Punjab Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla has given the consent to conduct online classes through DD Punjabi to curtail the loss of education due to closure of schools.
A spokesperson of the school education department said that under the supervision of Secretary, School Education Punjab, Krishan Kumar, the online classes will start on May 5 through DD Punjabi. Kumar said that as per the instructions issued regarding Covid-19, students cannot go to schools. Therefore, the arrangements have been made to impart online education to the students. He said that TV classes for students from class 1 to 5 will be held from 9am to 10.40am and from Classes 6 to 12 will be from 10.40am to 4pm.
The daily schedule of these DD Punjabi classes will be sent to the students one day in advance through the school principal and the concerned teachers.
The spokesperson said that students will be able to attend these classes on DD Punjabi Free Dish Channel No 22, Airtel Dish Channel No 572, Videocon D2H Channel No 791, Tata Sky Channel No 1949, Fastway’s Channel 39, Dish TV Channel No 1169, Sun Direct’s Channel No 670 and Reliance Big TV channel number 950.
The Secretary School Education also informed that when the Covid pandemic hit last year, the department did not have much to prepare, but still many teachers set up online classes. Now, the department has more experience and the teachers have learned a lot from last year’s hard work, which will be beneficial for the students.
Director State Council for Education Research and Training, Jagtar Singh informed that last year 4,189 lectures from pre-primary to class 12 were broadcasted on DD Punjabi. It also included stream wise lectures for English, Hindi, Mathematics, Punjabi Science, Social Studies and Welcome Life. Apart from this the education department has also developed Punjab Educare app, through which the teachers have uploaded their lectures. He said that Students of government schools as well as associated and affiliated schools of Punjab School Education Board will also be able to avail online classes through DD Punjabi.
