About 75 million children of 80 thousand schools will do these courses
A program is being started from April 5 to compensate for the loss of education in the academic session 2020-21 due to the lockdown caused by the corona epidemic in Bihar. It has been named the catchup course. It will include about one and a quarter to two crore children of about 80 thousand government schools in the state.
80 thousand schools include 43 thousand primary, 29 thousand middle schools and 8 thousand secondary-higher secondary schools. With this special syllabus prepared with the help of NCEAT, students of second to 10th class will study. This course will run till 30 June. The subjects taught to children during the catchup course will be repeated last year. While the new class will start from July 1.
Teachers have been given special training to teach catch-up courses. In the first phase, master trainers were prepared at the state level. The work of training of teachers has been completed in the district headquarters at the second level and the block and cluster level at the third level.
According to the Department of Education, schools remained closed for almost the whole year due to the lockdown in the academic session 2020-21. Due to which there has been a lot of loss of children’s education. To compensate for this loss, a special course has been designed with the help of NCERT. During the catchup course, the children will read the old class lessons till the month of June. Second grade children will read the first, third grade children will read the second, fourth grade children. Similarly, children of other classes will also read the lesson of the main chapter of the previous class.
Children passed without examination for two consecutive years
Explain that due to Corona epidemic, schools in Bihar were closed on 13 March 2020. Due to this, the annual examination could not be held and then the children were promoted to the next class without examination. After this, schools were opened from 4 th January 2021 with half attendance from 9th to 12th, 6th to 8th from 8th February and 1st to 5th from 1st March. Even in 2021, no government school has taken the annual examination of any class. The department has promoted children from first to eighth class without taking the exam and then promoted to the next class. Due to lack of assessment for two years, the level of learning of children has not been tested.