Question: Recently, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarai Vijayan inaugurated the Samagra Sansadhan portal and mobile app. What is not true in this regard?
(a) It was inaugurated on May 31, 2018.
(b) More than 40,000 classrooms will be made hi-tech through this portal and mobile app by June 2018.
(c) This portal and mobile app have been developed by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education.
(d) Guidelines have been issued to the educational directors to ensure the utilization of the overall resource portal in 55,000 classrooms by the state government.
Answer- (d)
Related Facts:
- On May 31, 2018, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarai Vijayan inaugurated the Samagra Sansadhan portal and mobile app.
- Over 40,000 classrooms are set to go hi-tech across the state by June this year with the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education developing a portal and its mobile app for the purpose.
- For this purpose, this portal and mobile app have been developed by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education.
- The state government has issued an order directing educational directors to ensure proper use of the Samagra Resource Portal in 45,000 classrooms.
- It also contains over 19,000 digital resources in the form of videos, audios, pictures, interactive simulations, which can be sorted class and subject wise.
- Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) has already provided specific training in Samagra to 74,000 teachers during this summer vacation.
- Under a state government initiative- IT@School Project– that aims to impart IT education to schools, it was decided to digitise 45,000 classrooms in Kerala and make them hi-tech.
- The project envisages a comprehensive up gradation of various elements of classroom learning such as infrastructure, textbooks, learning materials, teacher training, handbooks, monitoring and evaluation, and e-governance using ICT.
- According to K Anvar Sadath, Vice Chairman and Executive Director, KITE, 34,500 schools have been made hi-tech and the rest are expected to be upgraded by June end.
- The first phase would cover classes 8 to 12 and the second phase from 1 to 7.