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By D N Singh
There is nothing so devastating about it nor it should be read as a cynical leering by a reporter that, many often the ruling dispensations get clinically detached from certain pressing issues at the bottom and deal with other avoidable agendas.
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There is nothing so devastating about it nor it should be read as a cynical leering by a reporter that, many often the ruling dispensations get clinically detached from certain pressing issues at the bottom and deal with other avoidable agendas.
So does the media which finds, more often than not, more selling points in issues like religious or communal divide, or an obsessive tilt towards Rheas or Kanganas.
Here what we have in focus is the yawning gaps between what is being preached and what is practised.
It is know to all that, since the outbreak of the pandemic education sector suffers the immediate onslaught of closures of institutions.
But since life must go on, governments all over are under the compulsion for online classes.
It is easier said than done.
In Odisha, as in many other states, lakhs of students fail to benefit out of the alternative mode of teaching as a sizable of them do not have smartphone with the required support and in many areas the network problems bugs the students.
Over 30 lakh students in Odisha are deprived of the online classes because all of them do not have smartphones.
And in majority of cases the congestion in network has added to the plight of the students.
As reported in a site Press Raygada, huge number of sudents in Raygada districts face grinding problem due to network failures and at a time when world claims to go digital in everything, students in the tribal thick Raygada climb up the hills, hillocks and to locations at larger heights to get the right network!
It may sound paradoxical yet it is the reality that it goes two ways; government looks the other way from the ground realities and the service providers care a hoot to the problems they are obliged to correct.
There is also case studies cited by Press Raygada that, even some students climb up the tall trees to obtain the network! Where are we?
Why can`t the service providers get the things upgraded? And knowing that such realities are order in the education sector post the Covid, why the government up its ante and ask the service providers to mend their ways.
It is not in remote parts of Raygada alone but the nagging network issues even haunt in many districts including the Capitol city Bhubaneswar.
When cores and cores could be earmarked under the Covid exigencies, a pittance could as well be spent on mobile network up gradation.
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