Shri Samir Ranjan Dash, Hon’ble Minister of School and Mass Education inaugurated the online learning management portals “E-Pathashala” http://epathshala.odisha.gov.in/ and “E-Mulyankan” http://emulyankan.odisha.gov.in/ on thursday, 17 June 2021. Amid the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and closure of schools, Government of Odisha launched these two online portals for the students under School & Mass Education Department (S&ME) in the State of Odisha to provide digital content, online teaching and assessment (both online & offline).

Shri Satyabrata Sahu, IAS and Principal Secretary, Department of School and Mass Education said the students who dropped out due to the COVID-19 pandemic and also the migrant students would find the portal useful and their assessment can be done online.

Shri Bhupendra Singh Poonia, IAS, State Project Director (SPD), OSEPA spoke about the steps initiated to provide teaching through the portal to the students from June 21 across the State.