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| Students in border areas fail to take online classes | | Digital India still a distant dream | | S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
BARAMULLA (Uri), June 13: In the age of digital India, scores of students from border areas have failed to take regular online classes either due to poor internet connectivity or they don’t have an internet connectivity facility at all.
Syed Aahil Ali student of Upper Kindergarten (UKG) from Kamalkote village of Uri sector appeals, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to install mobile networks in their area so that their future could be saved.
The video has gone viral on social media networks where a kindergarten student was heard to say about the problems that students are facing due to the pandemic.
Due to covid-19 all the government and private schools are closed in Jammu and Kashmir, however first priority is to save lives, though government has taken good steps of online classes, but many students have failed to take online classes due to no internet connectivity in their areas, said Abdul Majeed Khan of Uri.
Sources said that there are scores of villages in far flung areas of Jammu and Kashmir, like Uri, Gurez in Bandipora district, Kalaroos, Chowkibal, Tangdhar and Teetwal of Kupwara district where there is no internet connectivity due to which students of Primary and Higher classes couldn’t take online classes and with the result they are losing their studies.
At many places like of Kamalkote the tower was installed by the Jio telecommunication company but they have not activated these towers yet due to which students are facing tremendous problems.
Another 4th class student from the same village appealed to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, that the mobile tower has been installed but that is not working, due to which they lose their online classes. She shared a video talking about her problems where she said that due to the lack of mobile network in the village, she couldn’t take online classes.
Some parents said that last year students had to trek for a few kilometers in certain areas to get a proper signal so that they could attend online classes or submit their homework, but this time the situation is not like that.
Since the start of the lockdown the Jammu and Kashmir administration and education department started online classes through various mediums like Whatsapp and classes via Doordarshan on television. |
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