Minister sets April date for scheme launch

IMPHAL, Mar 28: Educa-tion Minister L Jayanta- kumar today announced
that under the One Laptop Per Child Project, students of selected
schools would be provided laptops start-ing from April this year.
The Minister was speaking at the occasion of distri- buting prizes to
the winners of 6th State Level Mathematics and Science Com- petition,
2009 at DM College of Science here today. The function was organised
under the aegis of Social Deve- lopment and Reformation Society,
Pourabi.
Jayantakumar, who was the chief guest of the function, further
observed that organising more and more mathematics and science
competition at the State level would be helpful to the students.
The Minister said that in the eyes of the Government, there is no
difference between the private schools or the Government schools.
Providing proper education to the students in time is the primary
objective of the Go-vernment. So for the first phase of the One Laptop
Per Child Project which is to be taken up as a pilot project for the
first time in Manipur by the School Education Department, students in
the selected schools would be provided laptops with effect from April
this year. The laptops would be compulsorily given to all the stu-
dents in model schools of the Government.
The Minister, however, did not elaborated on the number of students
and the schools that would be covered under the first phase of the One
Laptop Per Child project.
Maintaining that school education is very essential for the
personality development of any person, the Minister explained that if
all the students can get proper education, we can expected to have a
developed society. Lack of education and knowledge has led to numerous
problems in the society, he added.
MLA Th Lokeshore presided over the function.(TSE)