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Sibal pitches for technology for school
students
Friday, October 15, 2010 10:01:51 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
As Microsoft and Autodesk Friday signed MoUs with the All India
Council for Technical Education for providing free software to
engineering college students, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal pitched for giving such facilities to secondary school
children as well.
"Empowerment is needed at school level. We are empowering few at
the high end but if we give these technologies to the school
children, it will be more beneficial," Sibal said after signing of
the Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs).
AICTE Chairman S.S. Mantha signed MoUs with Autodesk Chief
Education Officer Joe Asthroth and Microsoft General Manager -
Developer Partner Evangelism Moorthy Uppaluri.
The step will benefit nearly 50 lakh students and over 3 lakh
faculty all over the country as unique ID and passwords will be
provided to them, enabling free download of the softwares.
"We have already provided unique IDs to institutes under AICTE and
now are in the process of providing unique ID to students and
faculty," Mantha said.
Sibal said the step will be more beneficial for the faculty than
the students.
"Teachers are the most important target audience. We have a
faculty shortage," he said.
Giving a brief on the upcoming initiatives, Mantha said more such
proposals were being worked on with IT majors like IBM and Oracle.
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