HYDERABAD: Students of classes VIII to X of schools following the State syllabus can get ‘Radio Lessons’ under the ‘Vidya Tharangalu’ programme going on air from July 1. An initiative of the Department of School Education, it is expected to reach out to an estimated 19 lakh students across the State through 12 All India Radio (AIR) stations - Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kadapa, Warangal, Tirupati, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Markapuram, Anantapur, Kurnool and Kothagudem at 6.25 p.m. daily. AIR and State Council for Education, Research and Training (SCERT), launched the lessons in an interactive format to make them appealing for students and supplement the classroom teaching, AIR Station Director P.S. Gopala Krishna told a media conference here on Monday.
The 30-minute capsules will be broadcast twice a week for students of each class - Monday and Tuesday (IX class), Wednesday and Thursday (X class) and Friday and Saturday (VIII class). A teacher-educator’s programme to improve teaching methodology would be aired every Friday from 12.40 p.m. to 1.40 p.m. The production work of the programme is being handled by radio producers from AIR stations at Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam, Sailaja Suman, Director (Marketing), Prasar Bharati said.
SCERT Director D. Ravindranatham, who released the material, said the programme was revived last year for students of IX and X and this year VIII standard was included. The SCERT would pay Rs. 43 lakh a year to Prasar Bharati for the broadcast. The lessons are likely to be launched for the newly-introduced CBSE stream in September. Meanwhile, the SCERT would start revising the 13-year-old textbooks for the State syllabus from 2009-10.
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