The ambitious Technology Enabled Financial Education in Schools (TEFES) programme was inaugurated on Tuesday in Punjab through EDUSAT — a communication satellite built exclusively to serve the country’s educational sector.
Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema, who launched the programme along with State Director General School Education (DGSE) Pradeep Kumar Aggarwal, said that financial literacy has increasingly risen as a key competency and area of focus in development practice.
Cheema requested the school principals and teachers to focus on the development of financial literacy skills which is need of the hour. He also requested students to participate under the training programme imparted by the American India Foundation (AIF) as it provided innovative ways of teaching and learning in schools.
AIF is committed to catalyzing social and economic change in India and building a lasting bridge between the United States and India through high-impact interventions in education, livelihoods, public health, and leadership development with a particular emphasis on empowering girls and women to achieve gender equity.
Associated with the Punjab School Education Department since 2005, AIF is implementing its signature programme — Digital Equalizer — which is used as a platform to deliver various curriculum related subjects including Financial literacy and cleanliness issues.
Punjab School Education Department is also taking several initiatives to bring innovation in classrooms and thereby improving the learning outcomes.
Considering the critical need and overwhelming response of teachers and students about financial literacy, the American India Foundation Trust (AIFT), with the support of DEll, has agreed to conduct training for teachers and students through EDUSAT in collaboration with the Punjab School Education Department for strengthening education system in 3289 government schools.
Alongside, as part of EDUSAT initiative, AIFT is also involved in training and tracking of Students’ ICT literacy through thematic and skill based interventions in 1000, of the 3289, Government upper primary schools.