To provide quality education to the students especially in the remote areas, Punjab Government will establish 1073 more Edusat Computer labs in the schools.
Stating this, Punjab Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka said 1016 Edusat classrooms have already been established with 516 Satellite Interaction Terminals (SITs) and 500 Receive Only Terminal (ROTs) in various Government secondary schools in the State. And, 1073 more Edusat Computer labs would be established in the remaining schools to enhance teaching and learning process.
The Minister said that 2807 more ROTs would be provided in Government schools in the next phase. As many as 2600 ROTS started functioning and senior secondary and high schools would be covered under this network.
He said a special program of career counseling/health program would also be conducted every week on Saturday in the schools. New program ‘meet a scientist’ has also been started by Edusat in which scientists from Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) interacts with the students studying in Government schools through this Edusat system.
Minister further said that various incentive programs would also be started like tele-teaching to create awareness and interest toward the science subjects amongst the students of Government schools. IISER suggested that a laboratory under Punjab Edusat could be set up where the student could do experiments at their own level.
Expressing satisfaction over the EDUSAT system providing tele-teaching in these government schools, Education Minister said the Punjab EDUSAT Society had provided free coaching tele services to XIIth students of medical and non-medical streams for competitive examination who were unable to pay unaffordable fees of private coaching centers. He also said that above 13000 students of XIIth participated in the crash course and result was 82% in Government and aided schools in the State.