Intranet and Internet for Schools by providing IT in Education

Focus

	Providing Information & Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure.
	Training of the teachers to use ICT for imparting education.
	Providing different learning resources which include related educational
	tools, course curriculum and other learning material.

Pilot Project

	Launched in 140 schools in 7 districts - Lucknow & Allahabad (Uttar
	Pradesh), Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Kuppam
	(Andhra Pradesh), Parlivaijnath (Maharashtra) and South 24-Parganas
	(West Bengal).
	A computer lab with a Server, 10 Multimedia PCs, Network Printer, 29" Flat
	Screen Color TV, UPS and CVT set up in each of the school.
	Internet connectivity of 128 Kbps through VSAT.
	A central portal (www.vidyavahini.ernet.in) hosted.
	Course curriculum content as per CBSE standard from Class-1 to Class-12
	available on central portal.
	5 batches of teachers trained for use of computer, development of
	course curriculum.