Free Internet to Passengers at Railway Stations (RailWire)

Free Internet to Passengers at Railway Stations (RailWire)

Indian Railway is providing free Wi-Fi Broadband facility to its passengers. This initiative was taken to contribute towards the fulfillment of Digital India dream.

This project has been taken by RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, in collaboration with Google as the technology partner.

The initiative started initially by providing this service to 400 stations around India, but as of now the number has increased to 1600 stations being connected with the fast free Wi-Fi connectivity.

This service has provided numerous benefits to the regular as well as occasional travelers. Many a times we have face the cellular network problems at railway stations, which give a hard challenge to take updates about the train running status and  use other Internet services. But RailWire has given the solution to this by providing a fast and free  Internet with strong signal quality in its railway platforms and surrounding coverage areas.

People have also started using this service to kill their boring wait time for trains by watching Youtube, listening online musics and many other stuff for entertainment.

There were also some news about some youths using this network for their study and preparation of different competitive exams.

Therefore, we hope that Government will keep taking up initiatives like this and will make this service available to remaining stations soon.

Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Higher Education as a tool for learning.

Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Higher Education as a tool for learning.

Learning is a never ending process and so is the adaptation of teaching process using technological tools. In past we have been using teaching Aids like smart board,projectors etc. to provide interactive learning.

But the technology is changing around us, thre are many tools available in the market which can be used to share and spread knowledge.

Among the many, online learning or e-learning has become very popular and widely acceptable for the higher learning methodologies, because it provides one major benefit is that you can learn from anywhere at anytime.

Government of India has taken initiative by launching SWAYAM ( a portal from where you can learn many subjects and also acquire certificates).

In order to ensure that best quality content is produced and delivered, nine National Coordinators have been appointed. They are:

1.   AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses
2.   NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering
3.   UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education
4.   CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education
5.   NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education
6.   NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education
7.   IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students
8.   IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies
9.   NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme

Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates. 


References: 
https://swayam.gov.in/

How to make website using HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), is a very simple and easy to learn language. But now a days many Content Management System (CMS) applications are easily available that can be used to create website in very simple steps.

We are just few clicks away from publishing our business or organizations website on this huge network where 4.33 Billion active users world wide can go through our contents.

Some popular and free CMS's platforms are:

1. WordPress
2. Joomla – Open Source CMS
3. Drupal
4. Thunder
5. Ghost – Web Content Management System

In India, to develop a standard website for Government organizations, we have to meet the GIGW guidelines.

The GIGW guidelines are available on the website 👉 https://web.guidelines.gov.in/ to registered users only.

References: https://web.guidelines.gov.in/