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20 tsunami hit hamlets to be covered under ICT programme

Pondicherry: The Pondicherry Multipurpose Social Service Society (PMSSS) has taken measures for connectivity with the help of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to cover 20 hamlets affected by the December 2004 tsunami in Pondicherry, Cuddalore and Karaikal regions. Rev.Fr.R. Ratchagar, the Executive Director of the PMSSS, a non- governmental organisation based at Pondicherry, said in a release here on Thursday. He said the ICT facility was funded by the U.S. based Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Twenty information centres in each of the villages had been set up through the initiative of Stephen, the coordinator of the programme, with necessary infrastructure like computer, scanner, public address system and telephone connection with broad band facility. The arrangement would enable the local people to know daily weather forecasts, nature of the tides, wind speed and temperature three times a day through the public adders system. Fr. Ratchagar said that soon e-marketing, e-governance, tele-medicine, e-tuition, e-agriculture and education and video conference would be introduced.

Children coming in the age group of 3-5 years would be given joyful learning with the help of laptops. As a first step, children attached to an anganwadi centre at Devanampattinam in Cuddalore district were taught English alphabets and letter formation.

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