The portal will be named ‘e-Gyan Ganga’ and is expected to get launched by the first week of October.
UP Board is gearing up to launch a dedicated portal to aid around 12.5 million (1.25 crore) students enrolled in class 9 to class 12 at over 28,000 schools affiliated to it across the state who are studying from home due to the ongoing pandemic situation. Until now, the study material is available for students through various modes such as TV channels, radio and YouTube. However, it is not possible for the students to easily download or record any of these for later reference. The upcoming portal will assist students with downloading of authorised study material whose schools are now closed for almost six months, claim officials. The portal will be named ‘e-Gyan Ganga’ and is expected to get launched by the first week of October, the officials added.
Not wishing to reveal many details about the proposed portal, UP Board secretary Divyakant Shukla confirmed that the responsibility for designing and launching a dedicated website had been entrusted to the board. According to the plan, this dedicated portal would have all study materials, including video clips of lectures being broadcast on TV channels as well as content being made available through radio and other mediums. “The plan is to develop this portal as the main bridge between the students and the study content so that the impact of the pandemic on their studies could be minimised,” said a senior state education department official.
For students of Class 9 and Class 11, academic programmes are being presently aired on ‘Swayam Prabha’ channel-22 from 11 am to 1 pm every day. The repeat broadcast of the same is from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm. Likewise, for students of class 10 and class 12, Doordarshan is broadcasting programmes from 1 pm to 2 pm, 2.30 pm to 3 pm, 8.30 pm to 5 pm and 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm every day.
Meanwhile, on September 2, the UP Board also introduced dedicated helplines for students to provide them career counselling for the very first time. The toll-free numbers for the same are 18001805310 and 18001805312. This helpline is functional from Monday to Friday every week between 11 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm.
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