Overview - Utkarsh Society of Haryana

Digital learning serves an immensely significant purpose of making education available to the pupils who cannot be a part of a physical classroom.

• ● To assist in developmental, social, educational, health, literary, cultural, research programmes.
• ● To assist in knowledge packaging for face-to-face and self-paced learning, EDUSAT technical possibilities, promotion of e-learning and management of interactivity in educational media.
• ● To collaborate with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), National Institute of Open Schooling and other such organizations/institutes in various educational schemes and programmes.
• ● To devise, organize, encourage and promote the use of science and technology in the management, administration and planning of educational programmes.
• ● To organize and conduct training and instruction programmes, lectures, seminars and conferences using EDUSAT and other technologies for college/school students.
• ● To collect, publish, distribute and broadcast educational and data, reports and other such informative materials including posters, periodicals etc. relating to the use of technology in general and EDUSAT in particular.
• ● To establish and maintain a library on the use of technology in education and allied subjects.
• ● To participate in the programmes relating to and/or incorporating the use of technology in education and EDUSAT within the country and abroad.
• ● To help develop cooperation between people, organizations and agencies interested in the promotion of technology in education and the use of EDUSAST.
• ● To maintain a film, video and/or audio library and arrange film shows on use of technology including EDUSAT in schools and colleges.
• ● To launch language labs for imparting language training to students in schools and colleges.
• ● To secure recognition and financial assistance from the central and state government for carrying out the aims and objectives of the society.
• ● To borrow funds and accept grant and donations (in cash/securities/movable or immovable properties) for the maintenance of the society and carrying out its objectives.
• ● To collect and recover subscription and other fees and charge for services rendered.
• ● To propagate the aims and objects of the Society through advertisements in the press and through audio-visual and other means.
• ● To purchases, take on lease or otherwise, acquire any land or building, which may be necessary for the Society.
• ● To sell, lease, exchange and otherwise transfer all or any of the properties of the Society.
• ● To assist in the formation of the local centres to use for the encouragement of use of EDUSAT and other technologies in education.
• ● To award commendation certificates, prizes, trophies etc. to the participants in the various programmes related to EDUSAT and other technologies in education.
• ● To render advice, assistance and guidance on matters relating to members of the Society.
• ● To conduct case studies and to prepare scheme of EDUSAT and use of other technologies in Education.
• ● To invest funds, money and/or security entrusted to the society from time to time.
• ● To establish, subscribe, support, cooperate, amalgamate with and/or become a member of any other association, society, institution or company, whether incorporated or not, whose objects are in all or part similar to those of the Society and procure the recognition of the Society where considered necessary.
• ● To enrol various categories of members from among government, companies, associations, institutions and organizations, whether incorporated or not, and individuals and to afford them the benefit of projects publications, research and other activities of the Society.
• ● To draw, accept, make, endorse, discount and deposit government and other promissory notes/bills of exchange/cheques/other negotiable instruments for carrying out the aims and objects of the Society.
• ● To do all lawful acts as the Society may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of the aforesaid aims and objectives.

Digital learning serves an immensely significant purpose of making education available to the pupils who cannot be a part of a physical classroom. This mode is effective, far-reaching and time-saving for aspiring students across the country. With its various new techniques, distance education provides learning opportunities across massive geographical distance between the learner and the teacher. It makes interaction between the two possible even if they’re not in a face-to-face setting like a classroom. Nowadays, distance education is incorporating new technology to make the learning experience more realistic and closer to an actual classroom setting.

EDUSAT is one such mode that incorporates elements of both distance education and classroom teaching using technology. You may also know it as teleconferencing. In this mode, the teacher and the taught are connected over a satellite-aided conference call. The call aides exchange of information and ideas over great distances. The interaction between the teacher and the student is made possible via a satellite phone and/or a video conference.Programmes like EDUSAT have made it possible for students.

Residing in remote areas of the country to have access to the latest learning modules and courses.This programme is aimed at making the students all over the country feel included in the country’s education system despite the remoteness of their geographic location. Technically, EDUSAT involves the teaching source imparting the lessons from an educational studio which is televised or transmitted to the student’s using the satellite connection. Such a setting can be a 2 way mode of interaction using telephone and internet.

• I. ‘Society’ refers to ‘UTKARSH’ which is an abbreviation of ‘Use of Technology for Knowledge Advancement and Reorientation of Studies in Haryana’.
• II. ‘Executive Committee’ means the Executive Committee, FCEL, Haryana constituted under the Constitution.
• III. ‘President’ means president of the society and of the Executive Committee, FCEL, Haryana who shall be the ex-officio President.
• IV. ‘Executive Director’ means executive director of the society. director general school education Haryana shall be ex-officio executive director of the society.
• V. ‘Sr. Vice President’ means senior vice president of the society and of the executive committee, the senior most officer of Haryana, from amongst the Commissioner and Director General School Education, Higher Education Commissioner, Director Elementary Education and State Project Director, SSA.
• VI. ‘Vice-President’ means vice president of the society and of the executive commissioner, if elected or nominated.
• VII. ‘Member Secretary’ means member secretary of the society and of the executive committee.
• VIII. ‘Treasurer’ means treasurer of the society and of the executive committee.
• IX. ‘Centre’ means the local constituent of the Society.
• X. ‘Honorary Members’ means officials of the state/central government and individuals taken in the Society without subscription by virtue of their office or experience.
• XI. ‘Year’ means a period of 12 months beginning as of 1st April.

• (a) Government Science Senior Secondary Schools and Urban Schools
• (b) Government Colleges
• (c) All Government Senior Secondary Schools for Arts
• (d) All Government Primary Schools
• (e) All Government Technical Institutions (Polytechnics and Engineering Institutions)