee waiver is only linked to the local chapter because the recommendation of the students financial condition should come from the institute. We are not checking any financial part here. So exam results are published tentatively within 30 days. It's actually much lesser than that but we are putting a maximum cap of 30 days within 30 days we publish it. Certificates will be signed by the institute which is offering the course. If the course is offered by IIT Madras the certificate will be here the signature of the coordinators from IIT Madras and NPTEL coordinator. So for joining NPTEL certification course what all things we should see first there are two categories of courses I see one are new course another is rerun course. If it is a rerun course if you start. I have a small query. Yes. Whether on your e-certificate scores are also reflected or is there any grading mechanism of the scores. This is the sample certificate. Here you'll have the student name, course name. What is the score out of assignment? What is the score out of proper examination? How many people are actually certified in this course when this course was offered students roll number every data and the backside of the certificate it will carry the QR code. Is it what you were asking for it? So that is the is your point query address problem. So if it is assignment proctored exam or non proctored programming test all scores will be reflected in the certificate. Right. Now if someone is interested to join a course there are two categories of courses one is rerun course that means which was created sometime back is on a rerun mode. And there are some courses which have been created recently and is the first time being offered as a new course. So what we suggest is that in addition to the list that I had shown that NPTEL semester information you can go through that. From there you find that if it is a rerun course you can actually for rerun courses complete data is available into the portal. So you go to the NPTEL semester here. Find out whether say for July say this is a rerun course. Okay. Second course is rerun. What I can do air cut stability and control I can just copy this course name and see the complete statistics of this course from next page. Say now I can check from here. NPTEL.SE.IN courses. All rerun courses are listed here. I can check. Okay. This is the course. So the complete course videos are available on your left hand side. You have got about the courses given here downloads. You can actually download the text transcript that I said English text version of these videos. I forgot about the statistics. How many times this course was offered and how was the performance. These many people actually took this course. These many people wrote the examination. How many people finally successfully completed the course. Gold means these all things I'll tell you later. Okay. Then you have got the top list who are the top parts of this and each of the institutions they are associated. Certificate type. As I was saying now certificate has got. If it is less than 40, we do not say the candidate has passed. That is a cumulative total of assignment score and final certification score or assignment score, non-programming score and final certification score. If they do not qualify or get 40% marks individually and in total also 40% then we say that the candidate has not successfully completed. 40 to 59. We say it is successfully completed. Sorry. Here now we have actually separated the grading. 59. 60 to 75. We say elite 75 to 90 or 89 is elite silver. Then 90 to 100 is elite gold that we put a seal here. You can see here golden color symbol, elite gold. Okay. So not only that you can actually see here, say from downloads. Here it has not been given but for other courses you can find if the course was offered in a read on mode earlier, you can see the weekly assignments there. So once you are offering this course for the first time, maybe it makes sense that the students goes to the page and sees what are the, how the assignment questions were framed in the last round. So they can start. Okay. So after going through the semester information you identify the course, then if it is a reader, find out the course videos. They don't have to wait till the courses published. They can actually students and take the videos from there and start learning. Okay, they can also start solving the previous assignments, so that they are better prepared once the course becomes live, it becomes easy for them to spend little time and complete the course. If it is a new course, they don't have any other choice. Then, once they do this, if it is a new course, you don't have any other option, then go to the swine.com.in when we open the courses for enrollment, go there, enroll. Complete 12 weeks for eight weeks or four weeks depending on the course duration, then if someone is interested for the certification, then they registered for the certification through this portal. This link will be provided to the students who are enrolled into the course. And important point here is that we identify the learners by their unique email ID. So if you are using this course for say right now we are enrolling in a course. Next, if you enroll in a different course with a different email ID, the previous course history is not carried forward. So what we say, you can use your personal email ID to carry forward because tomorrow if you change your organization, your complete course credits are lost. Now the concept of academic, the credit bank has come. So if you really want to carry forward all the credits, it makes sense that you carry your individual email ID for all swiveling courses, whether you read from NPTEL or any other institute, any other national coordinator, you should use only email ID because we identify you using your email ID only. This is the certificate sample. As I said, it will carry NPTEL logo, elite means it is definitely 60 plus elite. The gold even symbol means it is 90 plus, otherwise it will be 75 onwards 75 to 89 will be silver color. So it will have complete details of how the student has performed in the examination and the backside the students address and you are provided and also it will be marked like what is the credit equivalency recommended by NPTEL. Then some statistics I just showed you. So far we have offered till December 2022 excluding this semester ongoing semester, we have offered about 4,700 plus courses. Enrollment count is 2.074 plus. More than almost like 24 lakhs people have registered for the examination and certificates are e variable. This is our journey. We started with just three courses in 2014. And now in the current semester we are offering 665 courses that's our group. Out of the 665 courses we have actually more than 24 lakhs people enrolling into the course and with exam registration process closing the exam registration in this current semester stands at 5.2 lakhs. Okay, the exam is conducted that I forgot to mention the exams are conducted if I must have seen the timetable of what I was showing that there are two sets of courses offered. First set is four weeks set one, eight weeks set one and all 12 weeks courses. So the first four weeks set will be completed within a month's time say first eight weeks courses will be completed within first two months. So what we'll do these two set of courses the first set of four weeks and first set of eight weeks will be clubbed together and we have exam sometimes in March or in September depending on which semester we are in. Similarly, all 12 week courses which are actually taking three months time will be joined by two sets of four weeks and eight weeks courses which are starting one month later. So the second set of four weeks second set of eight weeks and all 12 weeks courses will have an exam I got in October or in April. The exams are conducted on Saturdays and Sundays and our exam dates are published at least one year in advance. So this is just to help the universities also to plan their activities. If the universities are taking or considering credit transfer for the students, they should also move down the NPTEL exam timeline and ensure that their semester exams are not clashing with NPTEL semester, because these are conducted across the country, and it takes at least one year notice to the CS to book the venue will not be able to change the dates under any circumstance. Okay, so this is important. Now the course is if you just see our spread it's not only engineering courses, you have got good number of courses you can see the number of courses are from definitely