NPTEL has been offering self-study courses across engineering, humanities and science streams for more than a decade. These are available at: http://nptel.ac.in.

From March 2014, NPTEL has been offering online certification for its courses, the highlight being the certification examination through which the student gets an opportunity to earn a certificate from the IITs.

These are available at: https://swayam.gov.in/NPTEL

To take this initiative forward and to encourage more students across colleges to participate in this initiative, they have created SWAYAM-NPTEL chapter in colleges which will be under the headship of a faculty member of the college who would be our Single Point of Contact (SPOC). NPTEL will keep the SPOC updated about all the latest NPTEL initiatives and give him/her information which he/she can disseminate among the students. He/she can identify suitable mentors for various courses who can ensure that students are active in a course, are submitting their assignments on time and also clarifying their doubts, if any.

1. Dr. Amrit Krishna Mitra from the department of Chemistry has taken the initiative to establish Government General Degree College, Singur as the Local Chapter [ID: 3772] of SWAYAM-NPTEL in the district of Hooghly and Dr. Mitra has also been appointed as the SPOC of this Local Chapter.
2. For details, visit:
   https://nptel.ac.in/localchapter/statistics/3772