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BSNL to introduce online tuition facility

Rajesh Nair

E-tuition will enable standard X and XII students to chat with experts

— Photo:T. Singaravelou

EFFICIENCY REWARDED: K. Sridhara, Chief General Manager, BSNL, Tamil Nadu Circle (sitting third from left) with awardees at the award function in Pondicherry on Thursday.

PONDICHERRY: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will soon introduce online tuition facility for X and XII standard students in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

Customers having BSNL's broadband connectivity could avail this facility free of cost, likely from Vijaya Dasami day, K Sridhara, Chief General Manager, Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle, Chennai said on Thursday.

Mr. Sridhara gave away Sanchar Seva Padak and Bharat Sanchar Sarathy Awards to BSNL employees belonging to the Pondicherry Telecom District. Later, speaking to The Hindu , he explained that the facility would first be offered to students of State Board syllabus. A decision to offer the facility in other streams would be taken later.

Once launched, e-tuition would cover all the subjects in the X standard, while it would be restricted to Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology subjects in the XII standard.

He said that expert tutors would be drawn from different streams to conduct classes for one hour, during evenings, on each day. Students could also chat with experts in subjects. There would no extra charge for the online tuition facility, he added.

He informed that this was only one of the new schemes planned to increase the broadband subscriber base in the region. At present, it had 30,000 subscribers and BSNL hoped to increase the subscriber base to one lakh with the introduction of the new scheme.

New scheme

He also said that in the next few weeks, new schemes for pre-paid cellular subscribers would be introduced.

"The pricing would be highly competitive for some schemes. Special schemes, with attractive SMS features targeting the students, would be the highlight," he noted. Ten per cent of the exchanges in the region had achieved zero fault and by next year another 600 exchanges would be geared to achieve the zero fault, he pointed out.

Earlier, along with T.S Kuppuswamy, Prinicipal General Manager, Operations, Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle, Mr. Sridhara distributed the awards.

Speaking on the occasion R. Marshal Antony Leo, General Manager, BSNL, Pondicherry said customer care centres would be opened in all telephone exchanges under its jurisdiction after a review of three centres that were opened recently.

Also, 15 more DTS would be commissioned in the next two months for giving more mobile connections, he further said.

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