Aiming to ensure that the students are healthy and motivated during the lockdown period, the HRD Ministry, Ayush Ministry and Fit India initiative of Sports Ministry have come together to keep the young ones across the country engaged with a series of indoor activities.
A senior HRD Ministry official said a online programme has been devised to motivate them to take up fitness and healthy living as a way of life as per the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Fit India' programme.
The CBSE and Fit India Movement have collaborated to provide live fitness sessions by experts for school students during the lockdown. These sessions will be live on youtube, facebook, instagram daily from 9.30am on April 15, for a period of one month.
Students will be able to stream and download the live sessions from the YouTube channel of Fit India Movement. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ informed about this initiative through a tweet on Tuesday.
Further, under the direction of HRD ministry, the National Institute of Open Learning (NIOS) has initiated a unique method to ensure effective schooling to reach the unreached directly at door step. Content is being made available online through several platforms of MHRD for various subjects from class 9th to 12th.
Along with Self Learning Material, 'Swayam' portal provides video lectures and facility of self-assessment. The questions and queries of the learners are also being resolved through discussions forum.
In addition, for those who do not have much access to internet, these video lectures are telecast on MHRD Swayamprabha TV channels with Live sessions to interact with their teachers and subject experts.
Those students who are preparing for JEE and NEET can benefit sitting at home through this initiative.
The learners can watch the lesson-based educational programs on these DTH Channels and NIOS YouTube channel and can ask questions directly to the subject experts from their home through phone call on the number displayed during Live session and through 'Student Portal' of NIOS website directly in live telecast.