Airtel Business partners with the Ministry of Education to power Government of India’s Ed-Tech platform – DIKSHA
Airtel’s low latency and high-bandwidth Edge CDN solution will now power DIKSHA – India’s largest digital education content platform for students across 28 states and 8 Union Territories
City Air News
Jun 6, 2023 09:27
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Chandigarh, June 6, 2023: Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, today, announced that it has won the Cloud and CDN mandate from the Digital India Corporation (DIC) to power DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) – India’s national platform for open education digital content. DIC is under the aegis of the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.
With this mandate, Airtel becomes the trusted partner for end-to-end management of DIKSHA’s online platforms across its mobile application and website. The DIKSHA application and website will now be powered by Airtel Cloud and will be made seamlessly accessible to students across the country for free educational content in their preferred Indian language. Students, particularly in far-flung and remote locations, will be able to easily enrol onto the platform. Airtel Cloud will also lead the migration of DIKSHA to Oracle Cloud and offer its managed services along with CDN solutions.
Praveen Agarwal, Head – Govt. Business, Airtel Business, added, “DIKSHA offers 9300+ courses in 35+ Indian languages and has witnessed 50+ billion learning sessions and 60+ billion minutes of usage by students, making it one of the largest free education platforms in the world. We are thrilled to partner with the Ministry of Education to bolster this crucial education infrastructure and advance its accessibility to millions of children across the country with our state-of-the-art cloud and CDN services.”
