President to give computer literacy awards

NEW DELHI: The President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam will give away the second Computer Literacy Excellence Awards for Schools-2003 at a function, which is scheduled to be held on August 4, 2004. Union Minister of Communications and IT, Dayanidhi Maran the Minister of State for Communications and IT, Dr. Shakeel Ahamad will be present on the occasion.

According to the official release, this year, a total of 56 awards — 50 state awards and 6 national awards — will be presented. The scheme has been well received through out the country and had an encouraging response from 35 states and union territories who have nominated 52 schools (27 schools have been nominated under category A and 25 under category B to compete for the national awards.

The department of IT (DIT) instituted the scheme of computer literacy excellence awards for schools in the year 2002 to encourage incremental use of information & communication technology (ICT) in the learning environment. In the first year of the scheme, 21 schools were awarded on an all India basis. The DIT widened the scope of the scheme for giving the second computer literacy excellence awards by introducing two categories for the state awards namely category A — private/government-aided and category B — government/municipal schools.

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