Edusat scheme for schools in tribal Madhya Pradesh
Apr 21, 2007 - 6:44:22 PM
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The scheme envisages providing an Internet and a dish TV connection in selected high and higher secondary schools in rural areas. These would be connected to the Edusat facility at the Madhya Pradesh Bhoj - University.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] Bhopal, April 21 - The Madhya Pradesh government is planning to launch the Edusat scheme to improve quality of instruction and capacity building in schools in the state's tribal districts.
The state tribal welfare department plans to introduce the central government scheme in 50 schools of 19 tribal districts in establishing teaching aid and 50 satellite interactive terminals - in the state on a budget of Rs. 16 million, officials said.
Edusat is the first Indian satellite designed and developed exclusively for serving the educational sector. Established by Indian Space Research Organisation -, it provides virtual classroom through satellite linkage.
'Edusat would be utilised by tribal welfare, higher education and state education centre jointly,' Edusat co-ordinator Pratibha Rajgopalan said here Friday.
The SIT terminals, Rajgopalan said, would facilitate transmission of audio visual from both the ends and students would be able to get quality education by subject specialists. Also, training could be imparted to the teachers through this advance system.
'It would help to spread quality education to schools in rural areas and reduce the dearth of good teachers,' School Education Minister Narottam Mishra said Friday.
'However, the objective is not only to make up for the dearth of good teachers but also to develop excellence, capacity building and an academic atmosphere throughout the state,' he added.
Necessary equipment to establish SIT would be brought from Bangalore and Rs.20,000 for each terminal has been allocated to the district collectors,' said J.J. Prabhakar, the deputy commissioner of education training, tribal development department.
Besides, from July, the state government plans to reach out to the students in rural areas through the Information Technology Enabled Learning Laboratory -, which will make use of Edusat.
'The ITELL scheme costing Rs.50 million has been approved by the state planning board and a provision of Rs.10 million is being made in the state budget for the 2007-08 fiscal,' said an official source.
The scheme envisages providing an Internet and a dish TV connection in selected high and higher secondary schools in rural areas. These would be connected to the Edusat facility at the Madhya Pradesh Bhoj - University.
A complete set-up at each school, costing Rs.600,000 each, will entail a big room, five computers, a dish TV and also a generator to meet power requirements, the source added.
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