NEW INITIATIVE: Punjab to start radio classrooms from Dec 20

Chandigarh, December 17, 2012: The Punjab government has decided to start Radio Classrooms in all government Primary Schools from December 20 under its Parvesh Project, aimed to bring qualitative improvement in primary education.

Disclosing this here today, Sikander Singh Maluka, Education Minister Punjab said that under this new arrangement a special 20 minutes education programme would be telecast through regional centre of FM Jalandhar, FM Rainbow, Jalandhar, Local Radio Station, Bathinda and Patiala from 2:30 PM to 2:50 PM for primary education. He said that this new initiative was aimed to impart education on selected subjects in a simple but an interesting manner by using the strong medium of radio.

He said that the Punjab government was committed to upgrade primary education and decided to adopt different mediums and interesting manners to develop more interest for education amongst tender minds. He said that after comprehensive study it was found that by using the medium of radio, some tough concepts could be explained to the kids in a simple manner and the special radio classroom initiative would also help the young minds to concentrate on studies.

Meanwhile, the Education Minister has directed K.S. Pannu, Director General School Education to ensure provision of radio sets in all the government primary schools besides educating the teachers about the channel and its frequency for this new radio classroom system. He has also directed to finalise the schedule for telecast of radio programme so that the concerned teachers could organize their students before the start of this programme.

He also directed all District Education Officers (Elementary Education) to ensure that radio sets in each school were in a working condition and if there was any problem in any school it should be fixed well before the start of telecast.