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Chief Minister Interacts With Teachers and Students on Teachers’ Day
Chief Minister Smt. Vasundhara Raje expressed her respect to the teaching community by establishing a direct communication with them and their pupils on the occasion of Teachers’ Day on Monday.
Jaipur – September 5, 2016
Chief Minister Smt. Vasundhara Raje expressed her respect to the teaching community by establishing a direct communication with them and their pupils on the occasion of Teachers' Day on Monday. She launched 12 Digital Learning Solution Rooms (DLSR) at different government institutes for an innovative initiative of promoting digital learning of teachers.
During the function for launch of these digital rooms, to be operated by CISCO, in the campus of Rajasthan State Textbooks Board at Jhalana Dungari, Smt. Raje interacted with the teachers, students, public representatives and officials at 12 locations in the state through Connected Learning Setup of CISCO.
The CM said that innovations and reforms in education sector had started yielding good results. These historical changes would make Rajasthan a leading state in revolutionizing education sector. The DLSR had started functioning at Jaipur, Ajmer, Baran, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Churu, Jhalawar, Jodhpur, Kota, Pali, Udaipur and Goner(Jaipur). During this, she also launched Project 'Utkarsh' at Pali for the government school students to learn latest educational technology.
Shri Dinesh Malkani, President CISCO India and SAARC, while talking to the CM announced for providing free wifi facility at 8 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in the state. Smt. Raje also chatted with the students from remote areas of state and asked them about their studies and future plans. Girl students from Baran, Ajmer, Jhalawar, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Pali and Kota expressed their views with excitement and stated that they wished to be engineers, doctors, judge, IAS etc. When one girl said that she wanted to be politician like Smt. Raje, the CM laughed and wished her 'good luck' for a bright future.
The Chief Minister suggested the Collectors and school authorities to install pictures of good excellent teachers in their schools, so that the students could take inspirations and pay respect to them. She further asked for white washing and sanitization of all schools with the help of local community and putting mirror at the school entrance for the students and staff to have a look at their appearance before they enter the campus. She said that sanitary towel wending machines should be placed at the schools for the use of adolescent girls further adding that sports and yoga activities should also be practiced in the school campuses.
Image Courtesy: DIPR, CM’s Office, Rajasthan