Govt. encouraging children from remote locations with latest gadgets and tools in schools: Collector

Collector Asha Ajith distributes virtual reality and augmented reality kits to school headmasters, emphasizing the importance of modern tools in education.

Collector Asha Ajith distributed virtual reality and augmented reality kits to 60 school headmasters and headmistress at a function organised by ARTA foundation here on Sunday.

She told the gathering that the Tamil Nadu government was providing numerous welfare schemes and programmes to the people in remote locations. The younger generation should make use of the opportunities and come up in life.

Appreciating ARTA foundation for providing virtual reality kits to government schools in the district, she said such participation by NGOs and enthusiastic volunteers would help the children to learn newer things with ease.

Giving access to the children to such tools would make them feel good and also encourage them to learn about them. There were smart classrooms and hi-tech laboratories In government schools now. Apart from a residential school in Pazhamalai Nagar in Sivaganga district, she said four other schools would get tool kits that would enthuse the children to be creative and think out of the box.

Sivaganga district was performing well in the public examinations and stood among the top five ranks in the State in class 10 and Plus Two. Soon, the district should aim for the first place and hoped the students would bring laurels through modern tools and other learning facilities.

ARTA founder Mageswar, Yusuka Ichikawa from Mitsuba India, Project Director (DRDA) A.R. Sivaraman, School Education Department officials were among those who participated.