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Laptops for all government high schools in Ernakulam

KOCHI: All the 87 government high schools in Ernakulam district have been given a laptop each to enable them to take ICT (information and communication technology) to the classrooms.

This is part of the Central government-sponsored school ICT scheme, which is being implemented by the IT@School programme of the State government by chipping in with 25 per cent of the expenditure. The laptops were given out to school authorities at a ceremony held at the IT@School regional resource centre at Edappally, recently.

High schools in the district will additionally get 102 printers, 42 generators, 67 scanners, 20 handycams and 63 computers. Together, Rs.68.12 lakh will be spent for the district schools this year under the ICT scheme. Last year, Rs.58 lakh worth of hardware, including computers and multimedia projectors had been supplied. This is the second year of the five-year ICT scheme which aims to boost IT-enabled education and thus upgrade the quality of education in government and government-aided schools.

An official pointed out that the laptops, being portable unlike the personal computers, would help computer-aided teaching in classrooms. Already, all the schools had computer labs with personal computers, but the children needed to go to the computer labs. The laptops also helped to teach subjects other than IT. For instance, ninth and tenth grade physics and maths were now being taught using laptops in classrooms in select schools in the district.

As part of extending the ICT scheme to aided high schools, higher secondary schools and vocational higher secondary schools, 231 schools in the district will have the scheme running by the end of this year. Over the remaining four years of the scheme, an additional Rs. 2.31 crore will be spent in the district for this.

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