Jharkhand teacher uses loudspeakers for 'virtual' classes in village amidst lockdown

What happens to those underprivileged students during the lockdown who might not have a smartphone and cannot access online classes but absolutely do not want to stop their education? But Shyam Kishore Singh Gandhi, the headmaster of a school in Jharkhand’s Dumka district, has come up with an innovative solution for the students of his village school during the Covid-19 lockdown. He has put up loudspeakers in Bankathi village where his Upgraded Middle School is located, and 2-hour classes re being held every day since April 16 successfully beating the problems that come with online learning. Student suicides due to lack of learning resources The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown has put a huge pressure on education, the likes of which haven’t been seen in living history, and the main sufferers are the underprivileged students many of whom desperately want to continue studying but simply do not have the means to do so. States like Assam and West Bengal have Read: Covid-19 Lockdown: Indian Internet infra not prepared for shift to online teaching-learning, says QS report Read: Over 1.5 billion children missing school because of Coronavirus, Unesco joins hands with tech firms to help Read: Education disrupted for over 290 million students due to coronavirus outbreak: UNESCO Read: Coronavirus Outbreak: With schools shut, online learning platforms are announcing free access to fill the education gap