Bengaluru: Jhansi B, preparing a 10th grade board, struggling to attend the school online class because he did not have a smartphone and did not have access to the internet.
His father, a car driver, found it difficult to meet the needs during the second wave of Covid-19 and could not buy him a smartphone.
Like Jhansi, 15, some students suffer from Digital Divide.
Pramod Srinivas, 29, founder of the Youth Nonprofit Organization Rashtriya Yuva Prathishty (RYP), decided to help Jhansi and 20 other students up to 16 years in the Dhobi area of ​​Ghat in Padmanabhanagar by giving them a free tablet.
He also organizes existing community halls for children where they can comfortably attend online classes every day.
NGOs plan to increase the number of recipient students in the near future.
Pramod said he was always disturbed by a digital gap and when he found the Toi ‘1 report from 3 students in Karnataka did not have internet access’ (July 202), he decided to do something about it.
“This motivates me to get tabs for children,” he said.
“I took permission from the Hall Authority to make arrangements,” he said, adding them to sound a teacher to clarify the doubts of children.
The organization pays the teacher of Rs 10,000 every month, he said.
“The teacher provides free school money to children in all subjects depending on their curriculum,” he added.