Odisha government to provide free Wi-Fi in public universities
Press Trust of India | November 2, 2023 | 05:11 PM IST | 1 min read
Higher education special secretary Ramakanta Nayak asked registrars of all state-run universities to furnish estimates of Wi-Fi installation facilities on the campuses.
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha government has decided to provide free Wi-Fi on the campuses of all state-run universities so that students can easily access online study materials and e-books. Higher education department special secretary Ramakanta Nayak has asked registrars of all state-run universities to furnish detailed estimates for installation of Wi-Fi facilities on the campuses. "The Odisha government intends to provide free Wi-Fi for students on university campuses as most of the study materials are now-a-days available online," he wrote in a letter to all registrars on Wednesday. While Utkal University and Rama Devi Women’s University here have been providing free Wi-Fi on the campuses, the latest move will benefit students of other universities. Providing free Wi-Fi and 1GB data for students in all colleges and universities was promised by the ruling BJD in its election manifesto ahead of the 2019 assembly and general elections.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Featured News
]- Promised, but missing: Five years on, National Digital University reduced to a budget item, with no funds
- Amravati University drops Marathi novel on Covid lockdown from syllabus; ‘targeting literature,’ says author
- JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over
- Students in University of Aberdeen, Mumbai, get credential exactly the same they’d get in Scotland: COO
- ‘IIMC to upgrade all journalism and mass communication courses to MA degrees, phase out PG diplomas’: VC
- Rebuilding Calcutta University: VC Ashutosh Ghosh’s priorities are recruitment, fixing finances, reforms
- PARAKH’s Foundational Learning Study 2026 to cover 1 lakh Class 3 students across 10,000 schools
- Telangana: Government Degree College Vikarabad moves out of school and into DIET campus
- ‘Shouldn’t open universities like shops’: Odisha higher education expands but students rue plummeting quality
- Dual degrees, faculty exchange: States bet on foreign university tie-ups, but fine print tells another story