Tripura Government to start ‘Play Little, Study Little’ Scheme from 25th June

The state government of Tripura has decided to start a scheme for school students from 25^th June 2020. The scheme is named ‘Ektu Khelo, Ektu Padho’ –meaning ‘Play Little, Study Little’.

• The scheme will be implemented via SMS or WhatsApp. 
• For students, those who have access to smartphones of their parents will be able to access the scheme through WhatsApp. 
• For students having feature phones, they will be able to access through SMS.
• The objective of the scheme is to make sure that students invest their time in studies during these times of uncertainty as it could still take a couple of months for schools to reopen due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• As per the scheme name ‘Play little’, students apart from studies will also be provided with fun and games activities. 
• The scheme will benefit students from 4,398 government-aided and 335 private schools across the state.

How Students will get access to the scheme?

• Every morning, from the headquarter of the state’s Education Department the learning contents will be shared with the academic coordinator each district. 
• The coordinator of the district will share the same with the headmasters of the schools located in that particular district.
• The school headmasters will further share it with the teachers of their schools, a single teacher will have the responsibility of a particular number of students of the school. 
• The teacher will share the content will the students.