The Adra Division of South Eastern (SE) Railway distributed PC tablets to among 46 girls of lower grade employees, a railway official said.
PC tabs were distributed among the girl students of class 11 and 12 to be competitive in today’s globalised world, said Sarad Kumar Srivastava DRM Adra Division.
“Our aim is to empower them, to make them digitally aware through education and skill development programmes,” he added. He urged the students to make the best use of the gadgets and show that they are on a par with the rest of the world. Appreciating the move Srivastava said, “Indian Railway had been implementing various welfare schemes for the wards of the lower grade employees from its Employees Welfare Fund round the year.”Under the Employees Welfare Schemes tabs were distributed among 46 girls including ten daughters of Bokaro railway employees in a simple function. Several Railway officials including G Mahato, SS Mehra, G Pureyya, S Kur, J Prasad attended.