Thursday, 6 December 2012

Centre approved funds for ICT to 96007 schools

Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: Under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) funds are released to State Governments based on the Computer Education Plans received from the State Government. This ministry has approved coverage of 96007 Secondary and Higher Secondary schools under the Scheme till date.

A separate programme titled Computer Aided Learning (CAL) is under implementation for the Upper Primary Schools for the students in the age group 6-14 years. 99369 Upper Primary schools have been covered under CAL till date .

Under the Scheme priority is given to educationally backward blocks and areas with concentration of scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, minority and weaker sections. However, separate allocation for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe has been started under the scheme from the Financial Year 2011-12. During the current Financial Year 2012-13 a sum of Rs. 7000.00 lakhs for coverage of SC students and Rs. 3745.00 lakhs for ST Students has been earmarked separately.
During the last three years and the current year the following number of students (both urban and rural) have benefited under the scheme:
2009-10                  -           2869742
2010-11                  -           12617362
2011-12                  -           7941933
2012-13till date)      -           416333

This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in Lok  Sabha today.

http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Shownews.asp?newsid=17646

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