People’s campaign to provide smartphones for all students

New fund will be set up under CMDRF, says Pinarayi

The government is launching a people’s campaign to ensure digital equipment for all students, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said. He said the government was trying to ensure that all children could participate in the classes independently. For this, all children needed digital equipment, like textbooks. The first step towards this was to record how many students in each school had digital equipment and how many required it. This had been entrusted to school committees led by parent-teacher associations (PTA). This information would be collated at the local body and district level. The number of students in need of equipment would be uploaded on a portal developed as part of the campaign to ensure digital education. On the basis of the information, equipment or money could be contributed. Corporate social responsibility funds could be used for this. The portal would also have the facility to submit projects for utilising CSR funds. PTAs could prepare projects using the portal.