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| LG Mathur e-launches YounTab Scheme; Ladakh becomes 1st UT in India to provide educational tablets to school children | | |
EArly times Report
Leh, June 4: Striving to provide better educational support to the students amidst the COVID-19 pandemic where schools remain mostly closed, LG Mathur today inaugurated the YounTab scheme in a virtual event at Raj Niwas.
The scheme is an initiative of the Department of School Education with technical support by the Information Technology Department under which 12,300 tablets with pre-loaded online and offline content, including textbooks, video lectures and online class applications, would be distributed to govt school students from Class 6th to 12th. The offline content has been prepared class and subject-wise to help students in remote areas with no internet connectivity. The IT Department and NIC have developed a few applications for providing these contents loaded in these tablets to the students.
Addressing the event, LG Mathur stressed the importance of education technology in the years to come. He expressed satisfaction for having fulfilled the immediate need of the students of Ladakh. Tablets were distributed among students from remote areas during the event.
LG Mathur thanked the PM for granting UT status to Ladakh for making this possible and providing a sufficient budget for this initiative. He thanked the Education Minister for the visionary New Education Policy 2021 for providing a backbone for such technological interventions.
Addressing the internet connectivity issue, LG Mathur informed that the existing telecom companies have agreed to install additional towers. Further, UT Admin has also been in touch with the Telecommunication Department to implement NOFN in Ladakh by laying OFC up to Block level, in place of VSATs. An additional 115 towers with 1760 km of OFC cables have also been requested to ensure 100 per cent connectivity across Ladakh, informed LG Mathur. However, in the meantime, the administration is trying to implement interim options. Ladakh has become the first UT/state in India to have successfully launched the scheme. The distribution of tablets would be completed in the next two months. LG Mathur pointed out the need for substantial improvement in UT Ladakh’s education sector as per the recently published report on Sustainable Development Goals by NITI Aayog. |
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