Darda for use of Aakash tablets across Maharashtra
Friday, Oct 4, 2013, 8:13 IST | Agency: DNA
Minister Rajendra Darda
Impressed by the Aakash school pilot project sponsored by the HRD ministry, minister for school education Rajendra Darda has decided to study the project site in Pandharpur and propose implementation across schools in the state.
The project aims at testing the role of Aakash tablets to improve the quality of education in a rural set-up. Students from four schools around Pandharpur were selected.
“Pandharpur was selected as the 1Mbps broadband connection provided was very conducive for the project,” said Madhavi Sawant, senior research scientist at IIT, Bombay, coordinator for the all India Aakash school project.
Sawant said the initial response to the project wasn’t too positive. “But soon students got used to the tablets and began to explore. It was an incentive for dropouts to return to school,” said Sawant.
Darda said they will evaluate the project and then put up a proposal to the CM.
The project aims at testing the role of Aakash tablets to improve the quality of education in a rural set-up. Students from four schools around Pandharpur were selected.
“Pandharpur was selected as the 1Mbps broadband connection provided was very conducive for the project,” said Madhavi Sawant, senior research scientist at IIT, Bombay, coordinator for the all India Aakash school project.
Sawant said the initial response to the project wasn’t too positive. “But soon students got used to the tablets and began to explore. It was an incentive for dropouts to return to school,” said Sawant.
Darda said they will evaluate the project and then put up a proposal to the CM.
