In last phase, 4,357 students get smartphones in Amritsar

Tribune News Service
Amritsar, December 31

The last phase of distribution of smartphones and tablets launched under the Smart Connect Scheme by the state government was completed on Thursday by distributing smartphones to 4,357 students in the district.

Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh addressed the ceremony virtually and directed the education ministry to make the school education system of the state digitally updated. Today, the third and last phase of the campaign was carried out in 11 constituencies of the district covering students of 60 government senior secondary schools.

The ceremony was presided over by Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira, DEO Satinderbir Singh, DEO (Elementary) Kanwaljit Singh and NSUI president Akshay Sharma. Earlier, smartphones were distributed to 9,560 students of different schools in the district in two phases. The DEO informed that the state government had distributed smartphones and tablets to a total of 1,75,448 students across the state.

Addressing a number of schoolchildren, their parents and teachers present at the time, DC Gurpreet Singh Khaira said all these efforts would enable the students of government schools to give better results by connecting with modern technology. “Punjab was the first state in the country to successfully launch a number of new schemes, including smart school campaign for standardization of education, and launched Punjab Educare app during the pandemic,” he said.

NSUI president Akshay Sharma said these hi-tech phones would go a long way in mitigating the hardships faced by students due to break in their classroom studies.