Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA)

The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme was formulated to impart IT training to around 50 Lakh people, including authorized ration dealers, Anganwadi and ASHA workers across all states and union territories in the country.

Background

The Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (DISHA) or National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) Scheme was formulated to impart IT training to around 50 Lakh people, including authorized ration dealers, Anganwadi and ASHA workers across all states and union territories in the country.

With the scheme declared open for Village Level Entrepreneurs, CSCs could now register and train candidates from any block and/or district of the country as per the prescribed eligibility criteria. An eligible person could enroll to the nearest NDLM training center using their Aadhaar number, study the e- modules through the LMS, fill the minimum number of learning hours, and appear for a Real Time Examination process in collaboration with CSC approved Certifying Agencies such as NIELIT, NIOS, ICT among others for their certification.

What did we do?

Mettl Platform

Our hassle free platform helped with flexible administration and intuitively facilitated test creation, optimizing build time for multiple-choice, true/false, text, flash, video image questions and more.

Online Proctoring Suite

Our one of its kind online proctoring suite ensured a near corruption free testing environment with behavior alerts, live video monitoring, and session review features.

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Secure Authentication

We verify test takers through a secure, biometric identification process. This also utilized identification through Aadhaar cards.

Management Information System

Mettl allowed for a seamless management of candidate databases. The MIS provided live access to candidates for the clients, ensuring data sanity.

Our Impact

Candidates assessed

  • With the Mettl involvement, the NDLM scheme managed to assess over 1,000,000 candidates within a span of seven months, improving the overall process efficiency.
  • In addition, this involvement helped NDLM revise their previous target, set at 2017, to 2016.
  • Our proctoring and authentication methodologies presented a clean environment for both candidates and test administrators.

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