BMC to finally deal with tablet initiative`s cons

The failure of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation`s (BMC) tablet initiative owing to a lack of storage spaces and charging points for these tabs has finally been recognised by the civic body. The BMC is now going to float a tender for having additional plug-points for charging these tablets across all the schools in the city that have been provided these tablets. Confirming this, additional municipal commissioner (city) Pallavi Darade said that the corporation will make it a point to finish the instalment of these points soon.

On October 15, Mirror had reported about these tablets are lying in unused in the absence of enough plug points in classrooms. The BMC had spent around Rs 15.5 crore for providing 22,799 tablets to all class 8 students in all civic-run schools in the city.

However, due to poor planning and organisation, the initiative is still seen as a huge failure. Around five months after the tablets were distributed, school principals said that they are alrea dy experiencing problems accessing the content. "The e-learning software is not opening after the initial few weeks.

Two months ago, we put in requests to ward officials to attend to this problem. But, no action has been taken," said the principal of a school in Chembur, on the condition of anonymity. Principals also complained that BMC and tab developers had claimed that the students would not be able to install any third party software or games in the tabs.

However, these claims were baseless. "Children play on these tablets all day long and we...

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