YS Jagan interacts with students in AP’s digital classrooms, first in country’s govt schools

KROSURU, Palnadu District: Setting a benchmark for new-age learning, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy launched the Interactive Flat Panels (IFPs) on Monday thereby becoming the first state in India to introduce digital classrooms in government schools.

YS Jagan paid a visit to a model school in Krosuru in Palnadu district to spend quality time with students on the first day of the academic year. During the launch of IFPs, the Chief Minister sat on classroom benches along with students and shared with them his wise counsel. He wrote ‘All the Best’ on the IFP display board amidst thunderous applause from students, faculty and officials.

One of the girl students then recorded a video with the chief minister on her tab. This prompted the boys to take a selfie with him. YS Jagan then keenly checked the quality of bags. One of the students showed the bilingual textbook and the CM flipped through the pages. Not to disappoint the backbenchers, the Chief Minister went up to the end of the classroom and greeted the students on either side.

What is the IFP?

About 10,000 classrooms across the state will be using IFPs to teach students. This will be beefed up to 15,750 schools in the first phase of Nadu-Nedu by July 12. 16,000 schools will be equipped with IFP by December in the second phase of the programme.

43.10 Lakh Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Kits distributed

Apart from the IFPs, the state also launched the distribution of Jagananna Vidya Kanuka kits which would be distributed to 43,10,165 students across the state. Each kit costs Rs 2,400 which will benefit children studying in classes 1-10. While announcing the distribution of the kits, the Chief Minister stated that the YSRCP govt had spent Rs 1,042 crore for procuring Vidya Kanuka Kits this year and a whopping Rs 3,366 crore over the last four years.

Content of Kits

The kit comprises bilingual textbooks with English and Telugu content, notebooks, workbooks, three pairs of uniforms with stitching charges, a pair of shoes and two pairs of socks, belt and a schoolbag along with Oxford English-Telugu dictionary for students of classes 6 to 10 and pictorial dictionary for students of classes 1 to 5. 

The students can return the kits given to them to the school headmaster if there are any deficiencies. Those kits will replaced within one week. A toll-free number, 14417, has also been established for the convenience of registering grievances, if any, with regard to the kits. 

Earlier, while addressing the public meeting, the Chief Minister said that the Government had introduced these revolutionary changes in the educational sector to ensure that each family in the state produced engineers, doctors, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, software CEOs and leaders. The kits were handed over to the students on the day of reopening of schools after a four-stage scrutiny by the Quality Council of India.