Rajasthan

• 01 Feb 2022

Launch of DST Homeschooling Podcast

Why in News

• On January 31, 2022, Rajasthan's Minister of State for Science and Technology Zahida Khan launched the innovative program DST-Homeschooling Podcast online. Initially, through this program, the syllabus of science subject from class 6 to 10 of the state will be available in Hindi and English language in a simple way.

Key Points

• Students of remote, tribal areas and western Rajasthan will also benefit from this podcast program and this podcast will prove useful for those students who do not have much internet bandwidth.
• This podcast will be available free of cost to all the students and all the podcasts will also be made available on the social media of the department such as Facebook, Instagram, through the link provided by the department, students will not only be able to listen to the entire science syllabus on the podcast but questions-answers will also be made available to them.
• The Minister of State for Science and Technology informed that Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has announced to establish Science-Space Club in more than 1700 Government Senior Secondary Schools with Science stream of the State in the year 2021-22 to connect science with technology.
• This program will benefit all those children, who are involved in school education or have not been able to join school education due to any reason. The syllabus of science subject from class 6 to 10 created through this program can be understood without books only by listening. Therefore, it will prove to be a good medium for the children to acquire knowledge.