The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated a modern laboratory complex at Government Girls Inter College (GGIC) Rajpur Road here on Thursday. Addressing the programme organised on the occasion, the CM said that these laboratories would remain open for students for 12 hours a day. He informed that the lab complex has started on an experimental basis in the school and more such state of the art laboratories would also be set up in some other schools having high student strength.
The CM told the students that the engineers of IIT Mumbai have developed an online device named K-Yan through which students in hundreds of schools could be provided online teaching. He added that K-Yandevice has been installed at Government Pre-Secondary School, Dehra on Rajpur Road and soon the device would be installed in other schools also. Rawat claimed that State Government is making efforts for the qualitative improvement in the education sector. He informed that with one teacher for every 12 students, Uttarakhand is much better placed as compared to other states.
The CM added that with setting up of this lab, the students would understand science and experimental aspects of the technique in a better way. The laboratory campus having equipments for Physics, Chemistry and Biology has been set up by Rodic Consultancy Private limited under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
Speaking on the occasion, the Education minister Arvind Pandey said that to strengthen the schools, contribution from everyone is very important. He said that along with their responsibility to make the future of the students bright, the teachers would also have to contribute socially.
The Director General (DG) School Education Captain Alok Shekhar Tiwari, the Chief Executive Officer (CSO) of Rodic Consultancy Private limited Major General Neeraj Bali (Rtd), Director State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) Seema Jaunsari and staff and students of GGIC Rajpur Road were present.