Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): With educational institutions closed due to COVID19 pandemic, a teenaged boy from Baramulla district of Kashmir has developed an online teaching portal for students of the valley.
Abid Ali Sofi, 18, who hails from Sopore town of Baramulla district, is helping so many home-bound students amid coronavirus crises.
Abid has developed ‘Blooming Dales’- an interactive website to teach students from classes 2nd to 10th online. He has spent Rs 5,000 from his pocket to develop this website that can even work on low-internet speed.
“When government closed all the institutions in Kashmir due to COVID19, students were sitting home, without anyone helping them. I got the idea of making some online platform, where they can learn something,” Abid told NVI in an exclusive chat.
Presently, around 10 teachers have registered with him and 50 more teachers have agreed to work with him free of cost.
To begin with they are teaching Science, English, English grammar and Communication skills to students online. Students from Class 2nd till 10th can get the online coaching in these subjects.
Abid said one of the main reasons, why he was compelled to start an imitative like this was to restrict the movement of students to private tutors. “I saw most of the students going for private tuitions. But assembly of more people is dangerous, so that’s why I thought of starting something for student community,” he said.
Abid is now planning to open his Facebook page to spread word about this website, so that more and more students are connected to him.
He said whosoever wants to get connected to us they have to go the website, “they have to signup first, then we provide them User ID and password and once he/she logs in into the website, all the courses get unlocked,” Abid said.
To be part of this initiative to help the students, many teachers from Srinagar, north and south Kashmir have joined hands.
