Audit in over 40,000 Hi-Tech school classrooms in Kerala from

A massive audit covering over two lakh students and 80,000 teachers to gauge the usage of ICT equipments and facilities provided to government schools in the state would be conducted from Monday, as part of the Hi-Tech project.

The audit, initiated by the Kerala infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) would be conducted in two phases in 4,752schools, where the project aimed at uplifting schools as Centres of Excellence, was implemented, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of KITE, K Anvar Sadath said.

Usage details would be directly collected from over 80,000 teachers and over 2 lakh students in as many as 40,083 Hi-Tech classrooms in the state, he noted.

As part of the project, KITE has facilitated Laptop, Multimedia Projector, Screen, USB Speaker, Projector Mounting Kit, HDMI Cable and Faceplate, High speed internet connectivity to each of the Hi-Tech classrooms.

Besides, the classrooms have also been provided with access to Samagra Resource Portal which provides a Digital Content Repository for classroom learning.

The State Education Department has already provided specific training to all teachers in the State on effective utilisation of the ICT equipments and Samagra portal in a Hi-Tech classroom.

The deployment of the remaining ICT components such as Multi-Function Printers, DSLR Camera, Full HD Webcam, LED Television etc to the schools as part of the Hi-Tech school project, would be completed soon, a press release said.