At a time when online study has been the only option available for students owing to the Covid pandemic, only 14% of the school students inBiharhave access tocomputers.
According to the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) report released recently, less than one in five schools had working computers and only a limited number of them had Internet connection. It is even more surprising to know that 73% students in neighbouringJharkhandhave had access to computers, the report said.
The minister said the government is already seized of this problem and had, some time back, requested the central government to sanction necessary funds under Samagra Shiksha Yojana for providing necessary digital devices like smartphones and laptops to the students and install good number of computers with internet connectivity in all the schools so that our children do not suffer.