The Rajasthan Government will showcase its USD 50 million Information Technology education plan at the Jordan Education Initiative in Jordan on 17 and 18 May to attract the attention of the global IT giants to the State. The platform will be used to put the ambitious project for strengthening of school education before the world community.

More than 2,000 schools in the State are proposed to be equipped with modern facilities through the extension of IT, as part of which computer labs will be established, courses introduced and teachers provided with training. The second part of the venture envisages linking of schools with the proposed Knowledge Corridor project along the Jaipur-Delhi national highway.

Source: The Hindu