Higher Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey informed on Friday that 14 graduation-level government colleges of Chhattisgarh have been upgraded to post-graduation (PG) level.
A sum of Rs 3 crore has been provisioned for this in the budget of fiscal year 2016-17, he said.
The 14 colleges that have been upgraded are namely- Dr Radhabai Girls College Raipur, Badriprasad College Aarang (Raipur), Kamladevi Rathi Girls College Rajnandgaon, Mata Shabri Girls College Bhanupratappur Kanker, Maharshi Valmiki College Jagdalpur Bastar, Danteshwari College Narayanpur, Swami Atmanand College Narayanpur, JP Mishra College Mungeli, Shaheed Bapurao College Sukma, Veer Surendra Sai College Gariaband, Pt Revti Raman Mishra College Surajpur, Gundadhur College Kondagaon, larangsai College Ramanujganj and Shaheed Venkatrao College.
The State Higher Education Department is targetting to provide Wi-fi connectivity to around 106 Government colleges across the State.
The work for providing Wi-fi connectivity had already commenced in 50 college campuses.
Talking to The Pioneer, State Higher Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey had stated , “As of now, 50 Government colleges have been selected on the basis of the strength of the students and internet connection availability. It is difficult to name the colleges. We hope to cover 106 Government colleges by the end of this financial year ending in the month of March.”
Notably, Chhattisgarh Infotech and Biotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) had been assigned the task to provide Wi-fi connectivity of the 50 chosen colleges.
Vijay Chandrakar, the CHiPS Project Manager of Wi-fi City project said, “We hope to complete the project by the end of April as certain formalities from the Higher Education Department’s side are still under process.”
He further informed that the funds for implementing the project are yet to be received.
Sources claimed Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNl) and CHiPS are likely to work together on this project.
As per the announcement of Chief Minister Raman Singh, CHiPS is extensively working for making campuses of colleges and public places securely Wi-fi enabled.
Notably, in July last year, Chief Minister Raman Singh had launched ‘Wi-fi City Project’ by ensuring secured Wi-fi facility at five public places in the city. According to information received, CHiPS will soon equip Telibandha and Civic Centre, Bhilai with Wi-fi facility.