After the students have learned gats of a few ragas, they could be trained to identify different ragas as a part of taleem. In this connection the following should be noted.
a. Paltas of several ragas are available with the students. From amongst these, a few paltas of ragas like Bhairav, Todi, Yaman etc. could be selected and students should be trained to learn them by heart.
b. The teacher could sing aroha – avroha of the identified few ragas in akar (and not by notations) to test the ability of the student to identify the concerned raga.
c. Student should be taught simple vocal bandishes of identified ragas. On having learned such bandishes, the student should be able to relate the melodic movements of the bandish with the palta. As a result, they would be able to identify the raga of the bandish.
d. Students should be encouraged to identify selected ragas through listening to music recitals on the web (YouTube).
After the student have been able to identify a raga comfortably, competitions could be held between students to identify swar as well as ragas, using different devices.