150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi will be concluding on 2nd October, 2020- Organizing the quiz on Mahatma Gandhi by the NCERT Certain instructions

Sub:AP Samagra iksha SIEMAT/Quality Education Commemoration period

of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi will be concluding on 2nd

October, 2020- Organizing the quiz on Mahatma Gandhi by the NCERT

Certain instructions - Issued.

Ref

1. Lr.D.O.No.1-23/2020-IS.5, dt. 23rd, September, 2020, the Joint

Secretary (Inst.), Ministry of Education, DoSE&L, Gol, New Delhi.

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While enclosing a copy of the reference cited above, all the District

Educational Officers & Ex-Officio Project Coordinators and Addl. Project

Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha in the State are informed that, the Joint

Secretary (Inst.), Ministry of Education, DoSE&L, Gol, New Delhi has informed

vide in his Lr.D.O.No.1-23/2020-IS. 5, dt. 23, September,2020, "the two year

long commemoration period of the 150tn Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

will be concluding on 2hd October, 2020. To celebrate the occasion, the

Department has collaborated with National Council of Educational Research and

Training (NCERT) to organize a quiz on Mahatma Gandhi. The Quiz is designed

carefully to assess the knowledge and understanding of Life, Works and Values

that Mahatma Gandhi stood for. _The Quiz items are meant for children from the

primary classes-III to V, Middle- VI to VIII and Secondary/Senior Secondary IX

to XII. The questions will be available in Hindi and English medium."

The quiz portal can be accessed on Discover Gandhi portal

at:http://gandhiparichay.in/DIKSHS platform (https://diksha.gov.in/) and the

Discover Gandhi mobile App which can be easily downloaded from Google Play

Store on Android mobile phone (http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?

id=com.discovergandh.kholkhel). The facilitate Children with Special Needs

(CwSN) audio recordings are embedded in quiz for questions as well as

instructions on how to take the quiz. The quiz will be open from 2na October,

2020 starting on 10.00 AM and will close on 1st November, 2020 midnight on the

above mentioned platforms.