Free official classes this week

Government channels and portals that teach for free: SATHEE (Ministry of Education and IIT Kanpur), SWAYAM PRABHA TV, NPTEL and the PM eVidya class channels. Shishya runs none of these classes; every time below is copied from the official schedule, with the day we read it. Times are Indian Standard Time. Tap a time to add it to your calendar.

Live means a teacher is on air at that time. Most SWAYAM PRABHA programmes are recorded lectures shown at fixed times and repeated during the day, so they are listed separately as TV telecasts.

Live sessions

PM eVidya class channels (Class 1 to 12)

Each NCERT class channel has a weekly live session with subject experts, as printed in CIET-NCERT's October 2026 schedules (read 22 Oct 2026).

The October 2026 schedules we read do not cover the coming days. Open CIET-NCERT's schedule page for this month's PDF for your class; the live session day and time are printed in it.

SATHEE (sathee.iitk.ac.in)

  • NEET Achievers Batch – Evening Programme (12th Passout): started 3 Sep 2026, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM. The notice prints no weekdays and no joining link. Ask SATHEE on its site or app how to join.
  • Live doubt clearing: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (lunch 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM), except 2nd Saturday, Sunday and holidays. The page said the daily sessions are temporarily unavailable due to internal maintenance.
  • No SATHEE crash course was announced on the site when we read it.

Read on sathee.iitk.ac.in, 27 Oct 2026.

NPTEL

NPTEL's live-session sheet for July-December 2026 listed no sessions when we read it on 27 Oct 2026; that semester's courses have ended. January 2027 courses start on 18 Jan 2027.

On TV: SATHEE and IIT PAL channels (SWAYAM PRABHA)

Free on DD Free Dish and Dish TV, and on the JioTV app; SWAYAM PRABHA also streams them on its live page. Each programme is shown several times a day — every time below is a telecast. Read from each channel's official schedule page on 30 Oct 2026.

SATHEE Engineering — engineering entrance (JEE)

CH 01: SATHEE-ENGINEERING · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

No programmes from today on in what we read. Open the official schedule for today's list.

SATHEE Medical — medical entrance (NEET)

CH 02: SATHEE-MEDICAL · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

SATHEE Law — law entrance (CLAT)

CH 03: SATHEE-LAW · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

SATHEE Agricultural — agriculture entrance (ICAR)

CH 04: SATHEE-AGRICULTURAL · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

No programmes from today on in what we read. Open the official schedule for today's list.

SATHEE SSC — SSC exams

CH 05: SATHEE-SSC · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

SATHEE Bank — banking exams

CH 06: SATHEE-BANK · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

SATHEE RRB (Railway) — railway exams

CH 07: SATHEE-RRB (Railway) · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

Tue 3 Nov

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

IIT PAL — Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology lectures (SWAYAM PRABHA prints the level as UG/PG)

Channel 22: IIT PAL · official schedule ↗ · watch on SWAYAM PRABHA ↗

Wed 4 Nov

Thu 5 Nov

Find today's schedule yourself

  • SWAYAM PRABHA: open the channel's live page, tap a channel, then "Program Schedule" — it lists the day's programmes with every telecast time. SATHEE channels ↗
  • Setting up DD Free Dish for these channels: SWAYAM PRABHA's help manual ↗.
  • PM eVidya: CIET-NCERT posts one schedule PDF per class each month; find today's date in it.
  • SATHEE: notices appear on the SATHEE home page under Notifications.
  • NPTEL: the "Live Sessions" link at the foot of nptel.ac.in opens NPTEL's session sheet.

Sources: swayamprabha.gov.in, sathee.iitk.ac.in, nptel.ac.in, ciet.ncert.gov.in. Schedules change; the official page is always the final word.

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