DD Roshini, a new educational channel from Doordarshan

Doordarshan has launched DD Roshini in association with Microsoft Aspire School Program. This new channel will telecast live TV and Skype lectures in the classrooms to assist teachers who teach in BBMP schools. DD Roshini is a part of BBMP’s initiative to change and transport the schools, which comes under BBMP into world-class educational institutions.

It aims to provide an interaction between Indian and the international students. There are over 22,000 students studying in about 40 primary and high schools that are run by the BBMP in Bengaluru. The channel aims to provide world-class infrastructure to empower the less privileged. The channel will be available on DD FreeDish, Airtel Digital TV, Dish TV, Big TV, Tata Sky, VideoconD2h, and Sun Direct.