Lok Sabha Question No. 2868 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-21
Subject: Online Coaching
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Kani K. Navas

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2868 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.03.2022

## Online Coaching

2868. SHRI K. NAVASKANI:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether there is any statistical data on the drop in educational performance due to restrictions on live coaching resulting in online classes for the students;
- (b)  whether there is any Strategy to improve on the education standards which is affected due to online coaching; and
- (c)   if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SMT. ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a)  to  (c):  Ministry  of  Education  has  conducted  the  National  Achievement  Survey  (NAS) 2021  all  across  the  country  on  12.11.2021  and  has  covered  (a)  Government  Schools (Central  Government  and  State  Government);  (b)  Government  Aided  Schools;  and  (c) Private Unaided Schools. Subjects covered are Language, Mathematics & EVS for class 3 &    5;  Language,  Mathematics,  Science  &  Social  Science  for  class  8  and  Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and English for class 10.

About 34 lakh students of 1.18 lakh schools from both rural and urban areas, have appeared in NAS 2021, which was conducted in 22 mediums of instruction. The objective of NAS 2021 is to evaluate children's progress and learning competencies as an indicator of the health of the education system, so as to take appropriate steps for remedial actions at  different  levels.  National,  State/UT  and  District  Report  cards  are  released  to  enable analysis of results and remedial action at the appropriate levels.

Ministry  of  Education  has  taken  several  initiatives  to  improve  the  education standards. A comprehensive initiative called PM eVIDYA has been taken which unifies all efforts related to digital/online/on-air education to enable multi-mode access to education. The initiative includes, the following components:

-  DIKSHA the nation's digital infrastructure for providing quality e-content for school education  in  states/UTs:  and  QR  coded  Energized  Textbooks  for  all  grades  (one nation, one digital platform).
-  One earmarked Swayam Prabha TV channel per class from 1 to 12 (one class, one channel).
-  Extensive use of Radio, Community radio and CBSE Podcast- Shiksha Vani.
-  Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible  Information  System  (DAISY)  and  in  sign  language  on  NIOS  website/ YouTube .

Further, an Alternate Academic Calendar has been prepared for providing learning solutions for grade 1 to 12 and 'Students' Learning Enhancement Guidelines prepared by NCERT suggest models for the following three types of scenarios to ensure that no child is deprived of reach of education:

- a)  Learning Enhancement during COVID-19 for students without digital devices;
- b)  Learning Enhancement during COVID-19 for students with limited accessibility to digital devices &
- c)  Learning Enhancement during COVID-19 for students with digital devices.

Also, PRAGYATA guidelines issued to States/UTs to facilitate continued education through  various  modes.  The  guidelines  inter-alia  includes  situations  where  internet connectivity  is  not  available  or  available  with  very  less  bandwidth  where  resources  are shared through various platforms like television, radio etc. that do not depend on internet.

Where the digital facility (mobile device/ DTH television) is not available, Ministry of Education has taken many initiatives like Community Radio Stations and a podcast called Shiksha Vani of CBSE,  Textbooks,  worksheet  supplied to residence of learners, Handbook on 21st Century Skills and community/mohalla classes. Innovation Funds under Samagra Shiksha are used to set up mobile schools, virtual studios, virtual classrooms in schools, pre-loaded tablets, in various states and UTs in remote/rural areas where online classes  are  difficult.  Further  in  order  to  provide  continuous  professional  development opportunities  to  the  teachers  at  the  elementary  level,  this  Department  launched  the NISHTHA online training programme using DIKSHA platform in October 2020. NISHTHA online for elementary level covered 18 modules in 11 languages, including use of ICT in teaching-learning.

A comprehensive learning recovery plan (LRP) has been issued on 01.02.2022 to support States/UTs under Samagra Shiksha to provide a multipronged & holistic approach to  ensure  that  children  received  suitable  support.  Under  this,  support  is  provided  to States/UTs for various interventions including Learning Enhancement Programme (LEP), Teacher  Resource  Package  (TRP),  Oral  Reading  Fluency  Study  (ORF),  ICT  facility  to Block  Resource  Centers  (BRCs),  Strengthening  of  Clusters  Resource  Centers  (CRCs), etc.

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