DD And AIR Broadcast Virtual Classes Through Regional Channels

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Doordarshan and All India Radio are broadcasting virtual classes and other educational content through their regional channels across the country on TV, radio, and YouTube to help students learn during the lockdown, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, GOI said on Thursday.

DD And AIR Broadcast Virtual Classes Through Regional Channels

The virtual learning through DD and AIR includes curriculum-based classes for primary, middle, and high-school level students.

Secondary School Leaving Certificate subjects and model question papers for Class 10 students are also being made available in some states, it said.

Many of these classes help students prepare for their engineering and medical entrance examinations.

Doordarshan Kendras that are already broadcasting virtual classes are Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, and Jammu and Kashmir.

All India Radio stations broadcasting virtual classes are Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Puducherry, Madurai, Trivandrum, Tirunelveli, Panaji, Jalgaon, Ratnagiri, Sangli, Parbhani, Aurangabad, Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai, Gangtok, Guwahati, Bikaner, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Jaipur.  

The stations broadcasting educational content are Bhopal, Chennai, Kozhikode and Thrissur.   

On an average, a DD channel is airing two-and-a-half hours of educational content daily and an All India Radio channel 30 minutes.

Also, the total number of hours of daily content across the DD network is 17 hours and 11 hours across All India Radio network, it said.


News Courtesy: Times Of India

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