Secretary, School Education Department (SED) Asgar Samoon Friday said that not all school children have access to the desktop or i-pad. He said the students cannot download the text books due to the slow internet speed. Samoon took to his twitter handle and announced release of Rs 2030.87 lakh to the Directorates of School Education, Kashmir and Jammu (DSEK and DSEJ) for procurement of textbooks up to class 8th in government schools.
“Kids have no ipads/no access to desktops; cant download text books as internet is slow; Rs 2030.87 lac released for 1st-8th classes; DSEJ Rs 1105.44 lac & DSEK Rs. 925.43 lac; Kashmir division has distributed the books; remaining Jammu districts-DSEJ, CEOS, ZEOS to expedite in 2 weeks,” Samoon tweeted.The statement comes at a time when the government is making tall claims of engaging school students through online education using different platforms to compensate the academic losses.The academic session 2020 has already started in Kashmir schools while as the session in Jammu division is likely to commence after the nationwide lockdown is lifted by the Government of India (GoI).
