West Bengal Rolls Back Plan For Virtual Classroom

Government has shelved the plan for virtual classrooms: WB Education Minister (File Photo)

New Delhi:

West Bengal government has decided to roll back the plan for offering virtual classrooms for class 9 to 12 students. The announcement comes only a day after the Ministry had announced its plan for air virtual classrooms on DD Bangla. West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said that the plan was shelved due to logistical reasons.

Mr. Chatterjee addressed a group of reporters on Saturday through videoconferencing and said that while the state had plans to run the virtual classrooms from 4 pm to 5 pm daily, the time slot was not agreed upon by some teachers and guardians.

"Even as the Education department had booked the 4-5 pm time slot on DD Bangla for a week from April 7, a section of guardians and teachers have informed the timing is not okay with them and they are suggesting separate time slots, which cannot be accommodated. In such a situation, we have decided not to go ahead with the plan to hold virtual classes from April 7 as had been announced," the minister told reports through videoconferencing.

The West Bengal Education Minister, yesterday, had made the announcement that from April 7 virtual classes would be aired on DD Bangla from 4 pm to 5 pm. He had said that some well-known teachers had been engaged to deliver lectures in a classroom setup on DD Bangla. The decision was taken in wake of the suspension of classes in schools due to coronavirus outbreak across country.

However, the decision that students have to submit their home activity report during the period of suspension of classes till April 14 will stay in force.

Teachers can download the model questions for the activity report from state school education department portal and send it to students via WhatsApp, or email, after modification by the teacher if they deem fit. The questions will be framed as per the curriculum of the first summative exam in every school.

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