The Chhattisgarh school education department on Thursday launched an online education portal ‘Padhai Tunhar Dwar’ and directed district officials to register teachers and students of all government-run schools across the state.
In a letter, state principal secretary, education Dr Alok Shukla directed district collectors to register all government school teachers and students and instructed them to come up with suggestions for improving the scheme.
Chief minister Bhupesh Baghel had launched an online portal on April 7, through which hundreds of thousands of students can study free of cost, keeping in view of the lockdown in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The e-learning platform provides online interactive classes for teachers and students through video-conferencing.
The school education department website cgschool.in is also providing the necessary resources from Class 1 to Class 10 students.
It is being further expanded to Class 11 and Class 12.
The letter to the collector said that the utility of the portal will be fully beneficial only after all the educational material of all the classes will be available and all the students are registered.
Collectors were asked to instruct district education officers and block education officers to send messages through WhatsApp groups for the registration of the students and the teachers.
Teachers can also send the messages to the parents on the portal.
Video, audio and other type of content should be developed for the portal according to the class and the subject and good and innovative teachers should roped in after selection, the letter said.
The details should be then uploaded on the portal and only after senior teachers verify it, the educational material will be made available for the children.
A senior teacher’s name and mobile number should be sent to the director, Samagra Shiksha.
When the names of teachers who are willing to take online classes, is ready, details should along with the subject they will teach should be forwarded to the authorities.
Each teacher taking online classes will be given an honorarium of Rs 500 per class.
Payment related details will be issued by SCERT, Raipur.
Collectors have been directed to depute a nodal officer for coordination and monitoring the work.