The Rajasthan Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft Corporation of India Private Limited for a five-year-long computer education programme in schools under "Project Shiksha -- Empowering the future''.
The programme encompasses imparting IT skills to 8,000 teachers and thereby to over 400,000 students across 3,000 government schools in the State.
The MoU entails setting up a Microsoft IT Academy Centre at Jaipur for delivering comprehensive teacher training. The Academy would be a world-class facility equipped with state of the art IT lab encompassing hardware, software, curriculum and staff for education delivery and administration.
The formulation and implementation of a teacher training programme, creation of a local IT curriculum for students, rolling out of teachers and student scholarship programmes and assisting the Government to set up a teachers' portal also form part of the agreement.
Mr.Tiwari, Minister, Ministry of Education, said that the contribution from the State Government was the premises they would be providing to Microsoft to operate from. Mr. Mathew, the State's Principal Secretary, Education said the MoU with Microsoft was the first agreement between the Education Department and a major private player in computers.
As for Microsoft, Rajasthan is the eighth State in India with which it has entered into such agreements under Project Shiksha. The others are Uttranchal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh.
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