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Saturday, August 30, 2008 (12:15:28) |
| Tags : Kerela, Kozhikode, e-literate city, Mayor M Bhaskaran |
Kozhikode declared first e-literate city in Kerala |
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| Kozhikode: Kozhikode was on Friday declared the first e-literate city in Kerala, thanks to a special scheme that aims at making at least one member of each family computer literate. The e-literacy project was kicked off in the city in 2005. It was executed by Akshaya, a scheme of the Kerala government's IT mission, which aims at 100 percent e-literacy in the state, assisted by the city corporation and women's self-help group 'Kudumbasree'.
"The objective was to make at least one person from each of the 80,532 households in the city e-literate. We met 93.5 per cent of the target. The declaration is now being made as the city crossed 90 per cent," Kozhikode Corporation Mayor M Bhaskaran said while making the announcement.
He said that under the project, each person was given a total of 15 hours of computer training in a period of 10 days.
"The fee per head was Rs 120. The corporation provided Rs 80, while the rest was paid by the trainee," Bhaskaran said. The corporation spent a total of Rs 6.4 million for the project, he added.
A number of panchayats and districts in the state had earlier been announced as totally e-literate. (IANS) |
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