from mechanical, electrical, science and all, but equally good number of courses are there from humanities, social science and management. Now we are also offering courses from law, certain in certain ideas they have bought the law departments, we are also offering the courses from IITs in the law branch as well as we are taking some courses from National Law universities or law colleges across the country. Top 20 exam cities as we said we conduct the examination in more than 150 centers across the country. This is something like for the major cities where we are conducting the exam and tentative numbers that speeds. The major challenge lies with us that if we know that okay, 5000 people will be writing the exam from say daily center, we can alert the TCS actually to book the centers accordingly. But our exams, actually local chapter, if the college is a local chapter, they usually alert us, but sometimes even considering that okay last time it was say X number we take 10%, 20% high can book the numbers. Sometimes it actually goes beyond our estimation. So that time it becomes a challenge to conduct the exam within those two days. In this semester, 29th and 30th was the scheduled day, but in view of such critical thinking like more number of students have enrolled from certain cities like Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, particularly Chennai and Coimbatore, we are not in a position to even take the exams within three days. We have actually extended the time to 28th also. Now we are going for 27th also, but we are taking into account that okay, whichever students are being brought here actually try to alert their university or colleges so that at least the students who are taking the exam they are spared. But this is a logistic problem just because we cannot anticipate the number. It's a MOOCs format. So it becomes a problem at times. If your students are taking the courses for credit transfer, you can alert us before time so that we make necessary arrangement. And if you have got a good computer lab, we can also explore if you can conduct the exam, not only for your students for other students also within your TCS. Okay. Exam attendance percentage is roughly 85 to 90% is much more than any other exams, even for the exams which actually gives them a job is much higher than that. And if you see the pass percentage it was between 70 to 80% if the students are doing their courses or the assignments properly, they are understanding the things properly and doing it themselves, then there is no reason why the students should fail in the final exam. Okay. So the exam percentage, pass percentage is around 70 to 80% like that. Exam registration if you see the gender basis particularly the women find it extremely beneficial because they can take the courses from the comfort of their home and just for the examination they can go to the nearest exam center and take the exam. So it's always 4060 is the distribution between male and female. The reasons for taking the examination you can see, primarily is the credit transfer that is hitting. That is the reason why many people are taking these courses, but again, to update themselves on particular new domains, because internet, sorry, industry footprint zero is actually changing the complete sphere of industry. So, now we hear more about blockchain, AI, machine learning data science, 3d printing and all things. So many of these courses are not still part of the curriculum. So this gives an opportunity for the not only for the students, but also the faculty members as well as the professionals from the industry to take these courses for transfer. Either to re-skill or upskill themselves and to get a better job opportunity. Okay. On top 20 environmental registration data if you just see, you can see that it's the impact of industry 4.0. More people are looking for Java, data science, cloud computing, Python, then definitely if you see the reports coming from the industry bodies that many of our engineers are not employed because they may be very competent in the technical skill, but they do not have a holistic approach of development overall development. Very few institutions they actually stress more on the soft skill development. But yes, we not only provide courses on the soft skill, how to write or how to prepare themselves better for job opportunities and all face the interviews and all. We also conduct the soft skill training for the college students that I'll talk a little later. So these are the courses which are more popular in terms of enrollment and the similar things are represented in the exam registration. They take these courses for certification also. Problem solving, as we say, regularly carry out these things, these numbers. This was the pilot phase. But these are becoming very popular. The feedback which are coming from the students who are attending these courses. I'll show you the links. You can just see there that okay, people are writing it high praise that they learned a lot through the PMRF scholars every week. Now comes people have got a certificate course level certificate. We understand that okay, from our 2014 to say 2016 17 we have seen that many people are taking a lot of courses but these courses are not linked to each other. They're taking something from X, something from Y. So we thought okay, can we give a direction to the students. Tell them okay, if you are thinking of building a carrier by taking a courses from a particular segment, possibly we can give you a path. So that's how the domain scholar or the domain certification program was brought into picture. We say that okay, if you are looking for developing a carrier in a particular area. These are the courses, these are the core courses, these are the elective courses if you take, then you will get at least some sort of a mastery on that particular area. So that is domain scholars. I'll talk a little more about this in the next slide. Then the people those who are taking good number of courses semester after semester we also try to recognize this effort of the students by marking them as NPTEL superstars, evangelists, motivated learners, enthusiast, discipline stars and believers. Everything is depending on how many courses they have taken in a semester and what is the score. Okay, depending on that these are structures are even and just to motivate them we also give them a token mementos after they achieve these targets. NPTEL domains. If you just see this micro certification where the learner can obtain expertise in a particular area. Okay, focused area. They gain expertise of foundation in that particular area. They can actually pursue higher education from that field or gain expertise so that they are better equipped to face the prospective job markets. The requirement is that they have a 60 to 70 weeks of learning they have to complete. There are a few set of core courses, elective courses prescribed. They have to complete all the courses from that domain within a three years timeline. Okay, and individuals course they should get at least 55% and the overall they should get 60% marks. Complete the course within three years timeline. Currently we have got 12 disciplines, 12 engineering branches, engineering management, humanities, basic sciences, branches from where 51 domains have been identified. You can actually go to this place, NPTEL.ac.in domains. Here you can see what are the domains. Domain brochure you can see from here, but I'll also show it here. RSPs, biotechnology, what are the domains we have created here? Management, humanities, English studies, psychology, civil engineering, complex science, electrical, mechanical, metallurgy, materials engineering. So these all domains are there. If you just see there are core courses, elective courses to be completed within a particular timeline of three years. An average score 60, average score total is 60. Individual score can be 55. Once they complete all the requisite courses, they get a domain certificate. The first domain certificate holder was from a student of second year mechanical engineering student from Arunachal Pradesh. He surprised us. He was from mechanical engineering. He was the first recipient of domain certificate in the computer science. So I had the opportunity to invite him to one of the workshops in Kolkata and interact what made him to take this course. In his second year taking almost at that point he completed 12 courses. His answer was that, see, I am working in my basic discipline is mechanical engineering, but I want to pursue my career in mechatronics, which is