Tamil Nadu college students to get free data card for online classes till April
Press Trust of India | January 11, 2021 | 10:21 AM IST | 1 min read
As many as 9,69,047 students studying in government and aided Arts and Sciences colleges, engineering colleges and polytechnic institutions will benefit from the move.
CHENNAI : The Tamil Nadu government will provide free data card of 2 GB per day capacity to over 9.69 lakh college students to enable them to attend online classes till April this year, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said here on Sunday.
The move was being effected since the colleges have remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and were conducting online classes, he said in a statement.
As many as 9,69,047 students studying in government and aided Arts and Sciences colleges, engineering colleges and polytechnic institutions will benefit from the move, where data cards will be given to them from January to April 2021 free of cost, he said.
Students in self-financed institutions will also be covered under the initiative, which will be implemented through the state-run Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), the chief minister said.
Also read:
- Teachers’ unions oppose Visva Bharati professor’s suspension
-
Maharashtra to take decision on reopening colleges by Jan 20
Write to us at news@careers360.com .
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.
Quick Watch
]Featured News
]- Over 1,000 KGBVs without functioning ICT labs; over 400 KVs are short of computers: Education ministry data
- Beyond Textbooks: How simulation labs in Tamil Nadu medical colleges are reshaping MBBS training
- West Bengal schools plan to reduce teaching days, adopt ‘weekly rosters’ as Census worsens teacher shortage
- ‘Affects 200’: CUET PG candidates question TISS’ normalisation formula; ‘ensures fairness,’ says institute
- VBSA Bill: Exemption to IITs ‘not desirable’; scrap deemed-university tag, plan separate funding, says panel
- ‘At Regulatory Crossroads’: Psychology courses caught in UGC, NCAHP, RCI tangle, causing confusion
- NMC drafts rules to sideline states on medical college approvals, gets tougher on infrastructure norms
- SRM Medical College bets on AI, interdisciplinary learning to make students tech-savvy, research-driven: Dean
- From IIT Madras to Kharagpur: Why top engineering colleges are now teaching biomedical sciences
- VBSA Bill: Joint Parliamentary Committee to finalise, adopt draft report on July 17