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Giving students `Net' power

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Department of Education has launched a programme aimed at familiarising the Internet among about 15,000 students studying in classes eight to 12 in government schools in Malappuram district.

Each panchayat will identify up to 150 students for this 10-hour programme that will be carried out by the `Akshaya' centres run by the Kerala State IT Mission.

The `Students Net' programme was officially inaugurated by Education Minister M. A. Baby at the Edusat studio at the Gorky Bhavan here on Monday. Monday's inaugural ceremony broadcast through the State's Edusat network was watched live by students of 400 government schools in Malappuram district.

Under this scheme, each student identified for the programme will be given an e-mail ID and will be trained to use the Net effectively for academic purposes such as project work and seminars.

The IT Mission has prepared a syllabus for this training programme for which each student will have to pay Rs. 25. The IT Mission will pay the `Akshaya' centres Rs. 100 per student to meet the cost of training.

The Students Net project is actually an extension of the `Internet to the People' scheme run by Akshaya centres.

Encouraging factors

The number of schools in the district, the presence of 400-odd Akshaya centres that provide Net connectivity even to interior areas in the district and an equal number of schools with Edusat linkage and the success of the IT@School programme in the district are being seen by the Department of Education as factors that will ensure the success of this programme.

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