TRAINING FOR AUGMENTING PRODUCTIVITY AND SERVICES

Recently, the Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment has launched an online portal TAPAS (Training for Augmenting Productivity and Services).
The idea of TAPAS was conceptualised at a time when exploring the online medium for work and education had become imperative due to the outbreak of Covid 19 pandemic

Important points:

It offers various courses in the field of social defence for the capacity building of stakeholders. It is an initiative of National Institute of Social Defense (NISD).
Social defence is generally understood as the protection of society against crime through a systematically organized and coherent action by both the State and civil society.
It is a standard MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform with course material such as filmed lectures and e-study material.
MOOC is a free Web-based distance learning program that is designed for the participation of large numbers of geographically dispersed students.
It also includes discussion forums to support and encourage interactions among students and course coordinators.
It will provide access to lectures by subject experts, study material and more, but in a manner that it supplements the physical classroom without compromising on the quality of teaching.
It can be taken up by anyone who wishes to enhance his or her knowledge on the topics and there is no fee for joining.

Significance:

In our education system, where the offline mode of teaching is so deeply entrenched, this course will lead the path of change and open up new possibilities.
It will enable the Ministry for Social Justice and Empowerment in reaching out to an even larger number of people working in the area of social defence.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,,MINT

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