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Raje plans to improve education scenario

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Initiative to make students globally competitive

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, has showcased the State Government's ambitious Rs. 218-crore Information Technology education plan, envisaged on the lines of the Jordan Education Initiative, during her ongoing visit to the U.S. Ms. Raje discussed the project's features with senior executives of CISCO at its headquarters in Santa Clara on Monday.

Ms. Raje said the project, to be named Rajasthan Education Initiative, would lay emphasis on providing quality education and make the students globally competitive. More than 2,000 schools in the State are proposed to be equipped with modern facilities through the extension of IT, as part of which computer labs will be established, courses introduced and teachers provided with training.

The second part of the venture envisages linking of schools with the proposed Knowledge Corridor project along the Jaipur-Delhi national highway.

Ms. Raje said the project would improve the education scenario through innovation, reforms, capacity building and catalysing industry. Active cooperation of community, voluntary bodies, private partners and donors will be sought for the project's implementation.

A presentation on the venture was also made at a meeting of the Jordan Education Initiative at Amman, Jordan, by the Education Minister, Ghanshyam Tiwari, on May 17 and 18 to attract the attention of the global IT giants to the State. The State is likely to get associated with the world level IT education with some of the major IT companies giving it a nod of approval.

The Chief Minister pointed out that Rajasthan had recorded the highest percentage increase in literacy rate among all the States in the country during the last decade, with the male literacy rate rising by 21.47 per cent and female literacy rate by 23.9 per cent. Besides, the male literacy rate of 76.46 per cent in the State exceeds the all India average of 75.85 per cent.

Ms. Raje said nearly all the villages in the State had been covered by primary schools, while the State Government was now opening new schools in the far-off hamlets to ensure that no child had to walk more than a kilometre to reach the school. She said the State Government was committed to providing material and resources to the Education Initiative.

Ms. Raje affirmed that private sector's participation was being encouraged for universalisation of elementary education, while free text-books had been distributed to all the children studying in the first to XII standards. All school-going children were also being provided fresh mid-day meals, she added.

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