Guwahati News Desk: During the budget session 2021-22, the government of Assam have decided to provide smartphones to class IX and X for education purpose announced on Friday.
The decision was taken to minimize the leaning loans and bridge the digital divide which will mitigate learning losses in respect of these underprivileged students.
Over 8 lakh students of class IX and X to get benefit from this scheme.
This will act as a positive reinforcement for continuity of education and will also act as a deterrent against the dropout rate in schools.
It will also help out those students to attend online lectures and classes during the impossible hard days of the pandemic as students will equally keep update with the syllabus to get better scores in the examination.
Many underprivileged students had faced learning problems due to not having a smartphones for digital studies which were made mandatory during the rising cases of COVID-19 as since 2020 all schools were shut down for maximum days.
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