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Kerala is set to kick-off a project to provide 2Mbps unlimited broadband Internet connection in all lower and upper primary schools
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Kozhikode: The Internet will be as common as pens or books in any public school in Kerala within a few months. The state is set to kick-off a project to provide 2Mbps unlimited broadband Internet connection in all lower and upper primary schools in a bid to make schools students familiarize with the online world.
The project is said to be the first of its kind in India.
Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the scheme on 1 November that will cover at least 10,000 schools.
“40% of the schools will be covered by December. The rest will be covered by 31 March, 2017," Vijayan said in a Facebook post on Monday.
The state has already been providing broadband Internet to almost all higher secondary schools, close to 5,000 in numbers, and other educational offices since 2007—and all of them runs under Free Software platforms.
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