Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank released the Alternative Academic Calendar for upper primary stage students today.<br />''<br />''NCERT under the guidance of Education Ministry has developed the alternative academic calendars for students , parents and teachers of primary and upper primary stages with an aim to engage students meaningfully during their stay at home due to COVID-19.<br />''<br />''Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Pokhriyal said that the calendar will empower students, teachers, school principals and parents to find out positive ways to deal with Covid-19 using on-line teaching-learning resources.<br />''<br />''He said, it will also improve the learning outcomes in the light of imparting school education at home.<br />''<br />''The Minister added that the calendar at upper primary stage for Classes 6 to 8 was earlier released for four weeks.<br />''<br />''Now the calendar for next eight weeks has also been released.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">He further said that the Calendar provides guidelines to teachers on the use of various technological tools and social media tools available for imparting education in fun-filled and interesting ways.</span><br />