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PRAGYATA Guidelines

  • 15 Jul 2020

  • The Human Resource and Development Ministry has announced guidelines for digital education /online classes operationalised by schools amid the COVID pandemic.
  • The PRAGYATA guidelines include eight steps of digital learning that is, Plan- Review- Arrange- Guide- Yak (talk) - Assign- Track- Appreciate.
  • The Guidelines emphasize the need to unify all efforts related to digital, online education, benefitting school going children across the country. The initiative includes DIKSHA, SWAYAM Prabha, Radio Vahini and ShikshaVaani.

Screen Time: The HRD Ministry has suggested that the online classes for pre-primary students should not be for more than 30 minutes a day. For Classes 1st to 8th, it has suggested that not more than two online sessions of upto 45 minutes each should be conducted in a day. For the senior students, from class 9th to 12th, the Ministry has suggested to limit the online classes to a maximum of four sessions of upto 45 minutes each. . The guidelines have been issued keeping in mind the overall development of the students with an aim to cut down undue screen time.