Society For Telangana State Network (Softnet)

Updated on April 23, 2022, 8:35 a.m.

The 21st century is an era of technology aided progress and every segment of the society depends upon unique software or some gadget/process driven support for functioning in an organised manner. The sectors like Education, Hospitality, Transport, Industries, Electronics, Telecommunication and Logistics is no different and must satisfy the desires of the people in Telangana.

Due to the rise of the industrial revolution, there is evolution of various technologies and new ones are getting established to accomplish the need for the practical cost and doing the supportable, active, and generating powerful solutions to the new and emerging problems and the complexities in the present scenarios.

The Society for Telangana State Network (SOFTNET) is a small step in that big direction by the Government of Telangana to emphasise on several transformational reforms, making technology accessible to all, including the concept of holistic education.

It has been over a year since the announcement of the National Educational Policy in the year 2020.The policy is a great attempt to energise changes across the length and breadth of the educational patterns in India, from primary, secondary to higher education.

The Government of Telangana is always outlining the need for several transformational reforms, including the concept of Holistic Education, Agriculture, Pharmacy, Rural development and enhancing the civic amenities.

The SOFTNET Scheme is a major structure to offer quality and holistic education using the power of Information technology and Satellite communications.

VISION

To offer a learning environment in which the faculty, students and the people can discover, scrutinise critically, preserve and spread the wisdom, knowledge,  and ethics that helps guarantee the survival of future generations and improve the quality of life for all.

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the Society for Telangana State Network (SOFTNET) are given below as follows:

  • To generate a transformative educational experience for people focused on deep knowledge.
  • Crafting a good atmosphere open to the exchange of ideas, where research, imagination, innovation, and free enterprise can flourish.

NEED FOR SOCIETY FOR TELANGANA STATE NETWORK (SOFTNET)

Holistic education is the new format of education, as it is multi-disciplinary and includes acquaintances to a wider range of topics like Science, Arts, Commerce, Electronics, Bio-technology, Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Sports, Digital Sphere, Telecommunication and others. There is a great importance attached to experimental learning away from the old-fashioned format.

To be honest, the experimental learning plays a major role in developing your Inner and Outer-Self, Research, Observe, Self-Analysis, Self-Enquiry, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Active Collaborations.

The Society for Telangana State Network (SOFTNET) Scheme is a one stop platform to provide effective resolutions.

As per the survey, done by many leading institutes, the employees, who have studied in educational institutions that are having restrictions, find it impossible to adapt to the diverse non-work and work culture.

An employee with the medical background will fail to appreciate the Customer Service Skills, Teamwork, Hard Work and Dynamism. In the same way, the employee with the non-technical degree will find it difficult to appreciate the rapidly changing digital environment very puzzling.

In the digital era, the reputation of the holistic education has boosted by many folds. The digital world has encouraged the techno-centric behaviour and approach as one can see the rise of many start-ups and they claim to be the centre of the Artificial Intelligence and the Block Chain Technologies, rather than companies equipped to handle the problems of customers in Telangana.

FEATURES OF SOFTNET

The Society for Telangana State Network (SOFTNET) has some amazing features given below.

  • A Dedicated platform for establishing a worthy network in our environment to achieve excellence.
  • Assist and train the government employees and encourage them to achieve the success in their line of work.
  • Create awareness among its people on safety, preventing offense and involving people in maintaining law and order in the state.
  • Highlight the high quality and imaginative instruction at the Undergraduate, Graduate, Postgraduate and Professional Levels.
  • Personalise, through its policies and programs, admiration for, and assurance to, the principles of a pluralistic, multiracial, open and democratic society.
  • Maintain a level of distinction and standards in all schemes that will give them state wide and national importance.
  • Deals with various practices and associations to create results that meet the needs of the people in the state.
  • The consensus oriented decision-making guarantees that even if everyone does not achieve what they want, a common minimum consent can be attained.
  • To motivate the people to fight the menace of corruption and stress on clean governance.
  • Making sure that voice of the most helpless people and community are heard in the society.
  • Governmental Organisations, Civil Society and Private Sectors organisations is accountable to the public and institutional stakeholders.
  • This scheme encourages the people to get an impartial legal framework, to protect the interest of people and promote their welfare.
  • This scheme helps the government to achieve a strategic vision to protect the interest of the people and promote the welfare.

ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE SOFTNET

The Society for Telangana State Network (SOFTNET) Scheme is the ultimate conception of the honourable Chief Minister Mr.Kalavakuntala Chandrashekhara Rao.

The chairman of SOFTNET is Mr. Somesh Kumar who was earlier working as a civil servant for 26 years in Telangana. He is the chairman of SOFTNET.

Mr. Jayesh Ranjan is the Vice Chairman of the SOFTNET and done courses like MBA from IIM Kolkata, Master’s degree in Psychology from the Delhi University, and a Masters in Public Management from Lee Kuan Yew School of the public policy, under the wing of National University of Singapore. He is the all India topper in IAS of his batch in1992.He is holding the critical post as the Secretary, Department of IT, in the Government of Telangana.

Mr. Shailesh Reddy is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the SOFTNET, Department of IT, in the Government of Telangana. He is an enterprising person who has worked in leading news channels and newspapers for the last 25 years in Zee News, Eenadu Television, and English Today. He has played a pivotal role in the expansion of SOFTNET in the Government of Telangana. The son of the honourable Chief Minister Shri K.T. Rama Rao is the Minister of Information Technology (IT) in the state of Telangana.

CHANNELSUNDERTHESOFTNET

The Society for Telangana State Network (SOFTNET) is having a Suitable Camera Crew, Light Crew, Sound Crew, Content/Script Writers, Producers, Directors, Models, Actors, Technical Production Crew and The Administrative Staff.

SOFTNET consists of the GSAT 8 Satellite and broadcasts 4 channels.

Mana TV Telangana is broadcasting programmes on handwriting and music classes, spoken English, as part of its initiative to keep the students equipped during the summer classes. Apart from transmitting education related programmes, the channel will also broadcast extensive variety of programmes including Bhajans, Folksongs, Devotional Songs and the Vocal Music Training.

T-SAT programmes can be watched directly on every home TV over the digital network. Please download the T-SAT App and watch T-SAT broadcasts with the Android Set Top Box, Tablet, Amazon Fire stick, Smart Phone or any other OTT (Over the Top) gadget.

The Society for Telangana State Network (SOFTNET) Scheme has certain channels given below as follows:

  • T SAT Vidya
  • T SAT YouTube Channel
  • T SAT Nipuna Channel
  • T-SAT Online Lessons
  • SoFTNET T-SAT NIPUNA TV Live
  • Mana TV Telangana Live
  • T-SAT network
  • Mana TV Vidya

T-SAT (Telangana Satellite) NIPUNA and T-SAT VIDYA deliver Agriculture Extension, Rural Development, Distance learning, E-Governance and the Tele-Medicine requirements of the people of Telangana.

SOFTNET offers excellent training facilities and shares information in the field of Women Empowerment and Child Welfare, Health, Logistics, Urban Expansion, IT, Cooperative Societies, Current Affairs Digital Technologies, Education, Social Medias, Agricultural Growth, Economic Growth, Medicine, Transportations, Distance Learning, Industries, Defence, and other segments in the state of Telangana.

Video lessons are available on YouTube link Youtube.com/tsatnetwork. T-SAT Channel has more than 7500 video series to support the students and job seekers.

The job seekers can write the competitive examinations like the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Banking, Army, Paramilitary, Railway Recruitment Board, Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC),Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board (TSLPRB).

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