Interactive flat panels, pre-loaded smart TVS: Andhra Pradesh govt schools are all set to be revamped

He added, “The government will formally launch a programme on December 21 to make phone tablets and e-content available to students of Class 8 at government schools round-the-clock.”

Around 4.6 lakh students studying in Class 8 and 60,000 faculty will be given the tabs with a three-year warranty at a cost of Rs 668 crore. In addition to this, Byju’s’s content worth Rs 778 crore will also be available for free. These initiatives will be first implemented in the 15,715 schools which have been repaired, renovated and revamped under the “Nadu-Nedu (Then and Now)” government scheme for government schools.

In the first phase, infrastructure in 15,715 schools were repaired at a cost of Rs 3,699 crore. The revamped infrastructure includes separate toilets for girls and boys with running water; and drinking water outlets, tube lights, fans and furniture in all the classes and a compound wall around every school.

In the second phase, which was launched on August 16 last year, 16,368 government schools are undergoing renovation at a cost of Rs 4,535 crore. The government will spend an estimated cost of Rs 16,025 crore under the scheme to revamp all the 45,000-odd government and aided schools. As a part of the reforms in the education sector which includes making English as the medium of instruction in all schools, the government is also giving school kits for free to students from Class 1 to 10. The kit comprises cloth for three pairs of uniform, one pair of black shoes, two pairs of socks, prescribed text books, notebooks, a belt and a school bag. There are 38,532 zilla and mandal praja parishad schools, 2,103 municipal schools and 633 state government-run schools in Andhra Pradesh.