Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing

DIKSHA (Digital Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure) is the Government of India's national digital platform for school education. Built and maintained by the NCERT under the aegis of the Ministry of Education (MoE), it delivers open educational resources (OER), large‑scale teacher professional development, analytics and a suite of interoperable digital services in 36 Indian languages.^[1]

DIKSHA
Original author(s)	NCERT
Developer(s)	Ministry of Education, Government of India
Initial release	September 5, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-09-05)
Written in	Java; Node.js (Sunbird micro‑services)
Operating system	Cross‑platform (Web, Android, iOS)
Available in	36 Indian languages and 7 foreign languages
Type	Learning management system; OER repository
License	MIT (platform) Various Creative Commons licences for content
Website	diksha.gov.in

The platform was declared India's "One Nation, One Digital Platform" for school education in May 2020 as part of the PM e‑Vidya programme announced during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

History

• September 2017 – Strategy paper for the National Teacher Platform released by then HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar; public launch on 5 September 2017 (Teachers' Day) by Vice‑President M. Venkaiah Naidu.^[3]
• May 2020 – Integrated into PM e‑Vidya as the core digital pillar during nationwide school closures.^[4]
• July 2021 – Identified by the Prime Minister as a foundational building block of the National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR).^[5]
• April 2025 – 6,600 Energised textbooks and over 10,000 QR‑linked resources showcased at the YUGM Conclave.^[6]

Architecture

DIKSHA runs on Sunbird—an MIT‑licensed micro‑services stack of more than 100 building blocks created for internet‑scale learning platforms.^[7]

• Federated identities and Single-Sign-On
• Interoperability via LTI, QR codes, and NDEAR registries
• Real-time analytics dashboards

Features

Capability	Description
Energised textbooks	Print textbooks from NCERT and 25 state boards carry QR codes that open aligned digital assets on DIKSHA (videos, simulations, worksheets).[6]
VidyaDaan crowdsourcing	Programme inviting stakeholders to donate e‑content. Over 300,000 resources curated.[8]
Teacher professional development	Massive open online courses. The NISHTHA series has issued 14 million certificates.[5]
Accessibility suite	Includes 3,520 ISL videos, 10,000-word dictionary, audiobooks and screen-reader compatibility.[2]
Analytics dashboards	Provides metrics by state, district, school and user.

Adoption and usage

• Adopted by all 36 States and UTs, CBSE, NIOS and Kendriya Vidyalaya.^[9]
• As of July 2022: 5.8 billion sessions, 3.8 billion hits, 292,000 live contents.^[2]
• During March–October 2020: 10 billion page views, 450 million QR scans.^[10]

Related initiatives

• PM eVIDYA – Broadcasts DIKSHA content on 12 DTH channels.^[11]
• iGOT-DIKSHA – Separate DIKSHA instance for training frontline workers.^[12]

Licensing

• NCERT textbooks: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• VidyaDaan content: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 by default^[13]

Challenges

Persistent issues include:

• Urban–rural digital divide
• Varied digital literacy
• Inconsistent quality of contributed content
• Infrastructure scaling for peak demand^[14][15]

Future roadmap

The 2024–2027 roadmap includes:

• Adaptive learning technologies
• Enhanced offline features
• Expanded vocational training content^[16]

See also

• India portal

• Education in India
• National Digital Library of India
• SWAYAM
• Digital India