Bihar

• 02 Nov 2023

Bihar Among Top Three States in Diet Activities

Why In News?

According to the information received from the media on November 1, 2023, the Department of School Education and Literacy under the Union Ministry of Education has released the ranking of October on the basis of DIET activities of all the states, in which Bihar is included in the top three states. In this, Kerala is at first place and Maharashtra is at second place.

Key Points:  

• In the last two years, the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has continuously engaged all the DIETs of Bihar in educational development. The Ministry of Education has released the ranking for the first time to know how important is the support of DIET in educational work.
• DIET of Bihar is at the top in imparting new techniques to teachers on Diksha portal. There are 33 district education and training institutes in Bihar, digital courses are being created for development, the medium of operation is DIET.
• In the first phase, a digital course was prepared covering all 33 DIETs of the state. Bihar ranks first in the country in preparing and conducting digital courses. All the diets here have designed and launched their own digital courses.  
• In the last one year, more than two lakh teachers were trained and small courses were designed at the district level. With this, teachers are able to join online and do these courses.  
• A total of 93 thousand 670 teachers of the state have joined the Diksha portal. These teachers now do not need to go anywhere to do any course.