Intel to donate 10,000 PCs to state govts

Chandigarh, Jun 11 (UNI) Intel India plans to donate 10,000 PCs to state governments and teacher training institutions.

'' Till now, Intel has already donated 404 fully functioning PCs to the Haryana government and 200 to the Assam government,'' Intel South Asia Managing Director Rammurathi Sivakumar said at a press conference here today.

Intel, he said, had also signed a memorandum of understanding with Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) to start a pilot project and donate 60 classmate PCs to class VII students studying at NVS Mothuka, Faridabad.

''Intel aims to train one million teachers on the application of technology to improve classroom learning and as a result, help more than 30 million students across India by 2008,'' he said.

Till date over 6,70,000 educators had completed the Intel teacher training programme since it was launched in India in 2000, he added.

Intel had already 10,598 and 1351 government school teachers in Haryana and the Union territory of Chandigarh under this programme. The Master Trainer Club in Chandigarh had trained 7953 teachers across schools in Haryana, Chandigarh and Punjab.

UNI