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Govt denies EDUSAT facility to distance learners | | | Early Times Report Jammu, Mar10: Ignoring the significance of Education Satellite equipment installed by ISRO both in Jammu and Srinagar, the state government has deprived the distance learners of this facility after the government declined to carry on its Annual Maintenance Contract which expired three years ago. The sources informed Early Times that Indian Space Research Organisation installed EDUSAT for the facility of distance learners in higher secondary schools and colleges across the state which has SITs connected with two EDUSAT hubs in Jammu and Srinagar to relay telecast lectures of renowned professors to educate students residing in far flung areas of the State. But ironically it has become redundant since last three years as the state government allegedly refused to own responsibility for its annual maintenance, which hitherto had been done by ISRO as per its standard operative procedures. Expressing astonishment over govt failure to pay required amount for annual maintenance charges, the sources rued the indifferent attitude of the administration which has hit the academic interest of thousands of students to learn via satellite linkages in around 100 education institutions in the state thereby keeping the education seekers at bay from this highly advanced technology of learning at door steps. The sources told that ISRO while setting up EDUSAT in the state in 2008 had made it crystal clear that after three years of its installation and maintenance, further annual maintenance of this infrastructure shall have to be borne by the state government. They informed that due to inefficiency of past two dispensations, the equipment worth crores of rupees, which is a big milestone in education system, has been made dysfunctional exposing recalcitrant approach of the government to debar students' fraternity from acquiring higher education sitting in remote corners of the state. When contacted Principal Govt College for Women Gandhinagar, she said that the matter for AMC is under consideration. |
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