Punjab government set to launch ‘Educare App’ for students

Sanjeev Singh Bariana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 28

The Punjab Government is all set to launch ‘Educare App’ within a fortnight. The mobile-based app will have chapters, assignments and quizzes for pre primary to Class XII students on a single platform.

As a result, students of around 19,500 government schools would get access to classroom lessons and could appear in tests even if they miss their classes due to non-availability of smartphones.

Krishan Kumar, Secretary (Education), said, “We have sent content details to Google. We will start the classes soon.”

The application has been developed by a special team comprising assistant director Salinder Singh, state coordinator (primary) Dr Davinder Boha, state coordinator (science) Sushil Bhardwaj, state coordinator (math) Nirmal Kaur, Chander Shekhar, Jaswinder Singh, Harjeet Kumar and Deepak Kumar.

Speaking to The Tribune, Chander Shekhar, said, “At present, students are using Doordarshan, NCERT and other sites to study. Students have to download the entire data on their smartphones. Our app will provide all the links at a common platform and there will be no need to download the learning material.”

Teachers and students will be facilitated to have easy access to syllabus, textbooks (pdf), worksheets, assignments and quizzes, among others. It will help staff and children to recapitulate any topic whenever they want.

Meanwhile, work on the capacity-building programme for faculty and managerial staff has also commenced. The state coordinators of different subjects and public-private partnership teams at district-levels have been asked to prepare video lectures, worksheets, assignments and quizzes.