e-KUMBH Portal

November 13, 2022
Current Context: The President of India, Droupadi Murmu, launched the e-KUMBH (Knowledge Unleashed in Multiple Bharatiya Languages) portal in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
  • The e-KUMBH portal will contain courses and books related to engineering that will be available in 12 Scheduled Indian languages.
  • The primary objective of this portal is to develop analytical and critical skills among students by providing equal opportunities to rural and urban students in order to build a well-educated and vibrant society.
  • Until now the engineering courses of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) were available only in English but they will be now available in 12 languages viz. Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Odia, Telugu, and Assamese.
  • The AICTE informed us that the translation of the engineering courses in Urdu and Malayalam was also under process.
  • The AICTE is a regulatory body for technical education that was established in 1945 under the Department of Higher Education. It has its headquarters in New Delhi. The current Chairperson of the commission is Anil Sahasrabudhe.

Question:

Q.1 The e-KUMBH portal was recently launched by?
a. Droupadi Murmu
b. Narendra Modi
c. G Kishan Reddy
d. Dharmendra Pradhan

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