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The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has launched TribeX, India's first dedicated digital learning platform for preserving, promoting and disseminating tribal arts, languages, culture, traditional knowledge and indigenous skills through technology-enabled education.

What is TribeX?

TribeX is a first-of-its-kind digital learning and knowledge platform designed to document, preserve and promote India's rich tribal heritage. It serves as a comprehensive digital ecosystem that combines education, skill development and cultural preservation by offering structured academic programmes alongside a digital repository of tribal knowledge.

The platform has been developed to safeguard India's diverse tribal traditions while making them accessible to learners, researchers and the wider public through digital technologies.

Key Features

TribeX functions as an integrated digital learning platform, offering free certificate courses and UGC-recognised Post Graduate Diploma programmes in tribal languages, traditional art forms, handicrafts, handloom, indigenous knowledge systems and cultural practices.

It currently provides 20 free certificate courses covering a wide range of tribal crafts, paintings, artefacts, handloom traditions and traditional musical instruments, thereby promoting skill development and cultural awareness.

A major component of TribeX is its Digital Repository, which documents and preserves tribal languages, oral traditions, performing arts, cultural practices and indigenous knowledge systems for future generations.

The platform also incorporates a Learning Management System (LMS) and a Repository Management System, enabling structured learning, digital content management, learner progress tracking and secure access to educational resources.

Another important feature is the Heritage Archive, which contains more than 5,000 multimedia resources, including audio recordings, videos and literature documenting tribal festivals, folklore, socio-cultural practices and oral traditions from across India.