Jaipur, The first e-learning programme of Rajasthan has been launched at Au village in Bhartapur district. The Education Minister, Mr. Kalicharan Saraf, inaugurating the programme on Tuesday, said it would help resolve the problem of paucity of teachers in schools to a large extent and it would be shortly introduced in all the schools. Au village falls in Deeg tehsil of Bharatpur district. The state government is presently functioning from Bharatpur, as all the Cabinet Ministers are camping there and the Chief Minister, Mrs. Vasundhara Raje, will also preside over a Cabinet meeting there in a few days.
Mr. Saraf said the students participating in the e-learning programme would also get an opportunity to learn computer operations and compete successfully with their counterparts in big cities. He pointed out that the programme would also lead to a significant reduction in the dropout rate of students from schools. The Lupin Human Welfare and Development Foundation, active in Bharatpur district for the last two decades, has prepared the software for the e-learning programme. Mr. Saraf said the vacant posts of teachers in the government schools would be filled up shortly, but till then the alternative arrangements of subject teachers would be made from other schools, so that the studies are not hampered. He also assured that the verandahs in front of classrooms would constructed without delay.
Former Minister and BJP leader, Dr. Digambar Singh, praised the rural development and livelihood generating programme of Lupin HW&D Foundation and said the e-learning programme was the need of the hour. He hoped that the students would get quality and useful education through the new IT-based system.
The Lupin HW&D Foundation’s Executive Director, Mr. Sita Ram Gupta, said the e-learning software had been developed by a company operating from Pune and it had uploaded the course material for first to tenth classes. Each lesson has been explained through cartoons in an interesting manner, so that the students enjoy while learning and getting new knowledge.
The e-learning programme will be introduced on a permanent basis in over 100 schools in the state this year. Mr. Gupta said 10 hi-tech machines would be purchased for checking malnutrition among children at Anganwadi centres in Kumher and tablets would be purchased for making the records of women’s self-help groups up to date.
The Commissioner, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mr. Naresh Pal Gangwar, Kumher Pradhan, Mr. Manoj Singh, BJP leader, Mr. Satyendra Singh, and large number of villagers, teachers and students were present on the occasion.
Kalyan Singh Kothari, Media Consultant, Mobile: 9414047744