 has recently started ‘smart classes’ to help and enhance the knowledge of the local school children in Naxal affected areas of Kondagaon district in Chhattisgarh. Internet-based classes are called smart classes.){kind=link}
The classes are being taken by graduate ITBP personnel and have experience and knowledge to conduct such classes. The children, in return, teach the local Habli language to the jawans.
New Delhi: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has recently started ‘smart classes’ to help and enhance the knowledge of the local school children in Naxal affected areas of Kondagaon district in Chhattisgarh. Internet-based classes are called smart classes.
The Jawans of 41st Battalion here have been helping them to enhance their knowledge through the audio-visuals available on the internet with the help of computers and projectors.
According to the Force officials, evening classes have been started for remotely located village children in Maoist infested area Hadeli and adjoining peripheral villages in Kondagaon district.
The classes are being taken by graduate ITBP personnel and have the experience and knowledge to conduct such classes. Moreover, various online learning videos on YouTube, and with the help of e-learning websites have been also taken to teach the students by giving them enough opportunities to learn and practice.
The ITBP spokesperson said, “This is envisaged that the value addition of one hand a half-hour capsule course on a daily basis would in future enable the students to pursue higher studies and would help children to understand the methods of e-learning and virtual online classes.”
All these classes are organized through the mobile phone’s internet of jawans. Some 50 students are being benefitted from the initiative. In return, the jawans, who teach these children, are also being taught local Habli language by these children.
The region is densely populated with forest and week internet signals. The ITBP personnel hang their mobile set on a height through bamboo/ tree trunk/ tree where it receives good network and then it is connected through wifi hotspot to the laptop used for smart classes on screen through a projector. The sound is delivered through Bluetooth speakers.