5K tablets provided to 310 Govt schools
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, October 20 2022:
With the stated objective to provide digital learning platform to government school students of the state, Samagra Shiksha, Manipur distributed 5000 tablets to 310 government secondary schools of Manipur under the State Wide integrated Education Management System (SWIEMS).
The distribution programme held on Thursday at State Project Office conference hall, Babupara was attended by education minister Th Basanta Singh as chief guest, Education(S)/State Project director L Nandakumar Singh as president, and chief financial officer Hitesh Arora and Hitachi MGRM Net president Deepak Mittal as guests of honour.
In his speech, minister Basanta stressed on the importance of digitalized mode of learning in government schools in order to keep pace with private schools of the state and outside the state as well.
According to director L Nandakumar, students' data, teachers/staff attendance can be monitored in real time through the tablets distributed.
Biometric attendance of the teachers will also be introduced in this system which will help enhance the efficiency of the teachers and improve administration, he said.