One may think it's just another one of 150-odd municipal schools in the city. However, a classroom on the first floor of the City of Los Angeles municipal school in Mahim (Mumbai) can take one by surprise. The room looks ordinary from the outside: The paint on the wall is peeling and age has caught up with the sturdy wooden benches. The students stare intently, not at a blackboard, but at a huge plasma screen.

The teacher, Ajit Raul, is at least 15 km away at a studio in Andheri, giving a maths lecture in Marathi to the students in this classroom, along with students in 79 other Brihanmumbai Mahanagar Palika (BMC) schools across the city. Raul is not alone. Nivas Shevale and 38 other BMC teachers use the studio at Andheri (east), where they address around 18,000 students across 80 such schools daily, using very small aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite communication technology.........Read More

Source: Business Standard