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What is the full form of SWAYAM, India's online learning platform?

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Answer: Option C — Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds

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SWAYAM stands for "Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds". The word "swayam" also means "self" in Hindi and Sanskrit, reflecting self-learning.

About SWAYAM:

  • It was launched on 9 July 2017 by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.
  • It is a programme of the Ministry of Education (then the Ministry of Human Resource Development).
  • It is India's national platform for "Massive Open Online Courses" (MOOCs).
  • Its aim is to achieve the three key principles of education policy: access, equity and quality, by taking the best teaching and learning resources to everyone, including the disadvantaged.

Its features:

  • It offers free online courses from Class 9 to postgraduate level, in many subjects.
  • Courses are taught by teachers from top institutions, including the IITs, IIMs and central universities.
  • Each course has four parts: video lectures, reading material, self-assessment tests and an online discussion forum.
  • Learners can take a paid, proctored examination to get a certificate.
  • Under UGC regulations (2016, updated 2021), students can get up to 40 per cent of the credits of their degree programme through SWAYAM courses.

Its national coordinators include NPTEL (IITs) for engineering, UGC and CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for non-technical subjects, IGNOU for diplomas, NCERT and NIOS for school education, AICTE for international courses and IIM Bangalore for management.

Related initiatives:

  • "SWAYAM Prabha": a group of DTH television channels broadcasting educational programmes 24x7 (launched in 2017).
  • "DIKSHA" (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing, 2017): a platform for school education.
  • "PM eVidya" (2020): unifies digital, online and on-air education.
  • "National Digital Library of India" (NDLI), developed by IIT Kharagpur.
  • "Academic Bank of Credits" (ABC): stores the credits earned by students, under NEP 2020.
  • "SWAYAM Plus" (2024): a platform for industry-relevant and skill courses.

Related abbreviations:

  • MOOC: Massive Open Online Course.
  • NPTEL: National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning.
  • NIOS: National Institute of Open Schooling.
  • IGNOU: Indira Gandhi National Open University (1985).

Why not the other options?

  • ✗"System for Web-based Academic Youth Advancement and Mentoring" is not the correct expansion.
  • ✗"Skill and Web Academy for Young Achieving Minds" is not the correct expansion.
  • ✗"Smart Web Academy for Youth and Adult Mentoring" is not the correct expansion.

Quick tip

Remember: SWAYAM = Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (launched 9 July 2017; India's MOOC platform; up to 40 per cent credits allowed); SWAYAM Prabha = DTH educational channels; DIKSHA = school education.

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This question tests your understanding of Government Schemes, a key topic in the General Knowledge section. The detailed solution above uses a step-by-step approach to show the reasoning, and where available, a shortcut that helps you solve similar questions in under 90 seconds during the actual exam.

This topic covers the major welfare and development schemes of the Government of India, such as those for financial inclusion, health, housing, agriculture, skill development and women and child welfare, along with their launch year, objectives and ministries. Questions usually ask what a scheme aims to do, when it was launched, or which ministry runs it. For example, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (2014) aims at financial inclusion through bank accounts. Schemes are often renamed, merged or extended, so pair these static facts with the latest updates before banking and government exams. Practise the government schemes questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.

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