Jharkhand govt eyes cable TV classes

Giridih district has set an example in educating government school students through cable television, a format which may soon be replicated across Jharkhand, state education minister Jagarnath Mahto said here on Tuesday.

Visiting Jamshedpur to review the online education on WhatsApp groups among students of government schools, Mahto said he had received complaints that a large number of students could not access digital content shared by the department of school education and literacy during the novel coronavirus lockdown.

Across the state, ever since the lockdown closed schools, digital learning became a buzzword among private schools. However, though the state prepared teaching content for government schoolchildren, their ground realities were very different.