South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has launched 'Reach and Teach' programme for its students studying in 581 schools and 10 aided schools by introducing e-learning project.
Under the programme study material which includes work sheets, audio, videos and activities will be delivered to the parents through WhatsApp voice call, SMS, phone calls or other form of communication available at their homes, a senior SDMC official said.
In case of parents, who do not have smart-phone, they will be contacted by teachers through voice call, SMS and any other form of communication, he said, adding that with this initiative, more than two lakh students of 591 school, including 10 aided schools will be benefited.
The official further said that education department of SDMC has formulated a number of groups at various level to prepare study material for e-learning and delivering the same to the principal and teachers and finally at the home of students or their parents.
“This program will be monitored by the teachers and they will assess its implementation status after getting the feedback from the students or their parents to make it more effective,’ he said.
The civic body has also involved a number of NGOs such as Peepul and SARD in this program to provide training to teachers. Apart from this, a dedicated team will continue to educate children digitally until schools open and the situation get normalised.
Meanwhile SDMC Mayor Sunita Kangra on Friday chaired a high level meeting with deputy commissioners and senior officials of the health and Department of Environment Maintenance Services (DEMS) to review the arrangements and action taken for combating the spread of Coronavirus.
Kangra took stock of the action plan regarding measures and steps taken by the departments to contain this dangerous virus.
In the meeting Kangra instructed the deputy commissioner (west zone) to make arrangements for providing accommodation facility for the staff coming from outside Delhi in community centres and Tilak nagar Staff quarters.
Te decision was taken considering that many sanitation workers and ‘Dengue Breeding Checkers’ (DBCs) workers are facing the issue of crossing Delhi border every day.
Mayor also directed the officials to intensify sanitisation and disinfection drives in the identified hotspots and deploy additional sanitation workers and sprinkling tankers to disinfect the areas.