Tribune Information Service
Bhanu P Lohumi
Shimla, June 12
Smartphones can be distributed to meritorious college students of Class X and XII for the tutorial session 2020-21. The procurement committee has given its consent and the proposal has been despatched to the state authorities for approval.
Every telephone to price Rs 15,000
- These will likely be distributed to meritorious college students of Class X and XII for the tutorial session 2020-21.
- The price of the smartphone purchased in bulk can be Rs 15,000 per piece
- The Schooling Division has collected 3,000 mobiles beneath ‘Donate-a-mobile’ marketing campaign launched in July final yr for poor college students who can not afford smartphones.
The price of the smartphone purchased in bulk can be Rs 15,000 per piece and the mobiles can be distributed to 10,000 college students, mentioned Director Increased Schooling Amarjeet Sharma.
The Schooling Division has collected 3,000 smartphones beneath the telephone donation marketing campaign “Digital Saathi — Baccho ka Sahara, Cellphone Humara” launched in July final yr to supply cellphones to poor college students of presidency faculties who can not afford smartphones.
Through the Covid pandemic, the best way of imparting training had modified as lessons had been working on-line and mobiles or computer systems had change into a necessity. As per a tough estimate, about 10% of scholars of presidency faculties had been with out smartphones and there have been about 14,000-15,000 under poverty line (BPL) college students at present learning in Courses X and XII, who had been to be offered smartphones on a precedence.
Beneath the marketing campaign, the donors (people and company) had been invited to donate a cell phone for poor college students to make sure that their training was not hampered on account of lack of cellular and contribute to a baby’s on-line studying, mentioned State Mission Director of Samagra Shiksha Virender Sharma.
The cell phones had been offered to the needy college students on the college stage. Now, we’re again to the offline mode of training and due to this fact the initiative is just not working in marketing campaign mode however individuals interested by donating cellular can go to the Digital Saathi portal www.hpdigitalsaathi.in to provide cell phones which might be distributed to needy college students to assist in studying function, he added.
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