KITE facilitates offline digital classes for Lakshadweep students

Thiruvananthapuram, July 19

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The Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has come out with a plan to provide the offline version of its ‘First Bell 2.0′ digital classes’ for the students in Lakshadweep region, who study in Kerala syllabus.

This is further to the request by the Directorate of Education, Lakshadweep Administration to KITE to provide the digital contents offline to the students in Lakshadweep, where there are issues with respect to internet connectivity and availability of DTH channel, an official statement said here.

Further to this, the Education Officer of Lakshadweep had visited the KITE State Office here, following which it has been decided to support the students in Lakshadweep by providing downloaded versions of digital contents of pre- primary to 12thStandard Classes on a monthly basis.

This initiative would directly benefit 6,420 students in 43 schools located in 10 islands of the archipelago, who study in the Kerala state syllabus.

Earlier in 2017 during the initial phase of the Hi- Tech school project in the State, KITE had provided a 10-day specific ICT training for 60 teachers from Lakshadweep at KITEs Regional Resource Centre at Ernakulam.

Even though more advanced training for these teachers were planned to be held last year, the same did not materialise due to Covid-19 pandemic,said K Anvar Sadath, CEO, KITE.

“KITE has been providing necessary support to Lakshadweep Department of Education for setting up Hi-Tech classrooms, on request,” he said.

Lakshadweep schools were also part of the EDUSAT network of Kerala from 2005 onwards, but over the years, the equipment have become dysfunctional.

From last year onwards, with its inclusion in all DTH networks, KITE VICTERS channel is now available in Lakshadweep region also.

However, due to the prevailing issues of availability of channels and also with respect to the internet connectivity in many areas in the Island, the need of the hour was to make available the First Bell Digital Classes in an offline mode, which can be directly given to the students, the statement added. PTI