NEW DELHI: Reaching out to students during the lockdown, Doordarshan and every one India Radio are broadcasting virtual classes and other educational content through their regional channels across the country on TV, radio, and YouTube.
As all schools across the country are closed, these virtual classes are helping lakhs of scholars, especially those in schools 10 and 12, in preparation for his or her board and competitive examinations, consistent with a political statement.
The virtual learning through DD and AIR includes curriculum-based classes for primary, middle and high-school level students.
Secondary School Leaving Certificate subjects and model question papers for sophistication 10 students also are being made available in some states, it said.
Many of those classes help students steel themselves against their engineering and medical entrance examinations.
To keep the training interesting, aside from course books, virtual classes in few states include quiz shows and storytelling by eminent personalities, it said, adding that the majority of those classes start early morning and few are repeated within the afternoon.
Doordarshan Kendras that are already broadcasting virtual classes is Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, and Jammu and Kashmir.

All India Radio stations broadcasting virtual classes are Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Puducherry, Madurai, Trivandrum, Tirunelveli, Panaji, Jalgaon, Ratnagiri, Sangli, Parbhani, Aurangabad, Pune, Nagpur, Mumbai, Gangtok, Guwahati, Bikaner, Udaipur, Jodhpur, and Jaipur.
The stations broadcasting educational content are Bhopal, Chennai, Kozhikode, and Thrissur. On an average, a DD channel is airing two-and-a-half hours of educational content daily and an All India Radio channel half-hour.

Also, the entire number of hours of daily content across DD network is 17 hours and 11 hours across All India Radio network, it said.