Friday, 23 March 2012

Virtual classrooms for 400 more schools

The BMC has proposed a substantial increase in the budgetary provision for education for 2012-13; it has lined up Rs 367.01 crore compared with Rs 169.27 crore last year. The BMC claims that it had introduced the system of learning via a virtual classroom project in 80 secondary schools this year, by beaming lectures through satellite transmission last year. 

There is a proposal to extend it to an additional 400 schools; Rs 8 crore provision has been made for secondary schools and Rs 20 crore for primary. So far, libraries have been set up in 75 primary schools. The BMC has proposed to start libraries from its own fund in the remaining 278 school buildings and made a provision of Rs 4.93 crore. It has also made a provision of Rs 300 crore for repairs of 77 school buildings in 2012-13.

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