Sonu Sood provides smartphones to kids in remote Haryana village school for online classes
4 years, 7 months ago

Sonu Sood provides smartphones to kids in remote Haryana village school for online classes

India Today  

After seeing a report on how young students of a remote village in Haryana’s Morni are unable to access online classes because of the lack of smartphones and have to travel to miles to get access to one so they can study, actor Sonu Sood has come forward to try and help the kids. “A wonderful beginning to my day watching all the students get their smartphones to attend their online classes. They will have their smartphones by tomorrow @Karan_Gilhotra @HinaRohtaki https://t.co/u2IiegeWtD — sonu sood August 24, 2020 Earlier, he also helped a family which had to sell their only source of income their cow so that they could buy a smartphone for the education of their children. Read: Sonu Sood says JEE-NEET issue an exam for govt, asks for 60-day postponement Read: We should not risk the lives of students: Sonu Sood on conduction of JEE, NEET 2020 Read:

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Mixed reactions to Delhi HC ruling on smartphone use in schools
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Mixed reactions to Delhi HC ruling on smartphone use in schools

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday ruled that the presence of smartphones in schools does not negatively affect teaching, discipline, or the overall educational environment. Satvir Singh, principal of Vidya Bal Bhawan, said, “Smartphones can be used in two different ways—one as a teaching aid, which would be very beneficial for students, and another under the able guidance …

Students in slum areas face accessibility challenges as Delhi schools go online
4 months, 1 week ago

Students in slum areas face accessibility challenges as Delhi schools go online

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, With Delhi schools switching over to online teaching due to high pollution levels, students living in the city's slum areas are facing significant accessibility challenges. Students in slum areas face accessibility challenges as Delhi schools go online Several parents and students raised concerns saying many children are unable to attend classes regularly due to the dearth of smartphones, …

Keeping tabs: Haryana upgrades e-learning devices to prevent misuse by govt school students
1 year, 2 months ago

Keeping tabs: Haryana upgrades e-learning devices to prevent misuse by govt school students

Hindustan Times  

The Haryana education department has upgraded 65% e-tablets allotted to Class 10 and 12 students of government-run schools with the latest operating system following disturbing reports about students breaching the security codes of the tablets and accessing objectionable websites, it is learnt. “Later, much to our surprise, it was found that the MDM breach is being done via device maintenance …

Misuse malady: Haryana govt to keep tabs on tabs
1 year, 6 months ago

Misuse malady: Haryana govt to keep tabs on tabs

Hindustan Times  

Alarmed over reports of Class 10 and 12 students misusing the e-tablets allotted to them, the Haryana government has decided to enlist the services of final-year tech students to examine the devices. The Haryana government, in 2022, had implemented its ambitious e-Adhigam scheme and distributed e-tablets to over five lakh students of Classes 10 and 12 in government schools. The …

Rajasthan govt shuts down mobile internet to prevent cheating in Patwari recruitment exams
3 years, 5 months ago

Rajasthan govt shuts down mobile internet to prevent cheating in Patwari recruitment exams

Op India  

Major services including medical emergencies and travel took a hit on Sunday in Rajasthan as the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government suspended internet services in several districts to curb ‘cheating’ in competitive exams. Districts like Bikaner and Dausa, including capital city Jaipur, faced a 12-hour mobile internet shutdown from 6 AM on Sunday as more than 10 lakh aspirants sat for …

UP Government to distribute smartphones, tablets to students
3 years, 5 months ago

UP Government to distribute smartphones, tablets to students

India Today  

On Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh cabinet approved the scheme of distributing free tablets and smartphones among the students who are pursuing higher studies. Many students faced technological issues during the lockdown, and this has straightaway affected their studies. The distribution of smartphones and tablets will help students to complete their courses successfully, as reported by PTI. Read: Karnataka Chief Minister …

Delhi Teacher Receives Award for Providing 321 Smart Phones to Poor Children for Online Classes
3 years, 6 months ago

Delhi Teacher Receives Award for Providing 321 Smart Phones to Poor Children for Online Classes

News 18  

Bharti Kalra, the vice principal of a government-aided school, that is, Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Rohini Sector-8, has been honoured with Delhi State Teachers’ Award this year for her exceptional contribution in helping poor students with their online classes during the pandemic. She collected 321 smartphones through her family members and friends and gave them to the poor students so that …

India Today Impact: Mobile service providers visit Wayanad's Panavally to assess issues in online classes
3 years, 8 months ago

India Today Impact: Mobile service providers visit Wayanad's Panavally to assess issues in online classes

India Today  

A week after India Today reported the plight of students in Wayanad regarding online education, mobile service providers have visited the region. How Sonu Sood helped bring the issue to light Sonu Sood along with his friend Karan Gilhotra has been actively engaging in activities to provide solutions for the digital divide in online classes. "Recce for the mobile tower …

