Madhyamik schools across the State would soon have hi-tech classrooms as the State Government on Tuesday announced to set up Information Communication Technology (ICT) labs in 500 schools across the State.
A meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain took the decision on Tuesday.
The facility would extend benefit to 2 lakh students. “There should be focus on enhancing learning level of the students,” the Chief Secretary said and added that there should be arrangements of evaluation after implementation of the project. He also laid emphasis on providing proper training to the teachers in IT.
He said that ICT project would be launched on the basis of boot (Built, Own, Operate, and Transfer) in the schools being operated with the help of union government for five years. The students would be made available study material related to multi media.
Apart from it, private partner would make available computer, hardware, software along with webcam, printer and UPS. Private partner has also been shouldered with the responsibility to train the teachers and to make the human resource available for operation of the project at school, district and state level.
A committee would be constituted at state level for operation of the project. The committee will comprise school principal, two parents, a student and representatives of public. A Programme Management Unit (PMU) would be set up at State level. In the first phase, the project would be implemented in the schools location along the road and those having base in the 5km long periphery of the road. In the next phase, scheme would be launched in 1,000 schools. In case of dereliction in operation of the project, provision of punishment has also been made.