The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Teacher training facility

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Tuesday, Mar 29, 2005

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Teacher training facility

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, MARCH 28 . Ravi Venkatesan, chairman, Microsoft Corporation (India), today said the company was keen on launching a teacher training facility here so that teachers could adopt the best techniques in imparting the knowledge and practice of information technology to school students.

Mr. Venkatesan, who called on Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat, brought to her notice the efforts made by Microsoft to bring out a Tamil language software to facilitate widespread use of personal computers. He explained Microsoft's plan to popularise an affordable PC with popular software in Tamil.

Ms. Jayalalithaa said the proposal to launch the teacher-training facility could be taken forward so that IT education was made more popular in schools.

She highlighted the Government's efforts to implement the Rural Access to Services through the Internet (RASI) by which people in rural areas could access important information regularly.

Mr. Venkatesan was accompanied by a four-member delegation of Microsoft Corporation (India).

The Chief Secretary, Lakshmi Pranesh, and N. Narayanan, Development Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Finance), were present.

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