While the Universities, School Education Department and Higher Education Department are developing e-content and tutorials for the students, the non-availability of high speed 4G internet is playing a spoilsport.
The various academic websites and the Youtube tutorialchannels due to poor internet speed are difficult for students to access
The delay in restoration of 4G internet is also taking atoll on the research scholars in pursuing their doctorates in differentuniversities of Kashmir.
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has instructedthe Universities and higher educational institutions to prepare online contentand online teachings during the closure period. The instructions have beenissued to avoid academic lose of the students pursuing higher educationalcourses amid the looming threat of Coronavirus spread.
In wake of this order, all the universities have uploadedthe e-tutorials and video lectures on the university website for theconvenience of students.
But the non-availability of the high speed internet isplaying a spoilsport for the students as the efforts put in by the universitiesare not bearing any fruits for the students.
Registrar KU Dr Nisar Ahmad Mir said they are already in theprocess of preparing e-content and tutorials for students which will beuploaded on university website.
“We also have a dedicated channel for students, which isavailable on Dish TV where students get televised classes,” he said.
The authorities in Central University of Kashmir (CUK) havealso uploaded the content for students on the varsity website. However, due tolow speed internet it is inaccessible for students.
“We have kept everything available on website, but it is notserving any purpose at the receiving end because of 2G internet. Students arenot able to access the website and download the content,” VC CUK, Prof.Mehraj-u- Din said.
He said the students need 4G internet speed to download thee-content and video lectures available on the university website.
An official in IT department of Islamic University ofScience and Technology (IUST) also lamented that the students were not gettingany kind of online education during the closure period given thenon-availability 4G internet.
“Even though we have kept everything available on website,but it is not serving any purpose for students because they are not able todownload it. Our efforts go waste because it is not helping students,” theofficial said.
The students also complained that the UGC instructions toprepare e-content and tutorials was not helping them in absence of high speedinternet.
“The university website is completely out of bounds for us.We are not able to surf it, forget downloading the content. Unless the Government won’t restore highspeed mobile internet, preparing e-content is a futile exercise,” said Sabba, aCUK student.
The high speed mobile internet service continues to remainsuspended in Valley since August 5 last year after the abrogation of specialstatus of J&K.