Rajasthan Government to Focus on Computer Literacy

When the world is shrinking to a digital platform, Rajasthan government is not to lag behind. The state government has now requested the Centre to assist in computer training of over 52,000 teachers. The measure has been taken to make the entire state computer literate and thus making it s project of computer literacy a a big success.

Vasudev Devnani, school education minister of the state has informed that in order to make education computer based, Internet will be availed to schools and teachers.

He further said that the recommendations regarding the training of teachers have been sent to the centre. To quote him, “Computers are necessary for today’s education and we are going to introduce at least one computer teacher in every school in the state.”

“Under the Rajasthan Knowledge Corporation, more than 52,000 teachers have registered themselves for computer training and 90% data of schools in the state have been fed online to create a database of schooling in the state.”

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As of the current data by District Information for School Education, as low as 28.60% schools in the state are tech savvy and have access to computers. However, this stats might look good when compared to that of primary schools. Only 5.29% of primary schools in the state have an access to computers, while it is 31.37% in secondary schools.

Providing another solution to lack of computer education in the state was Rajendra Yadav, Director of SPC education centre, an NGO that provides computer education to the poor. He said that decentralization of the policy can prove instrumental in encouraging use of computers.

“The intention of the government is noble as computer education has become necessary but… there is a need for proper planning and understanding of the need of the students in the rural areas…,” he said.

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