Bengaluru: With almost 20 days left for the start of the new academic year, the Karnataka government scrambles to provide internet connectivity for school students and college in the interior.
Because of the fear of the wave of the third infection that will come, the government has decided to close the school and vice versa accommodating online classes.
Estimates suggest around 38 students of elementary and secondary school students without clean connectivity.
The government held a discussion with five major telecommunications service providers in the state on Wednesday, but it produced giving up.
“At the meeting with EV Ramana Reddy, the Principal of Additional School, Information Department, Telecommunications Companies, including Airtel, Jio and BSNL, quoted great concerns over the economic feasibility of expanding the tissue tissue to cover areas that did not have access to the Internet,” said the minister of major education and secondary S suresh kumar.
Reaffirming this, officials from the TI-BT Department said telecommunications companies said the tower setting in Karnataka rural is a “expensive” affair.
In accordance with the latest data, until January 2021, there were 41,968 cell towers in the state with 60% added in the past five years.
“The biggest challenge is the correct policy (line) that runs away when it comes to Rural Karnataka,” said Meena Nagaraj, Director, the ITBT department.
“While the Urban Development Department has described plans in line with the 2016 Indian government policy, RDPR hasn’t done so.
We hope this will be completed next week.
Therefore, we also asked telecommunications companies to register their concerns.
The government will see and possibly solve it.” Country now See the “Hybrid model” class for children who do not access the internet or device.
This includes binding with civil society organizations such as the Shikshana Foundation, which is run by Technocrat Prashanth Prakash.
He was also the head of the BS Yediyurappa minister, and strategy advisor.
“Everywhere it reaches limited technology, we will use the help of civil society to ensure that there are no remaining children from the education system,” Kumar said.
“We have formed a unit of tasks consisting of civil society members to advise the government about the best approach to reaching children in remote areas.” Meanwhile, at the level of higher education, despite distributing one lakh tablet to students, lack of connectivity causes anxiety because many cannot use the device.
“We are in talks with internet service providers for special lines to certain locations such as the Panchayat Gram Office to ensure that there is an unbroken service to students,” said Deputy Minister of Chief and the Minister of Higher Education CN Ashwath Narayan.