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Bareilly: As many as 154 primary schools and 39 upper primary schools in Bhojipura block of Bareilly district have an e-library each and with this, officials claim, Bhojipura has become the first block in the state to use digital library for teaching students.For setting up e-library, a 21-member team had compiled videos related to different topics and chapters and generated their QR codes. While discussing a topic, a teacher will have to scan the QR code to play a related video. Teachers at these government schools show videos to students on their laptops, mobile phones and projectors.Babita Singh, block education officer, Bhojipura, said, “If a teacher searches for any informative and animated videos of a certain topic on internet, score of options comes up. As students find videos interesting, the average daily attendance, too, has improved from 60% to 80%. So, we run special classes for students who are irregular and show them videos for easy and better understanding of missed chapters.”.