Tapas Trust launches Digital Education for Class 1 – 10 Nation Wide
- Classes in Hindi and English complying with the NCERT curriculum for NIOS Students
The Chennai based NGO, Tapas Trust has
launched a Digital Education Program (DEP) for NIOS Board students recently for
Classes 1 to 10.Tapas Trust has partnered with 11 NGOs and implemented the DEP
in 19 schools in Tamil Nadu , Kerala, Karnataka, UttarPradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra,
Uttarakhand, benefiting more than 1000
students from different communities, free of cost .
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S.Lakshminarayanan, Course Director
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The Course Director and Managing
Trustee, Shri.S.Lakshminarayanan, explained the special features built into the
content design and development, and the centralised delivery and monitoring
system. This DEP covers 8 subjects and 2500 hours of core content plus revision
hours covering classes 1 to 10 delivered in Hindi and English complying with
the NCERT curriculum for NIOS Students. S.Lakshminarayanan, a Chartered
Accountant has conceptualised and designed this program and compressed Classes
1 to 10 in 5 years, so that dropouts and children in the 9-11 age group
who are not sound in the basics could start afresh and still complete Secondary
education when they turn 15.
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Warrier Foundation at Panvel, Mumbai
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L.Shrinivaasan and L.Bhuvaneshwari have
quit their formal education and have taken up this task pro bono and
contributed video lectures for the 8 Subjects. The maths and science classes
are delivered by L.Shrinivaasan and the languages & Home Science by
L.Bhuvaneshwari .
Classes will be accessible by the Students
from any part of the Country through internet using a customised
LMS Application designed by the Trust. Teachers will be available online
to clarify doubts, evaluate answers and provide feedback.
Speaking on the occasion:
Dr C.B Sharma, Ex Chairman NIOS lauded
the efforts of Tapas Trust in digitising the classes 1-10 and appreciated the
quality of the content besides the utility to Students in remote areas.
Dr Uma Sivaraman, Retd. Dy Commissioner,
KVS appreciated the techniques used in the content design and the focus to
serve the poor girl child.
Dr C.L Ramakrishnan, Ex CBI Director, Ex
DGP commented that this program is especially useful during the corona
epidemic. He also appreciated the approach taken to teach languages by re-
sequencing the steps and the enormous exercise of translating one million
pairs of sentences in Hindi to English and vice versa.
Shri.Madhavan.Warrier, Managing Trustee,
Warrier Foundation one of the NGOs in two whose at Kerala, this program was
launched, thanked TAPAS TRUST and also had positive feedback of the
program already implemented in their Vedic School at Mumbai on 20th June
this year.
Tapas Trust is in discussions with
various NGOs to make this program available free for several lakhs of children
especially in rural and hilly areas in the North , East, West, North-East parts
of the country given the easy implementability and scalability.
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