not only the domain knowledge of mechanical engineering, but needs the knowledge of electrical, electronics, computer science and all. So my regular curriculum does not permit me to take courses from these all disciplines. So NPTEL gives me a platform whereby I can take the courses. And he did extremely well in those computer science courses and ultimately he took some internship opportunities also from IT Madras. So that's how actually it gives cross-discipline learning platform for the learners. They can whether they are from individual computer science or not, if they are looking for any other degree or say specialization, specialized knowledge from other disciplines, they can very well do it. And many of the universities who are actually taking these courses, they are asking their students within this four years, ten years, within eight weeks, eight semesters, can they complete one particular domain? In this AICT has said that 160 graduates will earn them a BTEC degree. But there are many universities who are taking this benefit of AICT like, okay, 180 graduates, 20 extra graduates earning through SOAM platform and they give the BTEC honors degree. One like Biju Patnaik University of Technology is giving a micro-specialization. So you can also think on that, it's not only credit transfer, but also you can think of giving some micro-specialization or honors, something like that, that can be thought of. NPTEL's star learners, if you see the more and more and more number of people are actually taking these courses, they're clubbing together. Most popular courses which are appreciated by the industries are Python, Electrical Vehicles, Data Science, some programming languages, and these courses. Okay, this is a list is before you. You may say that, okay, I have got in a semester, you have got four slots in March and September two exam dates and in July, sorry, March you have got one exam date and April and October you have got two exam dates, Saturday and Sunday. So there are three exam dates. How many exams can you take? Each day, we conduct the exam in two sessions, four-month session between 9 to 12 and afternoon session between 2 to 5. A student can take actually anything. So a student can actually take. Hello. Yes, please. I see there's some disruption in electricity. So can you stop for a few minutes? Still be restored electricity over here. Yeah, yeah, I will give you a call. Yeah, yeah, yes. In the meantime, there are any. It has got restored, it has got restored. It has got restored, you can continue. Okay, thank you. You better continue. Okay. So now, as I said, we have got three exam dates, one in March and September, two in your October and April. So three exam dates, we are conducting the exam in two sessions, four-month and afternoon, and you can actually take maximum six courses. That means individuals can actually take as many courses as possible of their interest for learning purpose, but they want to go for certification. Maximum courses that can be, one can write for certification in a certain studies, limited to six because there are six exam slots. So before taking the course, they have to see, okay, I'll take these two courses during March or September and these are the four courses that will be writing the exam on September, October or April. And you can see there are 12 courses which are written by, during January to December 2022. There are a good number of people who have taken 12 courses. That means all six courses. Hello. Yes. Hello. Yes, sir. Yeah. Can you wait for some time? Yes. Because we need to restart the things. No, please wait, please wait for some time. Just let me understand. Are your concerns being addressed? Hello. Are you? Dr. Das, you can continue now. As I was saying earlier, there are six sessions to which the students or the learners enrolled into the course can actually write the certification exam. One exam date is available in March and in September and two exam dates are available in April and October. So on each day, exams are conducted in two sessions, that is morning or fall on between 9 to 12 and afternoon between two to five. Okay. So there are six sessions. And if one is interested, they can actually take maximum six courses in a semester or certification purpose. So you can see the data what I am showing it right in front of you is there are 17 people who do 12 courses during the last year. Combining January and July semesters. Okay. So it's not only that students take only one or two courses, but there are a good number of students you can see even 10 courses were taken by 21 students for courses by more than 5000 students. There are a good number of NPTEL course takers 24 courses were taken by a student from Y University. So it's not only the students you can see the profile here is a student faculty other that means industry professional somewhere in his employed elsewhere students. He tilted actually was a faculty who are taking one number of courses in a semester from NPTEL NPTEL means so I mean all NPTEL courses and so on. Then this was so far the NPTEL for course delivery and certification. Okay. So should I continue. Yes, please. You can, we can take that portion. Yes, please. Is there a visit for these courses that I couldn't follow the audio as there was some issue. Can I just repeat it once again. Hello. Please. Yeah, take me sir. Okay. Any prerequisites for the courses are there for the students. I do not make out what you said. Hello. Are there any pre-requisites? Sir, ma'am and sir, each course may have a prerequisite, but for joining the course, there is no requirement as such. Anyone can join the course if they know that okay, they know the basics of this course and can take forward the faculty might have written that knowledge of such and this thing is essential. That is for understanding the course, but joining the course, we don't look for any prerequisite formal degree or something like that. Okay. So each course may have may or may not have some prerequisite knowledge to just understand the course being offered, but that does not bar any student or any learner to join the course. If they find that okay, they can learn the subject or prerequisite information from any other source we are very much comfortable. So good morning. Good morning. I have a couple of queries. Last slide you have shown that there are a number of people who have done 17 courses in a year, while at the same time you told that one cannot take more than six. So how was it possible that few people could do 17 courses in a year? Sir, I said it is between January to December 2022. So that means it has got two semesters, January and July. So six courses in each semester. Yeah, correct. Now, something Sir, many Thomas also asked the clarification about the prime minister research fellows. So how are you going to count the number of hours for them as a matter of counting the number of hours for the teaching purposes as it is mandatory for them. So how they are engaged for solving the NPTEL problems online for the audience. So how, how will we count their number of hours of engagement for that purpose. So each session, whether it is by the faculty or by PMRF scholars is for one hour standard. It may be 50 minutes or maybe one hour and minutes but average is one hour. So that's how we counted these many hours, these many sessions has been taken by the concerned PMRF scholar that will go into the records. Okay, so how can we engage them? Sir, right now I am not in a position to answer like how we engage with PMRF scholars of Jamia Emilia, but definitely if you just give me time, I'll come back on that. Maybe tomorrow Kamla one of my colleagues is coming to university. So I'll pass this message so that she can come prepared on this aspect and can discuss this. