75% Kerala classrooms go high-tech

Thiruvananthapuram April 29 (IANS) About 75 per cent of Kerala s 45 000 classrooms in 4 775 state-owned secondary schools have been made high-tech with laptops projectors speakers and other equipment.

With the academic year beginning in June the rest of the schools will follow suit by then.

The initiative is a part of the government s Public Education Rejuvenation Mission and is being implemented by the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) a government company.

A total of 34 500 classrooms have already been provided with laptops multimedia projectors projector ceiling mounting kits USB speakers and screens besides high-speed broadband internet connectivity said KITE Vice Chairman K. Anvar Sadath.

KITE has also started training over one lakh teachers to handle the various equipment.

--IANS
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