Gujarat govt discusses proposal for internet service in educational institution

Gandhinagar: Reliance Jio has proposed to offer free high-speed internet services for one year period for primary, secondary, higher secondary and all higher education institutes of Gujarat if hardware support for such service is facilitated by government. If this proposal goes through, lakhs of students will be able to get education via internet.

In response to this proposal, a meeting over presentation was held today in Gandhinagar in presence of education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, MoS in Education ministry Nanubhai Vanani, Reliance Jio’s Parimal Nathwani and higher officials of education department.

The department in this meeting received all technical and other details on benefits to education sector if proposal goes into implementation. The meeting discussed possibilities of cluster wise implementation of this service on experimental basis.

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