Thiruvananthapuram: A survey conducted by the IT@School project has come up with an assessment that the state could convert class rooms of standard VIII to X of high schools into high-tech ones by the first term of the next academic year. The assessment is that the schools had the required infrastructure to upgrade all high school classes in the state to high tech class rooms, IT@School project executive director Anvar Sadath told DC. The survey has ascertained the immediate as well as the long-term infrastructure needed of each school to upgrade class rooms into high-tech class rooms, he said.
Finance minister Dr T. M. Thomas Isaac had announced that all classrooms from VIII to X in the state will be upgraded before Onam. Dr Isaac had also said that four select schools in different assembly constituencies would be made high tech by the end of this month. The classrooms would be made high tech under the General Education Protection Mission. The mission was announced as part of the Nava Kerala Mission announced on November 1, the 60th anniversary of Kerala formation.
The IT@School project has been entrusted the responsibility of forming a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to oversee the programme on hi tech class room. The implementation of the project has already commenced in September 2016. It was piloted in Alappuzha, Puthukad, Kozhikode North and Thaliparamba assembly constituencies. As part of the action plan, classes in at least five schools in each district will be upgraded. Higher secondary classes would be converted to high tech classes in the second phase.
