1.5 lakh students in rural Punjab to get Akash tablets

May 29, 2013 01:14

Around 1.5 lakh students in rural areas would be provided with Akash tablets from this session at a cost of Rs 110 crore, the Punjab government said today.

The government is fully committed to strengthen higher education in rural areas of the state and the education sector was a priority for the SAD-BJP government, Chief Parliamentary Secretary (Education) Inderbir Singh Bolaria said.

The tablets would be distributed with an aim to make rural students aware about the use of technology in present day education, he said. Under the previous budget, Punjab government had sanctioned 12 per cent of the whole budget to the education sector, he said.

It has initiated the process of creating a special border area cadre for teachers so as to give a big push to education in border areas, he also said.

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