Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, May 25: National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) here has been insistent that children less than six years of age should not be exposed to online education. In its advice to the state government, the institute has opined that the eyes of the children less than six watching a digital screen for over an hour get affected. This can also have an adverse physical and mental effect on the children, it has observed in its report.

NIMHANS has said that as per a report of the World Health Organization, children less than six years of age should never spend more than one hour in front of a digital screen. It observed that subjecting children to experiments in the name of online education under the current circumstances in which the teachers do not have mastered the art or have the training for teaching the kids online, can be considered a criminal offence.

It may be recalled that education minister S Suresh Kumar who had repeatedly expressed himself against online education, had expressed his consternation at schools conducting online classes even for LKG and UKG students, and observed in a tweet that this is nothing but greed for money, duly adding that they will be subjected to action by the education department.