DO NOT FORGET SOCIAL LIFE, SPORT IN RACE TO LEARN TECHNOLOGY, PM TELLS KIDS IN GUJ
AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday kicked off his three-day visit to Gujarat by interacting with teachers and students, and urged them to stay “motivated” towards the use of technology, but not forget to engage with sport and social life.
“Children should be motivated towards this (technology)... but then, it should not be so that everything is online and nothing is offline. How will (a child) know online whether the ‘jaggery’ is sweet unless he tastes it? For that he will have to consume it in reality. Sport, social life are other such things that should not be forgotten,” Modi said, during his visit to the Vidya Samiksha Kendra, a Command and Control Centre for Schools in Gandhinagar.
The centre, deemed a global best practice by the World Bank, is central to Gujarat government’s ₹10,000 crore ‘Mission Schools of Excellence’ project over the next five years. The World Bank has sanctioned ₹750 million for the project.
The Schools of Excellence project is aimed to benefit all the 35,133 government schools and 5,847 grant-in-aid schools in the next five years in Gujarat. “World-class infrastructural facilities and educational facilities will be provided to make 20,000 of these schools excellent,” said a government official.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to lay the foundation stone for a string of projects at Banas Dairy Sankul in Diyodar, Banaskantha on Tuesday. He will also lay the foundation stone of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, officials familiar with the matter said.