Centre launches ‘iGOT' training module for frontline COVID-19 warriors

As the coronavirus cases are mounting up in the country, a large workforce is needed to replace India's first line of workers engaged in tackling the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore the Government of India has launched the training module for management of COVID-19 named ‘Integrated Govt. Online training’ (iGOT) portal on Ministry of HRD’s DIKSHA platform for the capacity building of frontline workers to tackle the pandemic.

The course has been launched to for Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, Hygiene Workers, Technicians, Auxiliary Nursing Midwives (ANMs), State Government Officers, Civil Defence Officers, Various Police Organisations, National Cadet Corps(NCC), Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), National Service Scheme, Indian Red Cross Society, Bharat Scouts and Guides and other volunteers to tackle the pandemic at this stage.

"MHRD’s ‘Digital Infrastructure Knowledge Sharing’ (DIKSHA) platform - an initiative for education & training has been leveraged by Government of India to launch iGOT portal to train all frontline healthcare and COVID Warriors of India to meet Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s vision to care for those ‘who care for the nation," a press release issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development stated.

The 'DIKSHA' platform was launched by the Vice President of India on Teacher’s Day in 2017 and is being utilised to by more than one crore teachers and students across the country in more than thirty states and Union Territories for curriculum-based education and training.    

The portal website link is https://igot.gov.in/igot/. 

The platform will provide the training module on flexitime and on-site basis so that the COVID response can be delivered at scale for the workforce needed to tackle the pandemic.

In India, the total number of positive cases has risen to 5865.