Karnataka government scraps the expansion of award-winning tele-education project of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB)

The state government has scrapped expansion of the award-winning tele-education project run by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB). The Satellite and Advanced Multimedia Education (SAME) project currently reaches 200,000 students in 1,000 government schools in rural parts of the state, and was to be extended to another 1,000 schools as announced by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in his 2015-16 Budget. The project aims to bridge the gap in quality of education between rural and urban students in Karnataka.

The project's expansion has been stalled as the IIMB-led consortium implementing the project and education authorities are trying to sort out the differences that have cropped up along the way . 

Daily sessions conducted by teachers in the Department of State Education Research and Training (DSERT) studio in Banashankari 3rd stage are relayed live to students in classes five to 10 via receivers in the schools that pick them up from the satellite. 

CP Vishwanath, founder of the popular Karadi Tales, urged the government to encourage models such as tele-education. "It's impossible to look at any pedagogy that's dependent entirely on teachers, because there are simply not enough teachers". 

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