GANDHINAGAR: With a
large number of students, especially those in rural areas, being deprived of
education during the lockdown and subsequent online education, the government plans to provide gap education to those who
are facing subject difficulties because of online classes.
Education minister Jitu Vaghani recently chaired a meeting to address the
issues of students facing difficulties in understanding courses of various
subjects due to online education.
Speaking to media persons on Wednesday, Vaghani said, “The
government has received wide-scale feedback that due to online education,
school students are facing issues in understanding lessons. Many students could
not get online education in rural areas also. To help all such students, we
have formed an expert committee who will study issues faced by the students due
to online education.”
“The government has allowed offline education for students of
Class 6 and above, and the government is considering opening classroom
education for Classes 1 to 5 as well. Academic experts will map the gap in
students’ knowledge and work out plans to match it during offline teaching.
Rural students also faced a lot of issues which we will address shortly. Our
purpose is to help students adjust to offline education again and teach them
well so they can do better in higher studies,” he added.