Prakash Javadekar, Human Resource and Development Minister, has announced that the government plans to replace the traditional blackboard in classrooms with a digital board, over the span of the next five years.
“When it comes to education, we should invest and forget. I have told the government to let the ace educational institutions be independent as trust is very important for growth”, said Javadekar. Earlier in January, the HRD minister had also announced a resolution passed to ensure that every classroom in the country had a digital board installed in them. “Just like operation black board ensured black boards in every classroom, today resolution was passed for operation digital board, so as to ensure there is a digital board in every class in coming 5-7 years”, he had announced.
Javadekar added that the digital boards would help generate student interest and would also make teachers more accountable.
His statement came while he was addressing the first day of the 65th Central Advisory Board of Education meeting, whose prime focus was to improve the quality and accountability of school education.
The meeting was also attended by Union Ministers Thawar Chand Gehlot, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Maneka Gandhi, and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore.
While unveiling the Union Budget 2018-19 In February, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had proposed to increase the digital intensity in education and move from ‘black board’ to ‘digital board’.
