Online classes for standards 9 to 12 of MP board cancelled

Online classes for college students of standards 9 to 12 of the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education couldn’t start on Monday following an order from the board for cancellation of the classes.

Notably, the board’s chairperson Radheshyam Julaniya on Sunday night mentioned the tutorial session for classes 9 to 12 by on-line mode will start from Monday with telecast of audio-visual classes on Doordarshan from 7 am to 10 am.

Later within the evening, the board’s secretary Anil Suchari issued an order which mentioned, “The telecast from 7 am to 10 am is being cancelled. Thus, the classes will not be held.” Classes 9 to 12 of the state board comprise practically 35 lakh college students.

As per a latest nationwide pattern survey on family social consumption on schooling in India, simply 9.7 per cent rural and 55.four per cent city households in Madhya Pradesh have web connection.