New Delhi, 25 Mar: Do you love reading comics? Then there is good news for you.
On March 25th 2021, in an innovative initiative, our Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launched 100 comic books based on topics/subjects from National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks. These topics have been carefully chosen, to help students understand concepts and gain practical knowledge as opposed to rote learning. The comics were created by teachers and children of various schools under Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and curated (carefully chosen and organized) by the NCERT.
An important aim of the initiative is also to make students aware of the cultural and social diversity existing in India through various characters and storylines of these comics. This step is aimed to provide holistic (all-round) learning to students under the new National Education Policy and make them creative, out of the box thinkers. The three ways to access this content is by DIKSHA web portal (diksha.gov.in), DISKHA app (android Smartphone) and a WhatsApp powered Chatbot.
Each comic is carefully designed with a specific learning objective. It starts with an introduction to the storyline and characters of the comic followed by narration. Fun worksheets, to reinforce the learning objective are also provided. Some important topics like, consumer rights, money and credit, sectors of Indian industries etc. are covered as comics to make kids understand important day to day concepts.
