Chronologically arrange the Educational Television based events/programmes/experiments according to their year of commencement.

1.Commencement of telecast of educational programmes known as Country-Wide Classroom of UGC

2.Commencement of telecasting curriculum based video programmes produced by IGNOU on Doordarshan

3.Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE)

4.Establishment of Indira Gandhi National Open University

A1, 2, 3, 4

B4, 3, 2, 1

C2, 3, 1, 4

D3, 1, 4, 2 ✓ Correct

Correct answer: (D) 3, 1, 4, 2

Explanation

The earliest of these is the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, run in 1975-76, which opens as statement 3.

Next came the UGC's Country-Wide Classroom educational telecasts, begun in 1984, marked as statement 1.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University was then established in 1985, placed as statement 4.

Curriculum-based IGNOU video programmes reached Doordarshan afterwards, listed as statement 2.

SITE carried instructional programmes to about 2,400 villages using the American ATS-6 satellite.

The Country-Wide Classroom was produced with the help of the Consortium for Educational Communication.

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