New Delhi, June 29: A revolution in education is in the offing with the development of an indigenous technology for the large-scale preparation of teaching aids by the Indian Registry of Pathology (IRP) in New Delhi.
Originally developed for teaching pathology in medical colleges, the development can be adapted for the teaching of any subject in schools and colleges, it is said.
The IRP technology essentially consists in the presentation of teaching material in slides. IRP is now producing black and white colour slides of autopsy specimens, whole disease organs, charts, formulas and tables as teaching material for medical students, Dr. S. Sriramachari, Director of the Registry, said.
The impact on education of the ‘slide technology’ will be tremendous, it is said, because IRP’s methods for mass-producing colour transparencies at an extremely low cost is based on the ordinary Eastman cinematographic film.
So far slides have been made with conventional colour film like “Kodachrome and Ektachrome at a cost of over Rs. 4 per slide. IRP slides cost less than 40 paise each.
“The use of cinematographic film for this purpose has ushered in a virtual technological revolution,” Dr. Sriramachari said.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has expressed interest in the IRP technology for making educational slides. What would take 15 minutes to draw on the blackboard can be shown in one slide, Dr. Sriramachari said.
Published – June 30, 2025 01:20 am IST
