ISRO has confirm to help the Indian government set up satellite TV classrooms in an effort to make the digital divide in rural India due to which thousands of students across India are unable to get access to online classes during the Covid-19 school closures.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gave the signal to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education on Friday to offer technical assistance in this regard to help bridge the learning gap.
ISRO scientists gave a detaile presentation in front of the committee about the satellite TV classrooms that have been propose.
Education secretaries and senior officials of five states including Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Arunachal Pradesh also attended the panel meeting.
Should India need Satellite TV Classes?
The learning gap and the digital divide between privileged and underprivileged students is quite large despite the many solutions the Indian government has try to implements through online platforms, and classes on radio, Whatapp and mobile phones.
The main reason is the lack of laptops, smartphones or internet among the underprivileged communities.
Rural students have been report to be resorting to climbing trees, hills and even trekking through forests to get internet for online classes.
The ISRO scientists made a presentation on how the satellite TV classes could be implement and used.
Satellite TVs will help to broadcast school-based educational programmes which also help the issue of lack of laptops, smartphones and data connectivity can be solve.
Students can attend these satellite TV classes in cluster classrooms, primarily in rural areas.
If this process is properly implemente then it can do much to bridge the digital divide among students in India.
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