West Bengal - DIKSHA

About Us

The DIKSHA platform in West Bengal is a state-led digital learning initiative that is academically anchored by the Directorate of SCERT and is managed by the School Education Department, Government of West Bengal.
This initiative is the result of a continuous voyage that commenced in 2018, when SCERT presented its initial digital content strategy to the 14th Project Approval Board (PAB) of Samagra Shiksha. Since that time, the program has received the endorsement and support of each annual PAB from 2018 to 2024. Each PAB has approved cumulative allocations for content creation, training, digital textbook development, and platform integration.
SCERT, the academic nodal agency, is responsible for the review, curation, and upload of all digital learning materials submitted by the appropriate academic authorities at each level-namely the Boards, CSE and PBSSM-to ensure quality assurance, curriculum alignment and compliance with DIKSHA standards. These resources encompass assessments, professional development content, digital teaching-learning modules, and energized textbooks.

Mission & Vision

Mission

The Department of School Education aims at the overall growth, development and progression of Students, Teachers and Headmasters. In order to promote 'Education First', the Department has specified the following goals:

Free access to education for all - across all religions, gender, class, race and region.
To ensure all students are treated equally and no discrimination is made on the basis of race, religion, gender and class.
To ensure gender equity in education.
To ensure enrolment of 100% girl students, including the girls coming from backward, reserved and minority communities.
To ensure and maintain better hygiene and sanitation levels in all schools by having separate toilets for boys and girls, availability of water for washing and drinking, clean environment to study and learn.
To ensure and maintain quality education by recruiting trained teachers, encouraging quality teaching and learning and provisioning appropriate teaching learning aids.
To ensure quality training of teachers with specific emphasis on student centric teaching and interactive learning.
To make appropriate arrangements for training of untrained teachers.
To rationalize pupil teacher ratio across all school levels.
To ensure that all Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools are ICT enabled. To further encourage Computer Education and Literacy.
To equip secondary and higher secondary schools with library and laboratory facilities.
To ensure enrolment at the higher secondary level of all students who have passed secondary level of education.

Vision

In order to enable inclusive, outcome-based, and future-ready education across all districts, West Bengal wants to guarantee that by 2026, all teachers and students in government and government-aided schools have fair access to curriculum-aligned, multilingual digital content and certified professional training modules through the DIKSHA platform, which is run by SCERT.

Objectives

Objectives of the DIKSHA Initiative in West Bengal:

Augment Digital Accessibility: Offer complimentary, multilingual digital educational resources to all students and educators throughout West Bengal via an inclusive and accessible platform.

Curriculum Alignment: Upload and sustain dynamic textbooks, interactive modules, and ancillary materials consistent with WBBPE, WBBSE and WBCHSE curricula.

Teacher Empowerment: Facilitate Continuous Professional Development (CPD) via DIKSHA-hosted training modules and certification programs for educators.

Information Quality and Localization: Advocate for the creation, curation, and evaluation of information that is localized, culturally pertinent, and pedagogically robust.

Sustainable Capacity Building: Implement a decentralized academic and technical support framework at district and institutional tiers to ensure long-term sustainability.

Real-Time Monitoring and Feedback Employ analytical dashboards and stakeholder feedback systems to perpetually enhance content quality and user experience.