Kerala to complete classroom digitalisation soon

KOCHI: The ambitious programme of digitalising government school classrooms is fast nearing completion and the declaration in this regard will take place ater two months, according to Minister for Education Professor C. Raveendranath.

“By October, Kerala will become the first state to achieve digitalisation in the education sector in the country. The government aims to ensure that students from all strata of society get an opportunity to study with the help of modern facilities.

“The state government has implemented the general education protection mission to ensure free and comprehensive education,” Raveendranath said while addressing a function at Kanjiramatam St Ignatius Higher Secondary School on Friday.

According to him, by making classrooms hitech, the government aims to connect students with the world and to help them keep up with changes happening all around them.

Besides, making the classrooms hi-tech, the Education Department also plans to implement the Drug-free Campus project with people’s participation. The minister said a healthy generation can be built only with the help of a syllabus that prompts students to develop their talents.

According to the minister, it has become very important to discuss the merits and demerits of public and private systems of education. “To sustain higher secondary system, it is necessary to continue with the present system of education that is being implemented by the government directly in Classes I to XII.

“A country can be termed developed only when people become beacons of knowledge,” he said.

The minister said syllabuses can’t be prepared at the whims and fancies of anybody. “They are to be prepared scientifically. School syllabus in the state has been prepared scientifically,” said Raveendranath.

Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) is in charge of turning school classrooms into hi-tech learning places, by distributing laptops, projectors, mounting kits and USB speakers. This was done as a part of the government’s mission programme for the protection of general education in the state.

The government project has also provided broadband facilities to the high schools and educational institutions.

KITE has also set up a resource portal known as Samagra e resouce Portal where the teachers can be trained to teach in the newly developed hi-tech classrooms effectively.