What is iGOT launched by the Government of India in April 2020?

Correct — C. iGOT expands to Integrated Government Online Training. It was launched in April 2020 as a training platform for frontline workers handling COVID-19, hosted on the DIKSHA platform of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Courses were opened for doctors, nurses, paramedics, technicians, ANMs, state officers, civil defence and police staff and volunteer bodies, free of charge.

The purpose was capacity building at speed during the first weeks of the pandemic, which is option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Online portal for digital payments — Digital payments run through the National Payments Corporation of India, on UPI and BHIM. iGOT carries video courses with practice questions, and moves no money at all.
• (b)
  Online portal for social security schemes — Social security registration for unorganised workers is the business of the e-Shram portal, a later and separate launch. iGOT enrols learners, not beneficiaries.
• (d)
  Online portal for scholarships to single girl child — Scholarships, including schemes for a single girl child, are routed through the National Scholarship Portal. Nothing in iGOT deals with students or with financial assistance.

iGOT began as an emergency training response and then outlived the emergency. It was built on DIKSHA, the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing platform originally created for school education, which is how the government put a national training system into the field within weeks.

It later became iGOT Karmayogi, the learning platform of Mission Karmayogi, the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building approved by the Cabinet in September 2020. Recognising both the wartime origin and the permanent successor answers most questions about it.

Key facts

• iGOT stands for Integrated Government Online Training and was launched in April 2020 for COVID-19 frontline training.
• It was hosted on the DIKSHA platform, the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing run by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
• Courses were opened for doctors, nurses, paramedics, technicians, ANMs, police and civil defence staff and volunteers.
• iGOT later became iGOT Karmayogi under Mission Karmayogi, the civil services capacity building programme approved in September 2020.

Common traps

• The acronym looks like it could belong to any e-governance scheme, so expanding it is the whole task.
• iGOT and iGOT Karmayogi are the same lineage at different stages, and a question may name either.
• e-Shram, the National Scholarship Portal and UPI are all real, which is what makes the wrong options feel answerable.

No directly related past PYQ was found.