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 24 Hour Higher Education Channel

        The development in the Science have revolutionized information and communication technology. The most important development     among theses has been compression technology. This has enabled carrying of several channels in one transponder. With the advent of multi channel carrier not only entertainment and news but several other programmes can also be seen. In the education sector VYAS is one such channel. The advantages of having such channel is that education can reach to large number of viewers across millions of house-holds.The knowledge and information  gap which exists due to lack of communication in remote places gets bridged to a great extent through this mode. With the mission to carry knowledge to households and students, teachers and public to bridge the knowledge and information gap and to provide the same quality of higher education to all a separate channel on higher education was launched on 26th January 2004 by Hon'ble Minister for Human Resource Development. This was a momentous day in the history of higher education communication.

 Mission

        The first mission of this channel is to find out knowledge need of the people through research and address the same by developing "knowledge resources" with the help and support of research facilities available in the universities and colleges of the country. The second mission is to bridge this gap making quality knowledge packages delivered by the best teacher available and those too everyone who desires to benefit from it. The third mission of the channel is to make knowledge free and seamlessly available to all those who need it.

Reach     

         Educational video programmes are produced by the 18 UGC-CEC Media Centres, having around 550 trained manpower put together, for telecast on UGC-CEC’s 24x7 Vyas Higher Education Channel which is available on DTH platform of Doordarshan and also on Dish TV for maximum reach to the students and general public.

           In the past 26 years CEC has produced over 17000 [a biggest repository of its kind] educational video programmes which are reaching to a wide range of viewers across the country as well as in other countries where INSAT footprints are received. The National Viewership Survey conducted by CEC in the year 2010 has revealed that the UGC-CEC educational programmes are being viewed by more than 13% of the total student population in the higher education.

Fix Point Chart

        The channel follows the following band approach on various days to promote the learning and also to facilitate the viewers to remember the same for viewing the programmes:

 

Days/Timings

5:30-7:30,11:30-13:30,17:30-19:30,23:30-1:30 hrs.

7:30-9:30,13:30-15:30,19:30-21:30,1:30-3:30hrs

9:30-11:30,15:30-17:30,21:30-23:30,3:30-5:30hrs.

Band would be blended with programme on

Monday

Fine Arts

Maths

Geography

India for the World

Tuesday

History

Economics & Commerce

Zoology & Biology

Heritage India

Wednesday

Home Science

Political Science

Botany & Agriculture

Contemporary Issues

Thursday

Sociology

Physics

Language & Literature

Women Empowerment

Friday

Chemistry

Psychology

Education

Guru Devo Bhava

Saturday

Environmental Science

Communication & Information Science

Anthropology & Medical Science

Hall of Inspiration

Sunday

Music, Art & culture

Technology

Career Watch

Window to the World

 

    Viewers' Response

        Viewers will be encouraged to send comments and suggestions regarding the programmes as well as packaging and presentation. For  further details please contact the Research Scientist, Consortium for Educational Communication, IUAC Campus, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110067, E-mail- cecugc@cec-ugc.org