Launch of Pilot Project for Tab Distribution | 08 Dec 2021

Why in News

• Recently, a pilot project has been started by the Education Department of Haryana Government to distribute tabs in the schools of five districts.

Key Points

• The Haryana government has selected five districts under the pilot project, which include Gurugram, Faridabad, Jind, Ambala and Karnal.
• Under the pilot project, tabs will be distributed in government schools and 2 GB data will also be available free of cost with the tabs.
• Although this project is for the children of class 9^th to 12^th, the Haryana Education Department has given approval to give tabs only to the children of class 11^th and 12^th. For this, the government will also upload a software named 'PAHAL'.
• It is noteworthy that in Gurugram and Faridabad schools are closed due to air pollution, so it is running as a pilot project in the remaining three districts.
• Any other two districts of the state will be included as a pilot project due to closure of schools in Gurugram and Faridabad.
• It is known that the Haryana Government has also issued a tender to buy 5 lakh tabs at a cost of 560 crores.