An integrated Rs 1.84 billion plan has been evolved by the federal government to set up 1098 latest computer laboratories in schools and colleges across the country including Azad Jammu Kashmir, official sources disclosed. The sources told APP here on Thursday that the gigantic project is aimed at to promote the computer literacy program coupled with the studies in information technology in the educational institutions from primary stage to the college level.
"The process about inviting bids from the concerned parties for purchasing the equipment's has started which will be completed by the end of this year so that the computer labs could start functioning from the beginning of the next educational period," the sources said.
The sources said that the project will be launched under matching program as 30 percent of the funds will be provided by the Federal Ministry of Information Technology and whereas remaining funds will be provided by the concerned provincial governments and the government of Azad Jammu Kashmir.
Meanwhile the computer studies have been declared compulsory in all the educational institutions from grassroots to the university level in Azad Jammu Kashmir. Under the spirit to produce the quality future architects of the nation having the full education of informational technology and computers harmonious to the need of the modern era.
According to the official sources the Information Technology subject has been declared compulsory as the permanent syllabus in all the educational institutions in Azad Jammu Kashmir. The state government has also started imparting training the teaching staff of all the educational institutions in IT and computer studies by inducting Co-ordinators in all seven districts of Azad Jammu Kashmir to materialise the plan accordingly.
"Getting IT studies in all the state-run educational institutions including schools and colleges functioning in Azad Jammu Kashmir will be imperative for the students to learn computer with immediate effect, the sources said.
The sources continued that a comprehensive and broad-based plan has also been chalked out for the promotion of the studies in Information Technology under the spirit to promote and expand the latest education system in AJK harmonious to the needs of the modern age. The plan also involved various effective steps to raise the rate of literacy from primary to the University level across the liberated territory. The plan will be implemented under the phased program.
The plan, the sources indicated, was particularly aimed at to bring the AJK territory in the ranks of the other modern areas of the world where the concept of extending quality studies was being translated into reality steadfastly through extension and promotion of the I.T. studies particularly.
They said that the computer laboratories were being established in all the public sector schools as well as in Intermediate and Degree colleges under the gigantic plan for the promotion of studies in Information Technology under the speedy education uplift program across the liberated territory.
The Azad Jammu Kashmir government has already allocated colossal funds in the annual budget of the state for the promotion and uplift of the education sector especially to ensure the extension for quality studies through the public-sector educational institutions in the area.
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