PANDEMIC PARADIGM: BOOTING NATIONAL EDUCATION-STACK WITH PRAGYATA SUBJECT: EDUCATION

Sudhir Khullar Post Graduate Teacher [English], Atomic Energy Junior College, Anushaktinagar Mumbai-400094. ...................................................................................................................... Manuscript Info Abstract ......................... ........................................................................ Manuscript History Received: 25 June 2020 Final Accepted: 30 July 2020 Published: August 2020

piloted by MHRD -to reform, direct and equalize education opportunities to all the stakeholders and to fulfil integrated systemic approach towards Samagra Shiksha -will require bigger and compartmentalized (clustercentric) clearing houses in cloud computing interface to disseminate customized content to learners in locations 947 ranging from cities, towns and villages to the Special Education Zones. For this, the apex planners like NUEPA, SIEMATs, CABE, EdCIL, CIET-NCERT, SIETs, SCERTs, DoSEL, & NCTE will then be devising new collaborative action research and innovations to affect synchronous/asynchronous academic structures for quality assurance. New CPD models will thence create a novel impact on practice. Adopting ODL models like Canada's (TRU-OL) or SWAYAM from elementary to higher secondary levels can serve as pillars of the new education system and as bulwark against future pandemics. 2. Verbatim: 'Platforms (especially online platforms) will be developed so that teachers may share ideas and best practices. Each teacher will be expected to participate in at least 50 hours of CPD opportunities every year for their own professional development, driven by their own interests'. (NEP-2020, page 22) 3 One-time-investment: With its bold step towards 'Aspirational India', the SMSA will adopt OECD-like model by investing 4-5% of the budget in education sector. Web-based tools and applications will be the right investment in phased manner for strengthening digital infrastructure with some terminology comprising 'fees' replaced with bespoke 'user charges' as per the norms already laid in fee/fund structure. Maintenance contracts, cloud-pricing and peer review of grantsin-aid allocated by MHRD for the upkeep, cost, speed, system and cyber-security can be governed as per the rules under 228 -245 of the GFR -a matter of separate research.
A comprehensive cloud-based authentic repository: A learner's android/tablet can access valuable programmes without being in a specific location. The back-end repository authority (NCERT/SCERTs) can analyze and scale respective services as per the specific needs. The repository/ies, in their respective hybrid clouds, can be re-pooled, overlapped, extended, re-edited, reviewed, assorted, updated and channelized as per the e-content contributions by the selected educators from the centre/states. The selected educators can be from those amongst the teachers who pool all the best e-contents to integrate topicsubject wide presentations in the multimedia formats. All teachers will strive to present their best content under the guidance of IBCDs. The on-premises private cloud service of specific Boards/States can automate data dissemination/streaming to the sub-district level management using 'Lite' versions of workstations.

Quality and Equality:
There is no single platform which gives equity to all stakeholders.

Efficiency in school management and innovations in teaching:
The on-line streaming can give insights, investigations, interpretations and critical analysis of educational reforms in the centre as well as states. It will give faster inputs for an effective management and quality outputs. Innovations in teaching will be aptly noted, incentivized/rewarded. Reformation by supervision on institutional climate, students' attitudes, counseling, collaborative community/CSO participation, group dynamics and local level administration, can be implemented more efficiently. Online assessment using specific questionnaires or Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ), Halpin and Croft model can be designed for getting a true and instant feedback on integrity, excellence and morale.

Learners' needs are catered well:
Concurrent physical consolidation of annual planning and its review -from clusters to districts, then states to centre -is a tortuous task with little accountability. Curriculum designing, infrastructural requirements, quality and equity jointly focus on enrolling and retaining learners. The recent survey by MHRD 'Learning Enhancement Programme' has shown that most of the states have yet to map exact data on LDLD/NDLD learners. Their survey also shows that students' online experience is joyful. With proper spatial mapping and DISE, the local administrators can locate and register schools with the central cloud. Almost all the central programmes -the creative and critical thinking programmes, skills, AIL etc. -can be accessed and displayed online across the states. All learners will enjoy equal 'Right to Know and Do' in multilingual formats, and can attempt online tests -fair competition. Analytics and engagements with the online projects will keep pan-Indian peers 'in loop', and give them unique platforms for showcasing their respective talents to garner appreciations and rewards. Schools will start using indigenous hub of teamwork designed on par with 'Microsoft Teams' which would serve students/teachers with e-notebooks, collaboration space, content library, SharePoint, chats, bots, screen-sharing, presentations, assignments, on-line tests (like MS-365 Forms), scheduling classes etc. Integrated BRCs/CRCs -IBCD can pool school level test papers in each subject area for each grade. 950

