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  • | Wednesday | 18th July, 2018

The education office needs to improve its planning skills,” he added.“Such a placement of screens betrays the failure in planning by PMC. “They need three years to implement the project with only 40 schools having the screen in the current academic year. Look how the students had to suffer because of the civic body’s inability to transfer the money due for school uniforms and stationery to students’ bank accounts. “Beyond having politicians and officials on the education board, educationists need to be included to help take informed decisions,” Kirdat urged. The plan is to have 800 classrooms with e-learning infrastructure up and running over the next three years.

The plan is to have 800 classrooms with e-learning infrastructure up and running over the next three years. However, in the two months since the project has been rolled out, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is struggling to find the space to install electronic screens in many of its schools, as in any typical classroom, the front is taken up by the blackboard wedged between two wall-units/cupboards. As a solution now, it has been decided to hoist the screens at the back of the classrooms, earning a lot of flak for the civic body’s ill-conceived initiative.Now, it has become apparent that glitches have surfaced in the first leg of the project’s implementation itself.In the two months gone by, only 40 schools (with approximately three classrooms each) have been covered by the project. A survey that was subsequently started, has revealed that in at least 10-12 schools (which translates to 36 classrooms) the screen will be placed at the back of the classrooms. Confirming the impasse, PMC’s education officer, Shivaji Daundkar, told Mirror, “We are facing difficulties in installing the e-learning screens with the blackboard and cupboards being immovable. We were stuck on where to install the screens. It has been finally decided to put up the screens at the back of the classrooms.”The screens were bought about five years ago, but the Rs 23-crore installation contract was given to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) only recently and the project got going in the current academic year. Yet, engineers on the job are at a loss over the placement of the screens, given that the blackboards have to be retained for use by the teachers.The decision to park them at the back of the classroom has inevitably raised many an eyebrow. “These screens were bought five years ago. Before launching into such projects, the PMC’s education board should have examined the feasibility. Now, the kids will have to keep turning their heads every hour to view the screen. This is no solution,” sneered Aba Bagul, Congress corporator from Sahakar Nagar. “They need three years to implement the project with only 40 schools having the screen in the current academic year. The education office needs to improve its planning skills,” he added.“Such a placement of screens betrays the failure in planning by PMC. This is not new for the civic body, though. It is known to bungle things up every time a new system or technology is introduced. Look how the students had to suffer because of the civic body’s inability to transfer the money due for school uniforms and stationery to students’ bank accounts. Finally parents had to collect the cash, beating the very purpose of the scheme,” pointed out Mukund Kirdat, an education activist in the city. “Beyond having politicians and officials on the education board, educationists need to be included to help take informed decisions,” Kirdat urged.

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