Odisha's Visually-impaired Professor Records His Lectures in Home-built Studio to Teach amid Pandemic
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Odisha's Visually-impaired Professor Records His Lectures in Home-built Studio to Teach amid Pandemic

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At a time when the coronavirus pandemic has shifted most of the studies to online platforms, teachers and students are grappling the technology, internet services and other technical glitches that come with it. A recent report by The New Indian Express mentions how the 56-year-old History professor Kamakhi Das is utilising the quarantine days to record audio lectures for his students. Head of the History Department at Koraput Government College, Das has a humble recording studio at his residence where he is putting in his passion to teach his students into use. Talking to The New Indian Express, Das said that the questions and answers which he records are based on the syllabus of UGC- With the help of WhatsApp video class, Das also takes online classes for his students. Das had been awarded the Indian Red Cross State Award in 1999 and has urged the state government to take initiatives to start online classes or provide audio books to the visually-challenged students.

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