THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With colleges working on an electronic platform in the aftermath of this pandemic, the government has chosen to guarantee net connectivity at 756 tribal hamlets, in which there’s either no entrance or partial entrance.
As stated by the information technology section, at 493 tribal hamlets are devoid of almost any policy.
The hamlets with no or partial connectivity are dispersed across the country, but in the district of Alappuzha.
As a direct intervention, the IT division on Thursday declared Rs 5 lakh in the capital of the district egovernance societies to every one of the district collectors because of ensuring high-speed online connectivity in these areas.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had convened an assembly with telecom providers around June 10, where the subject has been mentioned in detail, and it had been determined to guarantee accessibility to interactive courses to the student community via high-speed online connectivity, despite the rural-urban split.
“The IT division has devised short-term and long term strategies for ensuring community connectivity,” a senior official with the division stated.
As a short term step, the government is currently investigating the prospect of ensuring connectivity via the sticks of Kerala state power board restricted (KSEBL), with the support of local providers.
District collectors also have been requested to explore the choice of’policy on brakes’ system containing cellular units of community towers which were utilized in Wayanad throughout the flooding.
The collectors also have been requested to guarantee permanent system approaches from erecting towers by draining pending proposals of exactly the same in the slightest.
The government has mapped four kinds of connectivity problems namely lack of apparatus, absence of community connectivity, slow system speed and also the costs of information recharge.
The government has joined hands with many organisations and agencies for supplying devices for people in need, however the absence of community in certain regions has been denying fair use of virtual classrooms, especially in tribal areas.