One TV channel per class announced to complement digital education

The industry and academia have welcomed the one TV channel per class in school education announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday as part of her fifth tranche of the economic stimulus though most of the other steps announced in education find their roots in previous measures taken.

The finance minister announced Pradhan Mantri eVIDYA, a programme for multi-mode access to digital/online education to be launched immediately and comprising digital content and QR coded textbooks for all grades under the DIKSHA programme for school education and earmarking one TV channel for each class from 1 to 12. Apart from this, extensive use of radio, community radio and podcasts along with special e-content for visually and hearing impaired students would be made.