Education ministry write to States, UT’s with learning recovery plan
What is the news:
- The Ministry of Education (MoE) has written to states and union territories with a plan for learning recovery to ensure a continuum of learning and mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
- This includes financial support to students, funds for primary school teachers to purchase tablets and Rs 20 lakh per state and union territory to conduct oral reading fluency (ORF) study.
About the plan:
- A comprehensive learning recovery plan (LRP) has been prepared which delineates the action to be undertaken by each stakeholder, indicative annual calendar of activities, existing interventions which can be utilised and additional support with funding as a one-time measure.
- The states have been asked to include in their annual work plans and budgets interventions such as financial support of Rs 500 per head for all students of upper primary and secondary levels, Rs 10,000 per head for 25 lakh teachers at the primary level for tablets, funds for ORF study, financial support of Rs 6.40 lakh non-recurring and Rs 2.40 lakh recurring cost including for tablets for ICT facility in each block resource centre (BRC) and Rs 1,000 per cluster resource centre (CRC) as mobility support as part of the learning recovery plan.
- Identifying out-of-school children and drop-outs from each grade and locating them, ensuring implementation of bridge courses and school readiness module
for secondary classes, clustering of schools with private schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas or Navodaya Vidyalayas for learning from each other, creating a district-wise strategy for post-National Achievement Survey (NAS) interventions based on results, are among the activities listed in the academic calendar by the ministry with defined timelines.
- The activity calendar also includes preparation and roll-out of customised training programmes for teachers, ensuring delivery of textbooks and uniforms and tracking each child by preparing child registry at school level which is available till district level.
Impact of pandemic on education in india:
- The impact of pandemic COVID-19 is observed in every sector around the world. The education sectors of India as well as world are badly affected by this.
- It has enforced the world wide lock down creating very bad effect on the students’ life.
- Around 32 crore learners stopped to move schools/colleges and all educational activities halted in India.
- The outbreak of COVID-19 has taught us that change is inevitable.
- It has worked as a catalyst for the educational institutions to grow and opt for platforms with technologies, which have not been used before.
- The education sector has been fighting to survive the crises with a different approach and digitising the challenges to wash away the threat of the pandemic.
- Though schools are closed, students are attending their classes through various education initiatives like online classrooms, radio programs. Though it is a good thing happening on the other side, there are lots of students who didn’t own the resources to attend the online classes suffer a lot. Many students are struggling to obtain the gadgets required for online classes.
- Teachers who are all experts in Blackboard, Chalk, books, and classroom teaching are really new to this digital teaching, but they are adopting the new methods and handling it like a pro to aid the students in the current position.
- But on the negative side, many teachers are looking for an alternative job to support their families.
- Educated parents are supporting their children throughout the pandemic, but we require to understand that there are some illiterate parents and their feeling of helplessness to help their children in their education.
- There are students in India who came to school just because they can get food. The great midday meal scheme has helped many children who couldn’t bring their food from the home to get their nutrition.
- Because of the closure of the schools, many students were suffering from not having enough food for their survival.
- There is always a delay or cancellation of exams, which leads to confusion for many students and there is no room for curriculum.
- Most of the school-going children are involved in child labour to support their families.
- There is a lot of chance that the education of female children and transgender children will affect, as their parents may see, the financial and opportunity costs of doing so.
- This pandemic has not only affected the students but also the Low-budget institutions and schools, resulting in close-down the same.
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