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. If there are any queries, I'll take that. Otherwise, I'll move forward. Dr. Das, I have two queries. So one was if a professor puts the material on contributes a course to NPTEL, whether in the subsequent semester the professor can update or improve the material, that's one. And the second one is how can we get the students, whether the students evaluate the instructor and whether that feedback is available to the instructor. The first part I'll tell you sir, as we were saying, first part was here. Whether we can update the faculty, suppose a faculty has created a course, say like, I just an example like cloud computing or Internet of Things. These are the areas which are frequently changing or maybe any other similar subject. So after one or two runs, if the faculty feels like blockchain, we just offered it twice, then the concerned faculty said that the information is absolutely not relevant. So this needs to be updated. So a lot of changes were taking place in the course. So this is very much possible. Okay, this is one part. The second part you said about the student giving feedback of the teacher. Yes, we do conduct differentiation on that, particularly after the exam is over. It's not only once they come out of the exam center or before they leave the exam center, we ask them a set of questions about the course, how they felt about the course, the pros and cons about it. That they produce it there, and also the weekly basis, if they are in a course after every week, they actually submit a feedback, which is actually passed on to the faculty so that we're offering the course they can have and a weekly update from the students The contents are being understood by the faculty what is wrong with that maybe the students are not getting a response from the faculty in the forum. All those feedbacks goes there but yes if you say about the rating of the faculty. No, it does not exist. So what do we do, we just see the NPTEL problem implementation committee looks at the feedbacks, and they take a call on that like okay, the faculty had such negative feedback so maybe next time we have to think twice for making him or her to offer. That's taken at a different level. Okay, thank you. Ma'am, just let me correct. First of all, I am not Dr. I'm still only currently I'm senior manager in the NPTEL office based program. So these are the highest number of NPTEL course takers. Then the other initiatives have been taken by NPTEL. First we tied up with UGC and ICT was a Swamp platform came into picture UGC and ICT to higher education regulators. They came up with a proposal that the universities and autonomous institutions can take up to 20% course credit from Swamp link courses this was the exact word in Swamp link courses. Later on during the COVID phase. This was enhanced to 40% by UGC. ICT is still 30%. So this 40% credit transfer is very much possible if the university feels so. Okay, now for this one what they have to do first go through the possible course list. As I have shown what is their NPTEL semester information, they can go through that identify the courses that they feel. If it is a rerun course, go to the particular course page that also I have shown where it is available and find the syllabus. If it is a 20 hour course what is the syllabus of that course. Okay, course structure and they take a final call and pass it on to the localities for maybe academic council or board of studies they take a final decision on that and the credit that they want to assign to that particular course. Okay, but only our suggestion is that the courses from some of these courses from IITs will be having math intensive courses. So first of all, it's better if you can choose some courses which are on a rerun. That means if yourself can actually have a look at the video, some of the assignments, they take a decision whether these courses should be suitable for a particular set of students or not. Okay, maybe you can ask them to take a course on say soft skill or not just to understand how the online course program runs what are the activities that are supposed to be taken care of. Not only that there is a program called if it is a local chapter, there is a concept called mentor. Many of the private engineering colleges they assign a mentor. They are actually taking these courses for credits, but again they are also assigning a faculty who will be maintaining a group of students. That means he or she will have a complete data about those students whether they are understanding they are submitting the assignments, what is their score in individual score, individual assignment score on a weekly basis. If they are falling behind, they can at least alert that one. If there is a difficulty in understanding, they can just help the students to the first level or encourage the students to write it to the forum. Many people even in a classroom, they don't come up and ask the question, they're pretty shy. So maybe this is a good option. They are anonymous learners. We really do not know who is writing into the forum. Once the students, once after the graduation, they go to the industry, it will be, primarily they have to, if they know the problem, they have to explain the problem to the higher authorities or the competent persons through mail. So this program that is writing into the forum is a good practice. The mentor can actually encourage them to write more on that, be more active on that, whether they have understood or not, if there is an issue. Okay, so mentoring really helps them. Then keep the courses, you can actually identify the set of courses and tell that, okay, these are the courses from where you're going to take this. Okay, set of courses that can be taken, then you give a flexibility, only we object that or other, we suggest that do not give or suggest any course, recommend any course for final year students or the final semester student. In case they fail in this course, then NPTEL or SWAYAM does not offer a supplementary exam provision, they do not have. Then it becomes a problem. So maybe you can keep it up to the previous semester, so that you really do not have any. Yes, NPTEL strictly goes by this timeline, but that may not be case with all national coordinators. So if you are taking the courses, please ensure that your results are out timely so that your certification process is not delayed. Okay, you can choose the courses which are not in your curriculum, particularly programming, data science, new electives being offered by NPTEL. All those courses can definitely be thought of. This is the first part. Again, we have as we have said, we have tied up with AI city that all you can say the advanced level courses are now marked as NPTEL courses and the faculty members if they take this course, after completion of the course they can actually separately write or register for NPTEL certification by paying a fee of rupees 100. A two week course is considered equivalent to half FDP of one week. A two week course is full FDP of one week and 12 week course is one and a half weeks FDP. That is how AI city has appropriate. Okay, and you can see on your right. Once you see the course card, click on to that it gives a similar structure here. This is an AI city approved AI course, FDP course. So that means these courses if the faculties are taking writing the exam and applying for the certificate, they will get the FDP certificate. And you can see the number of people who are taking these courses for FDP in the consecutive semesters. The exam registration faculty percentage if you see is more than 70, 75% enrollment and registration comes definitely from the student community who primarily take it for the credit, maybe for better job opportunity, get preparation and all, but almost 18 to 20% exam registration comes from faculty. So almost 20% of our actually enrolled candidates are primarily the faculty members from different colleges. Then we understand if it is a local chapter college that there is a single point of contact in the college who interacts with the local chapter who interacts with the NPTEL office. Whatever needs to be conveyed to the college we pass it on to the SPOC. So if your university is becoming a local chapter, they have to actually identify a faculty who will be the single point of contact from there. So we will be primarily interact with him or her, convey whatever courses, whatever new initiatives are being taken that goes there, come there, it is disseminated to the heads of the departments or whatever it is, the internal structure that moves on. Or even the students say some initiatives which are primarily targeted for the students that can also be given to the students. So they take a lot of pains. So how do we compensate them? So we thought, okay, the faculty members from the colleges who are acting as a SPOC might be attending some conference being organized in IIT, ISC or T4E conferences, organized anywhere. So if any of the paper is accepted for, say, publication or presentation, in that case we try to provide reimbursement of the travel expense and the registration fee for the faculty member. If they are the author and if they are single point of contact of local chapter college, we try to provide reimbursement of the travel expense and registration fees. Okay. Pre-preparation assistance for the gate exam. We have created a gate