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“These [class lecture] videos are uploaded so haphazardly across the internet that no one can find a lecture that they want with a sane mind, let alone the presentation and consistency. This is all a massive sham,” he said.

KM Enamul Hoque, deputy director of the Campaign for Popular Education, said education through TV is a positive initiative. “It is releasing stress of students living at home. It is also continuing their learning habit in the emergency situation”, he said.

He however said it is only partially fulfilling the objective, as about a half of the country’s people -- many of them underprivileged, do not have access to TV sets. Most of them are from poor quantile, ethnic minorities, remote areas.

The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2019 of Boangladesh Bureau of Statistics shows that 50 percent households of the country do not have television sets.

Enamul said on one hand, many teachers praised the TV education, and on the other hand many complained that the classroom environment is absent in TV education lecture. In many cases, even the whiteboards were not clearly visible.

Asked about it, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education Director General Prof Syed Md Golam Faruk said they would address the issues.

“We have received allegations of unclear picture and are working on the issue. We are uploading all lectures at different Facebook pages including Kishore Batyan; we will make it more organised,” he added.