Mobile lab service launched in Punjab

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today flagged off a mobile laboratory service to help rural students learn about computers and update their knowledge of physics and chemistry.
The mobile laboratory will help students perform experiments and educate villagers about the Internet, Badal said.
Teachers would accompany the bus to villages and will work in consultation with village Sarpanch, district education officers and school principals.
"State government will replicate this model to provide mobile bus lab services to students in government schools located in remote areas," the Chief Minister said.
State government had already embarked upon a massive programme of modernisation and upgradation facilities in higher secondary schools with a thrust to refurbish its science laboratories to help students undertake practical experiments in physics, chemistry and computer sciences, he added.