Loudspeakers replace teachers in virus-hit Indian schools

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Recorded lessons form part of a non-profit initiative spread over six villages. FMTNews Virus

Children listen to pre-recorded lessons over a loudspeaker in a village in Maharashtra, India last week.

The children sang rhymes and answered questions, with some of them speaking of the loudspeaker as ‘Speaker Brother’ or ‘Speaker Sister’. Reuters followed the volunteers last week as they carried the loudspeaker through villages in the Indian state of Maharashtra where children awaiting its arrival had gathered at designated, socially-distanced spots.

But response to the programme, called ‘Bolki Shaala’ or ‘Spoken School’ in the state language of Marathi, has been encouraging, Shringarpure added.

 

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