Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 20: The Advisor to Lt Governor, K.K. Sharma today said that the students are being provided the necessary interventions and mechanism is in place so that their academic session and education does not suffer.
The Advisor was reviewing the initiatives being undertaken by the Directorate of School Education, Jammu (DSEJ) with regard to making available the academic content to the students through online, digital and other media.
Director School Education Jammu (DSEJ), Anuradha Gupta and other senior officers participated through video conferencing.
While complimenting the Directorate of Education for coming up to the expectations of the general public in the testing times, the Advisor said they have through their initiatives provided the much needed interventions to the students so that their academic session does not suffer. He said that the UT of Jammu and Kashmir has been among first in the country to come up with the solutions in the education sector in view of the global pandemic.
The Director school education informed the meeting that immediately after the closure of schools due to COVID-19 spread, the DSEJ set up online and offline platforms to cater to the specific needs of students especially in view of the fact that many students in Govt schools belong to the most deprived sections of society.
The Director School education informed the Advisor that parents / students are being provided uninterrupted access to home assignment window created on DSEJ official website. To supplement online classes which are not interactive, DSEJ Home assignments have been started which comprise network of WhatsApp groups at school level and to guide and monitor them, WhatsApp groups of JD/ CEOs/ ZEOs have been formed. Interactive classes are being held as per designated time schedule for each class and subject, for those students who don’t have smart phones, teachers are calling students regularly and guiding them in their studies besides giving them assignments to be done by them.
It is pertinent to mention that NCERT has now come up with Alternative Academic Calendar in view of closure of schools. It is encouraging to find that the Calendar is based on similar strategy and methodology already put in practice by DSEJ.
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