quota where the students can actually suppose a student is actually writing a course or appearing for gate exam in computer science. They can go to the computer science, that particular under gate page, they can go to the computer science. Then there are few subjects which are actually here marked for the gate. They can select that particular subject. Then from there, there is a mapping. Individuals say topics, if they look for a particular topic, it is marked which lecture, NPTEL lecture actually discusses on that. So they can directly go there and show you here. This is a gate portal. If we see here, gate syllabus mapping. Say I am from electronics and communication engineering. I am looking for analog circuits. I select say this topic. Then it gives links to a multiple number of lectures which are from NPTEL which are dealing with this. They can go through that. After going through, this mapping is there for all courses. Now comes, suppose I want to take a mock test just to access my preparation level. They can, I can go to the mock test. I can register for that and take mock test papers. So this is how we try to help the students in preparation of their gate examination, which is not only for admission to the graduate program, but also job opportunities in the PSU sectors. So now comes the NPTEL class. What we talked about the NPTEL is curriculum based courses which are offered in a particular timeline. That is during January to April and July to October. But suppose I am interested to take a course at my own time. Maybe in March I am interested or in April I want to start the course. I don't have to, I don't want to wait till the next round. It's not that if I have got about say 2000 courses, all 2000 courses are offered in every semester. The select course list of courses are only offered in a semester to semester basis. So if the course is not offered in the next semester, but I am interested to learn that course, NPTEL class is the platform. Yes, this is not free platform, we charge something, but it gives a flexibility that it is not a curriculum based course. Not only NPTEL courses, but there are many other courses which are non NPTEL courses, maybe some special workshops are being organized, they are available here. Anyone can join in this, complete the course within the flexible timeline of their own and also write the examination in a proctored manner, remote proctored manner from the comfort of their home and get a certificate. Okay, so this is NPTEL class which gives the particularly the working professionals a flexibility to take any course, be it a curriculum based course or is a short term course, some special training programs, all these things can be done through that. So for 10 hour courses we charge 1000 rupees for course fee, 20 hour courses, 2000 rupees as course fee, 3000 rupees is charged for 30 hour courses, and if they're writing for examination, 1500 plus GSTs payable for certification examination. This is NPTEL class, this gives the flexibility that I can take the course at any point of time as I may choose. The difference is that what I said, there are many nature of courses, you can see that there are some long term training programs which are of say four months to say six months to even 12 months duration. So these are on a specialized topic can also be taken under the NPTEL class umbrella by paying very easy fees. You can take the test courses, you can actually go to NPTEL class platform and explore what all courses are available under this internship. Now, as we said that okay we have got gradation in the certification is then 40, 40 to 59 successfully completed. 40 to 74 is elite, we put elite word on the certificate 75 to 89 put elite word on the certificate also a gold. So the silver color symbol we put it into the certificate we call it elite silver 90 to 100 you call it elite gold, the gold color symbol comes. Those who are in a post stopper position whose certificates carry 1% to 5% that still we market as 1% within top 1% to top 10% 5%. We give these students an opportunity to come for internship in any of the IITs. If the say a competing force has been taken by a student and he or she is a post stopper, then we offer the opportunity that if you are interested, you can come and work under the faculty for months. 2 or 3 months whatever it is. So the internship opportunity is available only for the local chapter students who are topper in a particular course. And we are giving a lot of stress now. This number is pretty low at this point of time but currently I am looking into that. We expect by June, July it should be at least four to five times increase in that. And those who are doing the internship we also get some CSR funding from agencies and provide them 5000 rupees per month to support their lodging and boarding expenses in the IIT campuses. There are few courses for which even online internship is also being provided. In addition to that on completion of the certificate once they submit the internship report to the faculty and to the imperial office we reimburse the stipend whatever we say this 5000 rupees per month and we provide them a certificate. The completion of the internship. These are the student-friendly initiative. And also if they are completing some courses, then Texas Instruments gives them an opportunity for either final placement or internship opportunity. So they are dedicated they are specified which are courses to be completed before they are students are considered for the internship or final placement. We are continuously working with the industry body so that our students who are doing well in the course they get an opportunity to either get an internship or placement offer. We are as you said we are working closely with our industry partners for different reasons. It's not only we take their help in offering or framing our board structure. We are also inviting them to offer the courses, whatever we say that we provide few ever to the SCST, PWP, physical disabled candidates. Where from we get the funding. We approach the industry bodies and some of them have been very generous to support us to the CSR whatever CSR fund we get from there. We try to provide 50% for you ever to the needy students. We are also actually talking to them and trying to find out internship opportunities, final recruitment for our students. And also, many of the industries are actually tied up with us. They're taking some of these selected courses for reskilling or upskilling of their existing workforce. Okay, and also we are actually inviting them for offering some special lectures is what the industry is looking for in the students. Different career prospects, how do they prepare for the job market. Actually, they are hearing from the industry experts. So we are conducting that also. Not only that we are also conducting the sub skill training through the industry. Industry associate as you said we are tied up with different segment of industries be it consumer electronics, educational sector or telecom networking government, we have got a lot many and we are exploring to include more and more industries into our so that our students can take benefit of that. These are the least of some of the universe. Many from the private sector, but also from the PSU and market like Glass Academy, Guarantees, shipbuilders, major like take Mahindra network. All segment you can see the stock and I have partners a long list is there with who we are closely working for the better students. They are conducting the live session as I said, to just surprise the students what the industry looks for and how do they prepare how the students should prepare for the future. NPTL talkers are being held in placement in any post factor you'll find it's written, which of the industry will benefit out of this knowledge. We asked the faculty, can you identify the industries. If you tell that okay, these are the industries which will be benefited by this knowledge, we try to relate these students, top out of this two course particular course to those industries will provide the data so that some of the students can take benefit of the industry's help in internship and up for final placement and we could actually place some of the students in different positions that infocates, they just make us another. Okay, soft skill training, we are actually it's not only offering technical training, but also we think that there is a need to improve the soft skill, you know, part of the students. So we are actually offering soft skill, not only soft skill courses, but dedicated soft skill trainings