Syllabus reduced by 30% for Classes 9, 10 due to digital divide: Odisha govt
3 years, 9 months ago

Syllabus reduced by 30% for Classes 9, 10 due to digital divide: Odisha govt

India Today  

With online education becoming the new normal since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, the digital divide, whether it is the lack of internet connectivity or smartphones in the interior areas is a cause of concern for many. The syllabus for students of Classes 9 and 10 will be reduced by 30% this year, Odisha School and Mass Education Minister …

Haryana govt to provide tablets to students of class 8-12 to promote online education
4 years, 4 months ago

Haryana govt to provide tablets to students of class 8-12 to promote online education

India TV News  

Haryana government on Saturday informed that it is finalising a scheme to provide tablets to students of Class 8 to Class 12 studying in government schools to promote online education in view of the COVID-19 crisis. The announcement comes after Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij said that the reopening of schools has been pushed for 10 more days. Earlier, Over …

Sonu Sood launches scholarship to help IAS aspirants
4 years, 5 months ago

Sonu Sood launches scholarship to help IAS aspirants

India Today  

Sonu Sood scholarship: The Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has added another feather to his cap of philanthropy as he announces a scholarship programme for IAS aspirants on the13th death anniversary of his mother, Saroj Sood, on Tuesday, October 13, 2020. Sonu Sood announces scholarship on social media Sharing the news, he tweeted on Tuesday afternoon, “October 13; 13 years since …

Sonu Sood Installs Mobile Tower in Haryana Village After Students Struggle for Online Access
4 years, 5 months ago

Sonu Sood Installs Mobile Tower in Haryana Village After Students Struggle for Online Access

News 18  

After distributing smartphones to the students of a government school in Chandigarh, Sonu Sood yet again helped students who were struggling to access online classes at Morni. The situation came to light after a video on social media showed a child from Dapana village, Morni sitting on a tree branch to catch mobile signals to help other children to complete …

Sonu Sood Sends Smartphones to Students in the Interiors of Maharashtra
4 years, 6 months ago

Sonu Sood Sends Smartphones to Students in the Interiors of Maharashtra

News 18  

Sonu Sood has extended help to school students in the interiors of Maharashtra by sending smartphones so that they can attend online classes. A Twitter user had tweeted about the same to which Sonu replied, “A wonderful beginning to my day watching all the students get their smartphones to attend their online classes. @Karan_Gilhotra पढ़ेगा इंडिया तभी तो बढ़ेगा इंडिया। …

Sonu Sood says JEE-NEET issue an exam for govt, asks for 60-day postponement
4 years, 7 months ago

Sonu Sood says JEE-NEET issue an exam for govt, asks for 60-day postponement

India Today  

While the central government and National Testing Agency which is the conducting body for JEE and NEET, is set to hold the entrance exams even amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, voices are accumulating against the decision. In the given Covid-19 situation, we should care utmost and not risk the lives of the students,” Sonu Sood wrote in his tweet on Tuesday. …

Punjab Govt to Distribute 1.78 Lakh Smartphones to Class 12 Students by November
4 years, 7 months ago

Punjab Govt to Distribute 1.78 Lakh Smartphones to Class 12 Students by November

News 18  

The Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday paved the way for distribution of 1.78 lakh smartphones to class 12 students of state government schools by November. The cabinet noted that four months of the academic year 2020-21 had already elapsed without regular on-campus classes, while private schools were undertaking online classes, the students of government schools faced a competitive disadvantage, especially those …

Assam teachers’ body seeks change in question paper pattern
4 years, 8 months ago

Assam teachers’ body seeks change in question paper pattern

The Hindu  

A teachers’ association in Assam has advised the State government to change the pattern of Class 11 and 12 board exams as the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the 2020-21 academic year. The All Assam Higher Secondary Teachers and Employees’ Association has also suggested providing free android mobile phones and suitable data packs to poor students who have been missing out …

[Breaking] Karnataka HC Stays Govt Ban On Online Classes; Says It Violates Right To Education Under Article 21A
4 years, 8 months ago

[Breaking] Karnataka HC Stays Govt Ban On Online Classes; Says It Violates Right To Education Under Article 21A

Live Law  

The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday expressed the prima facie view that State Government orders banning online classes encroached upon the Fundamental Right to Life and Education conferred by Article 21 and 21A of the Constitution of India. "Prima facie we are of the view that both orders of June 15 and June 27, encroached upon the Fundamental Right …

HRD Ministry working on SOPs for online classes; to address issues of increased screen time, digital divide
4 years, 9 months ago

HRD Ministry working on SOPs for online classes; to address issues of increased screen time, digital divide

The Hindu  

The HRD Ministry is working on Standard Operating Procedures for online classes which will ensure that students don’t have to spend hours before computers or on phones to attend virtual classes and can learn at their own pace, according to officials. The guidelines are being developed in view of complaints from parents about schools conducting online classes like regular school, …

