Over 9 lakh govt school students continued learning digitally: Sisodia

NEW DELHI : The five digital learning interventions — that had been started by the Delhi government over the past two months to help children continue learning even during the lockdown — concluded on Sunday, with deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia saying that more than nine lakh students of Delhi government schools had benefitted from the initiative.

The five programmes initiated by the Delhi government included live online classes for students of Class 12, English and personality development for Class 10 and 12 students, online mathematics for Class 9 students, digital entrepreneurship mindset classes for students of classes 9 to 12, text and interactive voice response enabled activity classes for classes KG to 8 through parents.

In addition to these, 15 sessions of happiness classes were also conducted online, which were open to all and were attended by families.

On Sunday, Sisodia conducted a review meeting with parents, teachers, and students in the presence of senior education department officials.

“I am glad to see that we could minimise academic damage due to loss of learning time, thanks to the exemplary efforts of our teachers, parents and children who embraced this new way of learning,” he said.

NEWDELHI: A sanitation employee of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), who was deployed in Badarpur, has died of Covid-19, a SDMC official said on Sunday.

Officials said the deceased employee had been suffering from diabetes and kidney ailments and was also tested Covid-19 positive.

“The sanitation employee was 53-years-old and diabetic, and was admitted to LNJP hospital for dialysis. He was cremated today (Sunday) at Nigambodh Ghat but hospital authorities said he died two or three days ago. The SDMC will extend all possible help for the family of the deceased sanitation employee,” a SDMC spokesperson said.