Govt launches online certificate course on “Relevance of Gandhi in the Contemporary World”

The Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh on January 30, 2020 launched the DoPT’s online certificate course on “Relevance of Gandhi in the Contemporary World”.

The online course/programme on Mahatma Gandhi is an initiative of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) under the iGOT programme to pay tribute to Father of the Nation coinciding with the Martyr’s Day today.

About The Course

• The online module/course on “Relevance of Gandhi in the Contemporary World” under the iGOT platform will be a certificate programme.
• The Department has collaborated with the Centre for Gandhi and Peace Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (GS & DS), to develop this Certificate Programme.
• The online Certificate course will soon be introduced in the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie for Civil Services probationers undergoing training.
• The IGNOU in consultation with GS&DS has prepared a syllabus of this online certificate course on “Relevance of Gandhi in the Contemporary World” which is divided into 3 Modules comprising 12 Units (4 Units under each Module) as under:-

Modules	Units
Module -1Gandhi:  Life and His Philosophy	Introducing GandhiGandhi’s View on TruthGandhi’s View on Non-ViolenceEthics and Morality
Module -2Gandhi and His Legacy – 01	SwarajSwadeshiSatyagrahTrusteeship
Module -3Gandhi and his Legacy – 02	Non-Violence MovementPacifist MovementWomen’s MovementEnvironmental Movement

Duration

This online course is of 6 hours duration. Initially, registrations/enrollments of first 5,000 eligible users/officials only will be accepted for any single batch on first come first serve basis.

In order to ensure registration of government officials only, the registrations done through a “.nic.in” and/or “.gov.in” email domain only will be accepted. There will not be any fee for this online certificate programme for eligible Government officials.

Eligibility criteria

The eligibility criteria for registration/undergoing this online certificate course is same as per the approved criteria under the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) policy under which iGOTprogramme is functional. Accordingly the eligibility criteria will be as under:

• All Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officers, Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Forest Service (IFoS), Group ‘A’ Central Civil Service Officers and all Group ‘A’ officers belonging to Central Secretariat Service (CSS), Central Secretariat Stenographer Service (CSSS) and State Administrative/Civil Service
• All Group ‘B’ and ‘C’ officials belonging to State Civil Services
• All Group ‘B’ and ‘C’ officials belonging to Central Secretariat Service (CSS), Central Secretariat Stenographer Service (CSSS).

However, the eligibility in terms of the length of service and upper age limit, which is 2 years and 56 years respectively for the iGOT programme under MOOCs Policy, will be relaxed for this course to broaden the coverage. The course will be made available to all Central and State Government officials once the online-infrastructural arrangements with IGNOU are sorted out.