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ODISHA department’s initiative of recruiting teachers and four teachers in every
Exams cancelled to start ‘radio classes’ for elementary, high and school will be provided
from June 1 has enabled higher secondary schools. specialised smart class-
BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 11. The over 25,000 class IX- The Tripura Board of rooms training. More-
Odisha government has XII government school Secondary Education has over, government schools
cancelled undergradu- students in Doda district requested the Teachers in remote areas will be
ate and postgrad final to complete their syllabus Recruitment Board to given priority for installing
semester examinations after the Covid-19 hire these teachers after smart classrooms.
of all study programmes pandemic forced mass thorough review,” said the
except medicine, in light closure of education minister. GOA
of the Covid-19 pandemic institutions countrywide. Confusing logic
spike countrywide. How- The local station of WEST BENGAL
ever pending theory and All India Radio — AIR Government largesse PANAJI, JUNE 27. Days after
practical examinations of Bhaderwah — airs 90 Goa chief minister Pramod
medical courses will be minutes of education KOLKATA, JUNE 11. The West Sawant made a statement
conducted according to content daily. Bengal government has that online classes
schedule, said a govern- “When the district announced state provision are “not compulsory”,
ment spokesperson. authorities started online of masks, soap and food teachers of government
Addressing the media, classes for 63,406 students items under the mid-day higher secondary schools
the spokesperson said this from March 27, data col- meal scheme, to public statewide complain that
decision was taken at a lected by the education de- schools. students are opting out
video-conference meeting partment showed that only The state’s education of virtual classrooms.
presided over by the state’s 37,837 of them had access minister Partha Chatterjee In early June, the chief
higher education minister to Internet and smart- says these items will be minister remarked that
A.K. Sahoo and attended phones,” says Anis Ahmed, handed over to guardians online classes were not
by vice chancellors, nodal officer, Doda district of students as schools are compulsory as many
principals of autonomous radio classes. under closure. Free-of- students don’t have access
colleges and senior educa- To reach the remain- charge textbooks, exercise to Internet connectivity
tion ministry officials. der 25,569 students, the books and pencils will also and digital devices.
Universities and autono- majority in BPL (below be provided to students in This and other off-
mous colleges will follow poverty line) households the Amphan-affected areas the-cuff remarks of state
the evaluation methodol- in remote hilly regions, the of the state, the minister government ministers
ogy recommended by UGC Delhi-based Prasar Bharti added. have confused teacher
for semester and final has provided a time slot on and parent communi-
examinations whose re- AIR-Bhaderwah for radio RAJASTHAN ties. “Initially, the chief
sults will be published by classes. Smart classrooms minister had said that due
end-August, he added. to the Covid-19 pandemic,
“If students are un- TRIPURA initiative there would be a delay in
happy with their assess- Teachers recruitment JAIPUR, JUNE 18. Smart reopening schools. Ac-
ment marks, they can classrooms will be set cordingly, teachers were
apply for re-examination drive up in 100 government trained by the department
in November, the results AGARTALA, JUNE 9. The schools across Rajasthan of education for online
of which will be published Tripura government is at an estimated cost of classes,” said Anant Pis-
in December,” he said. set to recruit 297 school Rs.2 crore, said the state’s surlekar, president of the
teachers and 40 assistant education minister Govind Higher Secondary Teach-
KASHMIR professors for induction Singh Dotasara. The ers’ Association of Goa
Radio classes into government degree government has signed an (HISTAG).
“If these online classes
initiative colleges, according to the MoU with the Power Grid are not beneficial, then
state’s education minister
Corporation of India and
BHADERWAH, JUNE 13. With Ratan Lal Nath. Addition- Educational Consultants why did they ask us to
the majority population ally, 175 graduate and 65 India Ltd to facilitate conduct them in the first
unable to access high postgraduate teachers will the smart classrooms place?” he asks.
speed Internet services be deployed by the educa- initiative.
and smartphones, a tion ministry. E-content for classes I- Paromita Sengupta with bureau
Kashmir education “We are in the process XII will be made available inputs

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