Over one lakh students across the smallest states in north-eastern India participated in open air class rooms from Thursday, officials said. There are total 27,000 teachers serving at 4,400 government schools attended these open air schools. To overcome these issues, the Education Department started the ‘ neighbourhood classes’ with 1:5 teacher-student ratio for all students especially those who can’t afford or access online studies. He added that they would seek opinions of the parents and teachers soon about the neighbourhood classes. Earlier, the state Education Department launched online classes, video lecture sessions in local TV channels, SMS based classes, Students’ Helpline Call Centre for the students after Covid-19 lockdown was imposed since March.

Source: Hindustan Times August 21, 2020 08:49 UTC