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Akshaya training programme from Friday

Staff Reporter

One member of each family to be made cyber-literate

Kozhikode: Public Works Minister M.K. Muneer will inaugurate a training programme of the ambitious Akshaya project, aimed at making at least a member of a family cyber-literate in the district, on Friday.

The official programme will be held at Ulyeri grama panchayat. A meeting of entrepreneurs and officials associated with the e-literacy campaign was held here on Monday to review the steps so far taken for the implementation of the project, Akshaya State coordinator T.K. Manzoor said.

Kozhikode will have 176 centres with Kozhikode corporation having 10, Koyilandy municipality seven and Vadakara municipality five. The 77 grama panchayats in the district will have two centres each.

Some of these centres have already started functioning, he said.

The total cost for implementing the project in the district is Rs.4.6 crores. Each centre will have five systems for the e-literacy training programme.

The project will be beneficial for 5,83,264 households in the district. One member of a family will be trained for an hour and a half daily for 10 days. The fee for a person is Rs.120. The learner has to remit Rs.40 while the grama panchayat will contribute Rs.60 and block panchayat and district panchayat Rs.10 each.

The training programme for the learners has been prepared after taking into consideration the suggestions of neo-computer literates of Malappuram district and incorporating the views of experts in the field of Information Technology.

Training programme for trainers and entrepreneurs and household surveys for selecting the target groups have already been completed in the district. Assistance of the C-DIT, IT@School and CDS was sought in conducting the classes on managerial skills and other technicalities in maintaining the e-centres.

An exhibition was conducted for the entrepreneurs recently to familiarise them with the suite of software and hardware needed for training the learners. Computer system and its peripherals were available for cheaper rates than in open market.

Major software and hardware giants such as Intel and Microsoft participated in the exhibition. A technical session and introduction to free software were held on the occasion.

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