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1,300 new digital classrooms at Civic-run schools In Mumbai

With this, the civic body will have 2,600 digital classrooms in total as it already has 1,300 such classrooms in all its public schools.

1,300 new digital classrooms at Civic-run schools In Mumbai
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According to the latest development, it has come to light that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start 1,300 new digital classrooms from the current education year.

With this, the civic body will have 2,600 digital classrooms in total as it already has 1,300 such classrooms in all its public schools.

This year, the civic body made a INR 2,944 crores budgetary provision for education, with INR 244 crores earmarked for capital expenditure. The new digital classrooms are being set up using these funds.

Over the past few years, the BMC has been improving the conditions of civic-run schools. It had also distributed tablets to Class 10 students in 2017 to improve the standard of education.

In the digital classrooms, different subjects are being taught on digital boards, with audio and visual representations that ease the learning process. The civic body believes the digital classrooms create interest. Moreover, with COVID-19 changing everyone’s lives, the demand for new normal of digitization has been on the rise.

For those unversed, the BMC started its first digital classrooms in Govandi's Shivaji Nagar area in 2016. Thereafter, the number of digital classrooms gradually increased to the current number after six years.

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