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Rajasthan, or to children in Madhya Pradesh who used a variant of Hindi as their mother tongue). Modern ET has its potential in schools, in the teaching of subjects, in examinations, in research, in systemic reforms, and, above all, in teacher education, overcoming the conventional problems of scale and reach through online, anytime, anywhere. Keli-Kali Radio Programme in Karnataka (Government of Karnataka, AIR) The Keli-Kali radio project was initiated in 2000–01 in two districts (Raichur and Gulbarga) of North Karnataka to provide support to classroom teaching. About 2, 50,000 Class III students in 5,000 schools benefited from the broadcast aimed from two radios stations.

The process of the development of the radio lessons involved the following steps: 1. Identification of hard spots; 2. Teachers’ training in script development; 3. Development of scripts and editing; 4. Preparation of teachers’ handbooks and orientation of Block Resource Centres (BRCs) and Cluster Resource Centres (CRCs); 5. Training of all teachers by BRCs and CRCs; 6. Provision of funding by the state government for the purchase of radio sets, RCCPs and dry cells; 7. Discussion in CRCs meetings about stocktaking, reporting, and sorting out problems relating to ensuring the listening of the radio lessons; 8. Organization of audio-conferencing with teachers and BRCs/CRCs for getting feedback; 9. Documentation and research to determine the effectiveness of the project.