MHRD working on SOPs for online classes, lesser screen time for students
4 years, 9 months ago

MHRD working on SOPs for online classes, lesser screen time for students

Hindustan Times  

The HRD Ministry is working on Standard Operating Procedures for online classes which will ensure that students don’t have to spend hours before computers or on phones to attend virtual classes and can learn at their own pace, according to officials. The guidelines are being developed in view of complaints from parents about schools conducting online classes like regular school, …

Rajasthan school students to study via TV from June 1
4 years, 10 months ago

Rajasthan school students to study via TV from June 1

India TV News  

The government school students in Rajasthan will get to learn course study via television from June 1 as the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has allotted it a slot on Doordarshan to ensure regular education during the lockdown. Rajasthan Education Minister Govind Singh Dotasara said, here on Wednesday, the students without access to smart phones and high-speed internet were being deprived …

AP goverment uses online platfroms educate students during Covid-19 lockdown
4 years, 10 months ago

AP goverment uses online platfroms educate students during Covid-19 lockdown

India Today  

Andhra Pradesh government has taken to online platforms to impart education in the times of Covid-19 and academics have braced up to the new medium. The State has been conducting virtual classes using the Skype, Cisco, Team link, Google Meet and Microsoft Team to conduct online classes and as pet state education department currently 24,000 students and 933 teachers are …

Online classes are telecasted on 32 Swayam Prabha channels for students with no internet, smartphones: HRD minister
4 years, 10 months ago

Online classes are telecasted on 32 Swayam Prabha channels for students with no internet, smartphones: HRD minister

India Today  

While speaking at AajTak e-Agenda, HRD Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said that students who do not have access to the internet, mobile phone or laptops can follow up with their studies through television. Although there are many hardships but we have initiated the online class system.” “We have introduced various online platforms like DIKSHA, E-Pathshala, Swayam Prabha,” said HRD minister. …

Students from rural Kerala with no access to gadgets miss virtual classes
4 years, 10 months ago

Students from rural Kerala with no access to gadgets miss virtual classes

Deccan Chronicle  

KOCHI: As uncertainty continues over the reopening of educational institutions, which have been shut since the last week of March due to Covid lockdown, many schools and colleges in Kerala have switched to digital classes. Even when many underprivileged families have sent their children to good private management schools to provide best education, they are unable to pay for a …

Coronavirus: Online classes for Haryana govt school students till situation gets better
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus: Online classes for Haryana govt school students till situation gets better

India Today  

To ensure academic work does not get disrupted due to the Covid-19 lockdown, the Haryana government has decided that students from classes I to XII studying in government schools will be taught through various e-learning platforms till the situation comes back to normal. Till the time schools reopen, students will be taught through various e-learning platforms, Education Minister Kanwar Pal …

UP Govt clarifies no blanket ban on mobile phones in colleges
5 years, 5 months ago

UP Govt clarifies no blanket ban on mobile phones in colleges

India TV News  

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has refuted claims of banning the use of mobile phones in colleges and universities in the state. IANS had earlier reported that a circular was issued by the Directorate of Higher Education in Uttar Pradesh mentioning a blanket ban on the use of mobile phones inside universities and colleges. Giving out a clarification, …

Despite ban, teachers goading students to use cellphones: Official
7 years, 1 month ago

Despite ban, teachers goading students to use cellphones: Official

The Quint  

Panaji, Jan 29 Despite a ban on the use of mobile phones in schools, teachers are pushing students to download material on smartphones due to lucrative deals offered by telecom service providers, Goa Director of Education G.P. Bhat said on Monday, while also warning of surprise raids in schools to enforce the ban.In a circular issued on Monday, Bhat also …

Cell phones cannot be used in class anymore by Haryana teachers
7 years, 7 months ago

Cell phones cannot be used in class anymore by Haryana teachers

India Today  

Haryana school teachers will not more be allowed to use cell phones in classrooms, as per the guidelines released by the state government on Thursday. As per an Indian Express report, if there is an urgency, the school head and the second senior in-charge, or clerk, should keep a contact number each, the guidelines say, adding that mobile phones can …

E-Jagratha to e-mpower children
8 years, 5 months ago

E-Jagratha to e-mpower children

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: The cyber world is expanding with each passing day and the information and entertainment it provides has become so voluminous that the new generation needed to be guided on several aspects about it. Identifying this, the Ernakulam District Administration is joining hands with IT major Tata Consultancy Limited to digitally empower school students and guide them against falling into …

Students get smartphones for above 75% attendance in Indore
8 years, 6 months ago

Students get smartphones for above 75% attendance in Indore

Hindustan Times  

Minister of higher education Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya on Tuesday distributed smartphones among 55 students from 11 government colleges of Indore for having over 75% attendance in their freshman year. The BJP in its 2013 assembly election manifesto had promised to give smartphones to hard working and committed students of government colleges. During his 55-minute speech on Tuesday, Pawaiya said: “In …

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