Struggling to teach govt school students online, Haryana banks on TV lessons, three-tier monitoring system

IN AN attempt to impart lessons to the students of government schools during the pandemic, the Haryana government has introduced a three-tier monitoring system to check whether the students actually watch lectures telecast through the education channels of Doordarshan.

The government decided to impart education through Doordarshan after it came to know that the online classes were not possible for the students of government schools. “Through an extensive exercise of data collection, we came to know that only 3 per cent households whose kids go to the government schools have laptops/computers with internet connection, while 20 per cent households have mobile phones.