Teacher Training for Maha Syllabus Change to Be Broadcast on Guj Channel: Tawde

Mumbai, Sep 21 (PTI) Teachers will be provided digital training in connection with the change in the curriculum of Classes I to VIII from the academic year 2018-19, Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde said Friday.

He said that the training would be broadcast on Gujarat's free Doordarshan DTH channel.

He informed reporters that broadcasting the training modules on Maharashtra's DD Sahyadri channel would have come at a cost whereas the Gujarat government, which has 16 educational channels, had offered to beam it free on the "Vande Gujarat" channel.

He added that the training would be in Marathi.

Responding to criticism from the opposition on using a channel from Gujarat, Tawde said, "We haven't used the services of any channel from Pakistan."

The Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, Dhananjay Munde, however, criticised the decision and said that if the state government had so much love for Gujarat, then it should shift the capital to Gandhinagar.

Referring to a decision by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to observe September 29 as "surgical strike day" to commemorate India's 2016 cross-border action to destroy Pakistan-based terror camps, Tawde said it would be implemented.

"Ensuring that this feat of the soldiers reaches all students is a good initiative," Tawde said.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) had Thursday directed varsities and higher educational institutions across the country to observe September 29 as "Surgical strike day".

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