are also being organized into formats is a one program or three program. During these, we actually assess some of these employment assessment online interact with them mock interviews English test, we just train them on these. So if they attend this every day after the session is over, they're given some homework and completed, come back to the teacher interact with that next day on the next day. If they complete 80% of the total time being allocated for a particular session, then and complete all the activities they're given a certificate. It's not only certificate they benefit a lot because the impact of soft skill training some of the feedback that we have received from the students is speaks that okay, this really help them in their job opportunities for placement activities. Then, as I said earlier that we are paying a few ever 50% of the needy students, we definitely work with some of the corporate bodies, take the help in fun getting some funding through their corporate social responsibility and try to support the needy students from tier to tier three cities. These are the numbers from different cities who have been benefited out of these initiatives. From local chapters, you can see the map here, all points we are actually connected to most of the countries each and corner, look and corner of this country. Currently we are connected to about 5000 plus 1500 plus engineering and other general degree colleges who are connected as our local chapter translation. Yes, we understand it's not only the translating or converting the text transcript into English language. It makes sense if you can convert these lectures into regional languages. So we are in the process of converting each lecture that each course that it create in NPTEL once that completion part is over, we try to convert it into first in English text, then go for regional language translation. So you can just see here, all major Indian languages we are trying to actually convert it. If you just see the course list here, these are the courses, say advanced materials and processes. If I want to see the link is from that page, the course page, the real course page, their download link is there. From the downloading you can actually download in regional languages that same course contents. Translation is an ongoing process as the courses are being developed so naturally translation process is also taken up. We are taking the help of the faculty members from our local chapter colleges who have got expertise in the particular language as well as knows that subject. So once we convert the language, take video into a text transcript format, we share with the faculty, local faculty, take their help, definitely pay them some demonstration and with their assistance we convert it into as many as Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and such languages. Okay, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada all these languages. Then we are very active in social media and you can just explore LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the testimonies are there on the walls. We provide such t-shirts and other important things when goes to the top parts. We also conduct the lab workshops, particularly for the science subjects. We actually organize workshops say in Isar, so Isar Mohali. The faculty is there in Isar Mohali, they are conducting a one week session, during which maybe a hundred of students will be going there, they will stay in the campus. Within five days time, morning, afternoon, they will be taking some courses and on the sixth day they will be writing the exam. This is laboratory experiments. They will conduct, they will be going, undergoing some laboratory experiments on five days and the sixth days they will be taking the exam and into qualifying that they get a certificate. We charge very nominal, only 200 rupees. He starts for this and accommodation and other expenses are borne by the students. They are usually accommodated in the hostels of the particular institution. Then local chapter, as I said, local chapter, an institution is interested to become a local chapter. The procedure is very simple, a simple sample template is available. Just fill up the form. The information to be given is that what type of institution it is, who is the head of the institution, who is the single point of contact proposed from that institution, their contact details. It will come to us. It will take 15 days time on our part to approve the mechanism and we will open the local chapter page in website. And if you just go to the local chapter page, you will find the complete details. It would be the name of the local chapter SPOC in the page. And also if there are hundreds of students taking the courses for say last 10 semesters, complete data of the students are available there. Particularly for the NAC and NPA visits, many of the colleges will be asking us that we desperately need the participation of our students in the SOAM portal for NAC visit. So kindly provide us that. So all these informations are in the public domain, they can go there and download it for their purpose. Okay. So it is always there. You can see the colleges from each across the country. And based on the performance of the students from the particular college in different MPTL exams, we also provide some recognition to the colleges. Like based on the performance, if more number of students are in the say 90 plus elite goal, we give say 10 meters to that. So 10 into number of code stoppers or you can say elite goal, then 20 to the code stoppers, 5 to the elite silver. Like this we calculate the total score and 400 colleges are invited in workshops that we conduct in four journal workshops across Chennai, Bombay, Delhi and Kolkata. These are the four places we will conduct the workshops and the institution which is within the top 100 are actually invited there and luck is distributed there. So there are spaces that other colleges felicitated there. So top 100 colleges, top 10 colleges are rated A, AAA, 11 to 50 are rated AA and 51 to 100 are rated as A grade colleges. This is only for a particular semester. We have got about 48 local chapters outside India also because MPTL courses are also taken by people from different other countries. You can see many of the African countries, even South Asian countries, they are also participating in the MPTL activities and they have a local chapter in their institution. Local chapter participation has been a maximum. If you have got 25 lakh enrollment in a course, you have got almost 85 to 90% enrollment only from local chapter because many of the institutions are now taking the benefit of the credit transfer. Once the credit transfer framework is in place, students take these courses automatically. Local chapter participation, as I said, this is a percentage wise if you see from different states and active local chapters if there are at least 25 students writing the exam in a semester from a college and if 50% of them or 13 numbers of the students successfully complete the course, we call that is an active local chapter. And in the local chapter page that page that is that local chapter we market this is an active local chapter. If they are within 200 colleges, they will also mark this rated local chapter. Okay, statewide enrollment. It's not uniformly distributed but yes, other states which are are behind they are also picking up now. Primarily, until analysts reach out to the institution, talk to the academic administrators, it doesn't work. Moment spending a lot but until analysts, the academic administrators who are responsible for taking these courses in the credit framework, they actually are convinced and take to active states it doesn't work. In the local chapter colleges as you said you can choose. First, you can ask them to take some courses from the soft skill or English language courses some program language courses on maybe for the next set of students. You can ask some of the students to take skill based courses like AI machine learning IOT blockchain 3D printing and such and such IOT and all. They can take these courses for a great exam. As we said, initially it's good to take rerun courses because the videos are available. First set of assignments are available to that will give an opportunity for the students to go through and understand how the course will run. Top local chapter, as I said top 100 local chapters are rated in the last rating July to December. This was the rating. As you can see, Nathesh was University of Praknot Daily was the top of the IIT, Chenigarh University, Pinarasundh University, JLA, Madanapalde, Jecibhu's University, Faridabad, Indira Gandhi, Daily Technical University for Women, New Delhi, Guntur College and from college from Borupu. So there are 100 colleges not only 100 there are new, there are new categories under which the colleges are recognized. Mentoring as I said that faculties are encouraged to mentor the students so that if there is a gap in understanding the students can be supported locally by the faculty. So in that case, the faculty is mentoring the students based on the performance of the students the mentors also get a certificate of recognition by signed by the director item address who is the chairman of NPT program implementation committee. So requirement is only 10 months. If one of the student is mentored and if the student is getting 90 plus that's enough to get a mentor certificate. Otherwise, you need two students who are between 60 to 74. Sorry, here is a mistake. 