In-text: Detailed Project Report for School Education MMP -Draft Copy, Project Background, Page 9
The connotation of Point 25 in the List III [concurrent list] in the 7 th Schedule under Article 246 empowers centre as well as the states to jointly agree, focus and participate in channelizing quality education for the learners though innovations and skilled network undisputedly tilt towards the center.
Weaknesses and Threats: For a limited period -1) Data breaches: Data may fall victim to natural disasters, internal bugs and hackers, but encryption keys will be in the hands of rightful authority -NROER/CIET/SCERTs. 2) Wireless 4G: With 54.29 % internet users, India is pegged at the 2 nd position, next only to China. As per the National Digital Communication Policy, NDCP-2018, India is in-the-making of rural optic fibre to connect 600,000 villages with BharatNet; also is committed to its 2022 goals of providing universal connectivity at 50 Mbps to every citizen and 1 Gbps to all Gram Panchayats. Every effort is being taken by several NGOs, CSOs and CSRs to extend internet literacy till the remotest location. https://dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/EnglishPolicy-NDCP.pdf

ECCE/ICDS & MDMS not included:
Digital infrastructure is plan-B. ECCE will resume post-lockdown. MDMS can provide dry ration to learners with online/offline attendance compliance. Several education commissions recommended restructuring and equalizing education opportunities, specially for the marginalized children, also building excellence in the educational system to meet the knowledge challenges of the 21 st century. What we sow today will belong to the future societies and their holistic development.

Not an antidote or panacea:
The digital infrastructure of cloud service can be a plan either in the offing or a NITI implementation plan by 2030. It can be a support system with blended teaching-learning initiation as its first step. The 2021s' is going to step into a new era of education.

Discussion And Conclusion:-
Post-independence, several commissions (1948, 1952, 1964-66, NPE-1968, 1986& POA 1992, NCF-2005and NEP-2020 have been appointed to survey, study, review and recommend improvements in the different sectors of education. Each commission advocated for equity and quality education for all. It's time to be cloud confident in the changing classroom scenarios. It's time also to redefine and restructure task forces at each level with due respect to NPE1968-1986-POA-1992, UCF-2005 and NEP-2020. All the levels of administrators -ministries, deputies, Secretaries, Directors, CEOs, DEOs, BOs, BRCCs, CRCCs and VECs have one vision and mission i.e. to implement NEP-2020 in due course of the next decade. An action task force of academic-technical machinery can resolve and refill education gaps. Though watertight e-learning models and IoT with UIDs can't create a Utopia for myopic vision, a phased and strategic national education-stack can do such miracles in the next decade, which several 951 previous policies and plans of action couldn't show in the past decades. Though prior and the present researches have shown mixed results of the experimentation conducted on students to find the effect of offline/online mode of learning, it's evident that due to the advent of social media and information flood, the digital natives win; it's a transition phase of millennial changes in teaching learning techniques, so it'll take due course of time. The gradual widening of open schooling, blended models and ODLs will give specific choices to the learners, and assessment will shift from the textual to the highly objective learning in order to acquire learner-specific skills.
The role of teaching is to provide an opportunity to each child to learn to the best of his or her ability and provide learning experiences that develop cognitive qualities, physical well-being and athletic qualities, as also affective and aesthetic qualities. In-text NCF-2005, Page 75.
The evidences and generalized conclusions in favour of national Education-stack stem from news, articles, projects and innovations galore. Each ecosystem has a web of links, presentations and packages. The new normal is yet to disseminate the mentoring tools and techniques for the educators and the learners alike. Psycho-pedagogic experiments have not yet gifted us accurate results as to how can't a positive learning atmosphere intervene to alter internet habits of learners devoting several hours to chatting and surfing! One nation, one technology policy can help each stakeholder to understand the constitutional value of cooperative and competitive federalism to uphold and grow.