Shillong, Nov 24: Mawprem legislator and former Meghalaya education minister Manas Chaudhuri lamented that the fact that in India very few students get access to computer when in advanced country like the USA the children are introduced to computer when they are just two years old.
Speaking as the chief guest at the first foundation day of the Rajiv Gandhi Computer Training Center and Nursery Teachers’ Training Academy at Anthon Hall Saturday, Chaudhuri related a real time experience of seeing two years old children playing with computers during his 1998 visit to the USA. He said, “In 1998 when I visited the US I was simply amazed of seeing two years old children using computers.”
Even as Chaudhuri said that the students in India are equally talented as their counterparts in other developed countries, he rue that as they do not have access to computer they do not have the opportunity to learn and enhance their knowledge. He said, “How many schools have full-fledged computer labs equipped fully with computers.”
Saying that the accessibility to computers for poor students is a major hindrance for them to become IT literate, Chaudhuri pointed out, “To get a complete computer set cost you around not less than Rs 40,000, so how can poor students afford it.”
Underlying the importance of becoming an IT literate and also of undergoing teachers training, Chaudhuri lauded the effort made by the academy director Mona Gurung in setting up the center in Shillong and imparting both the teachers training to nursery school teachers and also providing IT education. He said the center, named aptly after late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who had pioneered the IT revolution in India when he was its prime minister, will surely provide the much need expertise to the youths of the state.
Chaudhuri later gave away the certificates to students who had completed their course in the institute in Shillong. – By Our Reporters
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