Port Blair, May 10: Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Member of Parliament, A&N Islands has taken up the matter relating to distribution of text books to the students in the rural area with the Secretary (Education), A&N Administration and stated that in order to facilitate learning opportunity to the students, the department of education has initiated an alternative learning opportunity from their home through the local Doordarshan, Cable TV Network and All India Radio etc which is accessible only for the students residing in the HQ area having TV net work etc.
However, such facilities are not accessible for the students residing in many other Islands such as Swaraj Dweep, Saheed Dweep and also in the remote places in North & Middle Andaman and Southern Group of Islands due to poor networking and even many students do not have Cable connections. Moreover, the summer vacation for the schools across the A&N Islands would be commenced from 18th May, 2020 for two months and during summer vacation period, these students would be become idle at home until they have been provided text books at their home delivery. Therefore he requested the Secretary (Education) that necessary arrangements may be done by the education department for distribution of text books to the students in rural area including Swaraj Dweep and Saheed Dweep at the earliest so as to enable these students to learn and prepare themselves during summer vacation at home.
