The broadcast of educational material on All India Radio and Doordarshan for the children of Government schools of Jharkhand will start on Monday. Under the programme 'Hamara Radio Hamara Vidyalaya', all five stations of AIR will broadcast morning and evening educational material from Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, Daltonganj and Hazaribag besides Bhagalpur. It will be broadcast for ten minutes between 9 and 10 in the morning and for ten minutes between 5.30 and 6.30 in the evening.
Similarly, under the programme 'Hamara Doordarshan and Hamara Vidyalaya', broadcasting of educational material on Doordarshan from 10 am to 2 pm will be class wise. Routine has also been issued for telecast of educational material on Doordarshan till July 2. Students from rural areas will be largely benefitted under the scheme.
Instructions have been given to all the District Education Officers and District Education Superintendents to ensure maximum participation of children in the audiovisual classroom teaching. As due to the Corona pandemic and subsequent lockdown necessitated to break the chain of infection, the state government has launched the programme.
An education department official requesting anonymity said, “As schools are closed due to Corona, online education is being given to government schools through Digi Saath apart from WhatsApp group, but only 12-13 lakh children have been able to join it. A large number of children from rural areas are deprived of this online education.”
“Though radio and visual education we want to cover this let over children, so that their studies are not affected,” added the official.
In May this year, students at Government Schools in State started receiving the digital content prepared by Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC). The JEPC has prepared the digital content which is study material consisting of written text and video clips. The digital content has been prepared class and subject wise consisting of best study material at portal at national level and teachers from schools in State.
The digital content was to cover around 18 lakh students out of total 35 lakh students studying at government schools. The digital content is for students from class 1 to 12.