Faridkot, December 8
In a move to improve e-learning, the School Education Department has started a project to provide 4,361 tablets (computers) to libraries in 872 government schools.
Costing around Rs 5 crore, these tablets would be supplied to the District Education Officers (DEOs) on Thursday and the DEOs would further distribute these electronic gadgets to the schools. Each of the 872 schools would get five tablets.
The state has 1,880 Government Senior Secondary Schools. The step has been taken in the light of increasing dependence on digital mediums. These tablets would be made available to students through the libraries as digital reference books.
Yadwinder Singh, assistant manager (hardware), School Education Department, said, “We will distribute all the tablets by this week.” While 22 districts would be provided the tablets, Amritsar has maximum share (400 tablets), followed by Ludhiana (336) and Patiala (320). Sukhjit Pal Singh, Director, School Education Department, said, “Education is being more technology-based. The government schools should not lag behind.”
“The present generation is using desktop computers. The app ecosystem in tablets provides an abundance of learning content for all ages,” said Yadwinder. — TNS
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