Samvidhan Parivar holds panel discussion on school reopening

Nagpur: Social organization Samvidhan Parivar on Saturday held a panel discussion on ‘School reopening’. Many of the stakeholders who participated in the discussion felt that online classes were not benefiting majority of the students because of limited access to learning platforms.
The panel was chaired by Rajendra Sathe, who is the chairman of Asha workers Association. Sathe said that online classes have led to major health issues too as screen time for students has increased.
Professor Rahul Moon, coordinator of Samvidhan Pariwar, said that 70% of students have been affected in a negative way due to online classes. Professor Manohar Tambulkar said that education cannot be considered as complete unless teacher and students are back in classrooms.
One of the panellists, Krishna Yerawar, said they have noticed that overall students have become “dull” due to online classes as not much supervision is possible. Everyone is being passed in exams, which, Anil Imalkar felt, was unfair to those who had studied sincerely.
The panel resolved to approach public representatives over the issue and lobby for reopening of schools wherever it is safe to do so.