'India's online education surpassed many countries' Says Prakash Javadekar

NEW DELHI: India's online education surpassed many countries amid the Covid-19 crisis and covered all students across the country, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said in a reply to a query during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

In his response to the question whether the government has set any guidelines and standard for online education in the country and what kind of mechanism has been devised to ensure that online education abides by the guidelines and standards set by the government, he said our online education system covered students right from class 5 to higher education, after physical activities were barred in schools and colleges due to the Covid imposed lockdown.

"Underprivileged students were also covered" in the online education system for which the government ran 34 educational channels — 22 for higher education and 12 for school education, he added.

Besides this, a programme named 'Diksha' has also been implemented through which the government managed to ready millions of lectures.

"Nobody was deprived of education in India despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Education reached everyone without any advertisement," Javadekar said.

The minister spoke on the issue amid the din created by the Opposition seeking withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws. The Congress, DMK, ShiromaniAkali Dal, Shiv Sena and other parties trooped near the Speaker's podium raising slogans against the government after the Question Hour started, soon after the Lower House assembled for the day at 4 p.m. (IANS)

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