Five more schools to get Atal labs

Gurvinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 29

More students will have access and opportunity to participate in innovative projects, as five more schools from the city have been enlisted in the second phase of the Central government’s project, where Atal Tinkering Labs under NITI Aayog would be set up.

The labs are meant to foster innovative thinking among students and give exposure of several technologies, including computers, robotics and manufacturing technologies among others to students. The labs are being set up in schools under the NITI Aayog by the Central government with a ‘vision to cultivate one million children in India as Neoteric innovators and to foster curiosity, creativity, imagination and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, physical computing and adaptive learning’.

According to information, five schools from the city have also figured in the list of 1,500 schools, where the labs would be set up now in the second phase. These schools are BCM Arya Model School, Shastri Nagar; BCM School, Sector 32; Sacred Heart Convent School, Sarabha Nagar; DAV School, BRS Nagar; and Bal Bharti School.

These labs are already functioning in some schools, including Bhartiya Vidya Mandir, Udham Singh Nagar, and Bhartiya Vidya Mandir, Kitchlu Nagar, and recently came up at Delhi Public School as their names figured during the first phase last year.

The heads of schools and teachers are excited about the names of their school figuring in the new list. “Our school is there in the list. It augurs well for students as these labs will help children in innovating further for the progress of the society,” said Dr Paramjit Kaur, Principal, BCM Arya Model School, Shastri Nagar.

Speaking about it, DP Guleria, Director, Ludhiana Sahodaya School Complex and Principal, BCM School, Sector 32, said: “This is a good initiative of the government to provide a nursery of innovation to young learners. We are all agog to carry out innovative projects along with students.”