The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has reportedly started sending out worksheets to help students in rural areas who are deprived of stable internet connectivity. Given that most of the learning infrastructure has moved online, internet connectivity has become an essential tool to learn. However, not all areas have a steady internet connection, which is why the civic body had to take this step.
As per this policy, parents of the students were asked to visit schools at a designated time to pick up the worksheets for their kids. The civic body has said that it will continue this procedure at least until December this year.
Education Officer at the BMC, Mahesh Palkar said - “In order to ensure students do not remain out of touch with respect to their studies, we have started distributing periodic worksheets of all subjects through schools. Students can solve these worksheets and parents can then submit them to the school for teachers to check them. Teachers can contact students and guide them further.”
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To further ease some of the burdens, the BMC has launched a program called “Palak Mitra” meaning a friend of the parent. This will essentially allow the civic body to use external resources in the form of volunteers to help with the distribution of educational materials.
Elaborating on Palak Mitra, Palkar said - “The concept is to seek help from parents who are reasonably educated and who can help students in their locality in their studies. Through such volunteers, we are sending out educational content, giving students exercises and monitoring their progress. In addition to this, teachers have been asked to visit localities where students can be taught in small groups of three-five.”
Data presented by the civic body showed that 25 per cent of the students at civic schools were unable to attend online classes in August while the civic body had originally migrated to online learning in June. Keeping this in mind, the BMC had reportedly sent out textbooks to the affected students at around the same time.
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