8 is given to 75 to 89, 5 is given to 60 to 74, 20 is given to 90 plus. LC growth number is increasing day by day more and more colleges are becoming part of it, maybe because of either paid transfer or requirement of MBA, whatever reason. So next, these are the links to which you can see what are feedback shared by different stakeholders who have taken these courses during the last runs. This was so far the NPTEL and the different initiatives taken by NPTEL umbrella body, pricing, IITs, IIS, Bangalore. Recently, seeing the trend that okay, there is a steep challenge or there is a strong requirement of say professionals from the data science and applications area and there is a gap definitely. So IIT Madras actually started this initiative almost three years back, where it's an off campus program, the students come across the country, not across the country across the globe can actually enroll into the course and compete in an online. Okay, there is no age limit to join. I know there are quite a good number of people who are very, very senior, maybe 60 plus they are taking this course. Okay, just for learning or maybe for upskilling themselves. So the contents are online is no age limit. Industry people, they get, you can say up skill opportunities, students, they can get employability skill and actually the benefit is that you get a degree from IIT Madras. The features of that, okay, content is delivered online, but it's a very, very rigorous program. Periodically the students are assessed. Almost every month the students have to actually appear for in-person exams to their home which are remotely propped up but it's very, very difficult to copy anything from anywhere.  Okay, so they go through all of these processes and it has got complying with the NEP 2020, it has got multiple entry exit points. So after joining at the foundation level, it has got three levels, foundation, diploma and degree, data science and application program, I'll just tell you other way, like first if someone is interested whether a student from a regular program, or a student who has not enrolled anywhere, they can enroll into this program for that they first show their interest, they are given four weeks video content. Four weeks lecture materials are provided to them, they go through the lecture material, every week there is an assignment, they complete the assignment, these assignments are created. Based on the assignment trading of four weeks content, that is four assignments, based on their score, the student is either selected for final examination, that means they're given the permission to write the final qualifier exam, which will be based on the four weeks content. Okay, once they write the qualifier exam, if they get the minimum eligibility marks, they are admitted to the main program. Okay, this is the process. What is the requirement for data science application requirement is that you should have studied English and mathematics and physics in the class 10th level. That is the requirement for engineering degree if you should have studied English, sorry, physics and mathematics at the class 12th level. So data science program is open for not only engineering students or sign graduate students, it can also be taken by students from commerce, humanities or any other background. Okay, so they go through the qualifier process, get one one month video, submit four assignments, which are graded based on the performance, they are permitted to write the qualifier exam, if they get a qualifying mark, then they are admitted to the final program. If a student has already qualified to the J advance process, they can directly join into the program but they have to, they don't have to write the qualifier exam, but they will have to submit all four assignments. Based on the performance of the final qualifying exam, the students are given the say they identify how many courses can be taken by the students in the first semester. Whether it's a two or four, depending on the score in the final qualifying exam that number is decided.  In diploma in data science and application, it has got two articles in that diploma level, one is programming, another is data science. So the students if they want to complete the diploma and quit, they can do so. They will complete the required set of programming courses, required set of data science courses as the case may be. They will have two, you can say projects, and these projects will be evaluated by the industry. It's not that the known faculty will be evaluating, it will be directly evaluated and the interview has to be taken, the student will be facing the interview from the industry people. And after that they can quit with a diploma degree or else they can complete both the diploma and go for the final degree level. They complete third year and the fourth year they get a diploma degree and the degree comes with like diploma degree in data science and application or degree in electronic sciences.  If you just see the fee structure in a regular private engineering college, in any semester they charge not less than 50,000 rupees. I don't know about Bourbon colleges, but private colleges they charge definitely 50,000 class. So at least they pay 4,000 rupees for a full eight semester course, and here it is 3.67 lakhs. But electronic system course is little costly because it requires a lot of experiments in the IT campus, a lot of say practicals are part of that component. So that is little expensive, but that's very, very derivative course because it has been designed with industry bodies. Okay, so these are the career opportunities for both the courses, data science and application and electronic system. You can make maybe you can bring into the knowledge of the students, current students, if someone is interested, they can in addition to that, doing the regular degrees in Jamia Media, they can also pursue one of the diploma or maybe a parallel degree from IT Madras, because on completion of the BS degree they will be treated as alumni of IT Madras and they will be provided all opportunities what an in-campus students get like internship and placement assistants. So internship, placement assistants are as usual like on campus students and on completion of BS degree, they'll be getting alumni status of IT Madras. So this is a very good program, maybe you can bring it to the notice of individual stakeholders. With this, I'll put my talk here. This is the last program where the students who attended the something like you can say convocation or the FIST, which has conducted in IT campus, all students who are in the program. Currently student number in that program, data science program is 17,000, it's a very big number and numbers are really growing. So this was the last meeting what we had. Now our next program is there the coming month, the end of May, we'll be having again a same meeting of all students, they've come to the campus, 2,000 students and they'll be enjoying the IT Madras slide there for a few days. So with this, I thank you everyone. If there are any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer to your queries. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Das. There are some questions. Sir, I have some questions. Yes, please go ahead. You know, UGC has mentioned that after 40% we can go for slime pools. See, on one hand, UGC is saying that go for slime pools that to significant 40%. On the other hand, we produce bulk of the IT swathers. Yes. So what will be the impact on the employment? No, what I say, government has might have given 40% privileges. I understand since for the workshops and all we frequently travel to remote corners of the country. There are many colleges where we really do not have adequate number of faculty members. Maybe for them is good. And not only that. They have revised the syllabus sometime around 2018. Then next revision may take about 10 years time. It may take. But the industry scenario because of the industry 4.0. The job opportunities, the requirement from the industry is changing very rapidly. So our academic programs may not be able to match the requirement of the industry instant. It may take some time. There's a normal process. Even IITs, they do not regularly update. It takes few years to update the syllabus. But since we are offering the courses from the emerging areas, if you feel that, okay, at the end of four years, your students should be getting a job. And the person who is coming from the industry, they will be looking not only at a degree from your base. Say a person is coming from an IT sector. They are interviewing a 60 students of a batch of 60 students. How many people they will be taking? Maybe two, three, five people will be taken. Who are the five people who will be taken through this? Consider a scenario that because of the change in industry scenario. Today, if I work in a project where I need the knowledge of Java, tomorrow I may be shifted to a project that will need knowledge of another language. And there will not be any teacher in my college who will be teaching me in the industry. So I really need to learn how to learn myself. So until and unless the students are exposed to self-learning mechanism through such modes, it will become difficult for the students to learn themselves in industry. On the emerging areas. Okay, sir. One more question is about, IITs are not, I mean, hoping for this, why is it so? No, no, no, no, I think there is a communication there. If you just see IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee, IIT Bombay, IIT Dhulli, Delhi, IIT Tirupati, all have adopted. Some other, Kharkur has adopted in a different way. All IITs have adopted in some or other way. Some has given said, okay, you take it for a trade transfer at undergraduate level. Like since I was from IIT, Kharkur, here they have adopted like if someone working professionally is joining in a PhD program. Earlier requirement is that the courses prescribed by the doctoral scrutiny committee has to be done in physical mode being in the campus. But now that clause has been removed. They say you can take these courses from the soil. So the DSC committee prescribes the courses which are there in the soil. So they have adopted in some or other way. All IITs, even NITs have accepted it. Yeah, in a university setup, we do have other branches, other departments, for example, we have management, we have art, we have language. And there are no such course available on some sample it form for such courses. So how can we add up that problem because in future we have to implement the thing in the entire university. NPTEL is primarily mandated to offer the courses from engineering and technology. Okay, just because we have got absolutely good departments from basic sciences, humanities, social science and management, we are offering a large number of courses from that discipline too. But yes, are we offering the courses which are required for the general degree colleges in adequate numbers may not be the right. We are not offering definitely. But for them, you have been given the opportunity to take the courses from UGC and CEC. Because each national coordinator has been given certain target that you focus on that. So you will get some course which are coming from other other coordinators. But IITs under the umbrella NPTEL, they are offering good number of courses from all these areas. You can look for the courses from NPTEL if you do not get it. Maybe you will get it from UGC or CEC who are primarily focusing curriculums of general degree, general universities or general degree colleges. Okay, thank you sir. Any other questions from the audience? Yes sir. Sir, if you can come to the mic because you are talking the other side. I can see you sir, you can just hear me. Actually, in the MBA requirement, we have to calculate the CO-attentment for each individual courses. Then we have to do the COPO mapping and we have to find out the CO-attentment for a particular UG or PT program. If different students are taking, first thing is when the student is doing a particular NPTEL course, how we can find out the CO-attentment for that course? How many COs are there, how many CO-attentments to which level? Then we have to do the COPO mapping and we have to work out the CO-attentment. CO-attentment is for a particular batch and for a particular curriculum. But students are taking different courses and courses are not the same. It is very difficult to find out the CO-attentment for a particular batch or for a particular course. How to tackle this problem? I really possibly don't have the answer at this point because we are only providing a platform where the faculties are offering the courses, aligning in this thing. But maybe the outcomes, what is the course outcome? Possibly it is written in the syllabus template as well as the faculty has, once you go to the portal, it gives an introductory video where faculty is telling in the video, two to five minutes video that what is the learning outcome of this particular course? What are the things that the students will be able to learn theoretically and practically? Possibly the COPO mapping, what you are talking since these terms are also not known to me actually. But I understand it is a course outcome and possibly program outcome. So maybe some sort of help has to be taken from the syllabus. And the first introductory video given by the faculty where the faculty has mentioned the learning outcome of that particular course. Sir, I have a question. How can we contribute in developing a course on NPTEL portal? If you are offering a course, one thing is that the course domain it is. If it is an engineering curricula, then NPTEL is the platform. For that, either you cannot, since the certificate as I have told earlier also, certificate comes from IIT. So if you feel that you want to offer a course in NPTEL, then you have to tie up with some faculty from IIT system, then jointly offer the course. Otherwise, you can actually approach CEC or UGC because CEC and UGC are also offering some courses from the engineering disciplines. You can directly interact with the CEC and UGC and alone without involving any other faculty can offer the course. If you see the computer science courses, they are not only coming from IITs, they are also coming from CEC and UGC. UGC actually doesn't work. CEC is the main body now. Is there any other question? Thank you. So let me present the vote of thanks. Firstly, we are highly thankful to NPTEL team from IIT Madras for taking time and delivering this workshop on a short notice. We are highly thankful. We are highly thankful to the entire faculty of engineering, head of departments, faculty members, particularly faculty members from Polytechnique for turning up in a large number and making this program a success. We are thankful to CIT people for providing support in efficiently running the program. We are thankful to the staff of Dean faculty of engineering for their support. I am again thankful to all the faculty members of the faculty of engineering for turning up for this event and making this event a grand success. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Thank you. So should we close the program? Ma'am, you want to say something. I wish to thank everyone. And as I said in the beginning tomorrow, we have two people from IIT Madras coming over here. So we have an interaction from two to three. Right now, we have invited all the heads of the departments and the Swayam coordinators of each department and two people who are coordinating the curriculum revision. If anybody else wish to attend, let me know right now. Dr. Sabha has made a request regarding placements. If anybody else wants to attend, let me know so that we can make arrangements. Right now we have planned it in the Dean's office, the committee room in the Dean's office because we'll have around 15 people. So if anybody else wants to attend, they are welcome. Only thing is if there are large number, we'll change the venue. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We will take this forward. Two to three. Two to three. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Divya. Sir, we can close the meeting. Okay, sir. Thank you. Thank you all.