The IT literacy course designed by the Odisha Knowledge Corporation limited (O KCl) is now considered necessary for all Government employees for recruitment and promotion. This was discussed at a high-level meeting held underchairmanship of Chief Secretary Jugal Kishore Mohapatra on Wednesday.
The course designed by the OKCl has been named as OS-CIT, a complete computer course for every citizen. The proposal for making this course mandatory for recruitment and promotion was discussed at the meeting.
The Chief Secretary directed Principal Secretary, Higher Education Gagan Kumar Dhal to initiate a proposal in this regard for necessary Government orders. He also advised the OKCl and the Department of Higher Education to design IT literacy courses for students at the secondary and higher secondary levels.
Mohapatra directed that specific arrangements for imparting of teaching, learning and examination and award of co-branded certificates on IT courses be developed through joint efforts of the CHSE (Council of Higher Education), BSE (Board of Secondary Education) and OKCl. The OKCl was also advised to devise user-friendly modules for senior citizens so as to enable them to have contact with their sons, grandsons, family members staying away from family and to facilitate their day-to-day transactions.
The OKCl, which has been set up as a public limited company through joint equities of the State Government and MKCl (Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation ltd), has taken up e-learning, e-empowerment and e-governance projects for promotion of IT (Information Technology) and ITES (Information Technology-Enabled Services). In its e-learning process, the learner is exposed to world-class real life case studies of socially useful and productive outputs.
For carrying the opportunity to more people, the OKCl has already promoted 224 AlCs (Authorised learning Centres) in different parts of the State on PPP mode and more than 1,379 learners have been registered till now. OKCl Managing Director Santosh Birari said another 800 centres would be opened during 2014. The OKCl has completed a Gram Sabha Sashaktikaran Karyakram in which massive data of Gram Sabhas could be done on the very next day of the conduct of a Gram Sabha.
It was decided at the meeting that the premier universities of the State would be accepted as equity partners in the OKCl. It was also decided that university digitisation and CHSE computerisation would be done through the OKCl. The corporation has envisaged future projects like Secured Remote Paper Distribution process for examination in colleges to avoid leak of question papers and practise sets of question papers for engineering and medical students.