"No amount of online teaching can replace the power of classroom teacher-student interaction and the learning that takes place in this context. The classroom experience cannot be skipped," said Sharad Pandey, a science teacher at a government middle school.
Most of last year, a middle-aged man with a blackboard strapped to his motorcycle was seen making the rounds of Singrauli s remote tribal villages, after schools were ordered shut during the Covid-19 pandemic. For Sharad Pandey, a science .