Government of Chhattisgarh has organised Jawaharlal Nehru National Education Conclave during 14th& 15th Nov 2021, in which 27 states and 2 union territories participated. Honorable Chief Minister Shri Bhupesh Baghel released the document ‘Vision 2030 for Education’. The conclave has been addressed by Nobel laureate Dr. Abhijeet Benarjee and eight panel discussions have been chaired by different education experts.

The conclave included presentation on ‘TelePractice’ from NIC, Chhattisgarh. Dr. A. K. Hota, DDG &SIO, and Shri. A. K. Somasekhar, Sr. Technical Director,NIC, Chhattisgarh presented the platform.

TelePractice is a technical platform to conduct oral quiz or enable speaking practice by students, using social media platform ‘TELEGRAM’ and back-end processing using ‘Python’. Teacher creates a Telegram group and adds students of a particular class. At the scheduled time all the students participate in the quiz from their homes. Teacher puts a question image in the group, students give answers as a voice messages.

Like that 10 to 20 question images shall be put in the group and students answer through voice messages. A python program shall create personalized videos for each student with their name, photo and voice answers given by the student. The videos are available for the teacher to assess and grade them. System gives randomized gifts to the student to gamify the oral quiz.

The presentation was well appreciated. Many states including Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh have expressed their interest to use TelePractice in their states.