Yogi government to provide 10 inch tablets to students

Virendra Singh Rawat

Lucknow / Dec 22, 2020

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to procure 10 inch advanced tablet computers for promoting digital learning in select state government run colleges.

In the first phase, 18 government colleges in the seven aspirational districts would be provided with 160 preloaded e-learning tablets, which would be issued to their students just like books from the respective libraries.

The decision to procure tablet computers was taken to promote digital learning during the current pandemic period and to equip the students in the comparatively backward aspirational districts of the state with modern learning technologies and gadgets.

The seven districts comprise Fatehpur, Sonbhadra, Chandauli, Shravasti, Siddharthnagar, Balrampur and Chitrakoot, according to UP deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma. He said the New Education Policy laid emphasis on the usage of modern technology and integration of education for creating a knowledge-based economy.

Meanwhile, UP additional chief secretary, higher education department, Monika S Garg said each of the 18 government colleges in the current 2020-21 financial year would be given 8-9 tablet computers each after loading them with academic and other educational content.