Schools across the city of Mumbai and nearby areas have been shut due to the coronavirus outbreak and observing the lockdown, the state government has informed that they would not reopen at least until August 31, 2020. Currently, several schools are conducting online classes for the students and adding more facilities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently decided to undertake a project to convert normal classrooms to interactive classrooms at BMC run schools.
As per reports, regular blackboards will be replaced with interactive digital boards, and the project will cost INR 38-crores. Officials have floated the tender for 1300 classrooms, and the meeting for the initial pre-bid process was conducted on July 20, 2020. Nearly 65 service providers participated in the meeting, and the attendees included contractors, market leaders and other officials.
It is said that the initial cost of the project was INR 60 crores, but after revising the team of officials in consultation with a Chief Engineer, has brought down the cost to INR 38 crores. Estimates state that INR 2.83 lakh will be the cost of a smart board and INR 24,780 will be used to install content on these devices. An Intel 3 device with 4GB of RAM and 50 GB of in-built memory will be installed in the smartboard. Additional costs will be used for electrical fittings, and the total cost has been calculated as INR 38 crores.
Indian Express shared a statement from the tender which read, “The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation intends to create digital classrooms in various municipal schools for interactive education. The digital classrooms shall have an interactive panel (smartboard) preloaded with software containing the Maharashtra State Board’s syllabus on all subjects from class I and class X, games, audiovisual and PowerPoint presentation slides and quizzes.”
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