Free online coaching for government school students begins in Rajasthan
Free online coaching for the government school students, preparing for engineering and medical entrance examinations, through ‘smart virtual classrooms’ has started in Rajasthan.
Around 27,370 students of 770 government schools in Rajasthan are expected to benefit from this joint initiative of the state government and a private coaching institute, Allen Career.
A ‘smart virtual classroom’ facilitates real classroom-like environment to a student with two-way online communication with the teacher.
Under the project, a ‘smart white screen board’ has been put up in each virtual classroom at government schools. Whatever the coaching faculty writes through a digital pen on the board at the nodal smart virtual classroom established at the Government District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) centres, the faculty and his writing appears on the board of virtual classroom at schools in real time, thus providing the student feel of a real-world classroom.
The nodal virtual classrooms have been set up by the Education and Research Network (ERNET), an autonomous scientific society of the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, at 11 DIET centres across Rajasthan.
Allen Career is providing the faculty for free online coaching at the DIET centre in Kota. The government schools and 10 other nodal virtual classrooms are linked online to telecast lectures, said Abhishek Chaubey, an engineer of the Ernet. The free coaching to the government school students has become a reality following the MoU signed between Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) of Rajasthan government and Allen Career last month.
Anandhi, project director of RMSA, said, “Government felt that kids from rural areas should pursue higher education in disciplines such as engineering and medicine. They can avail free coaching from Kota to get success in entrance exams.”
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