Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, to improve education in the state, launched free high-speed WiFi service for all government colleges and universities. He launched the service at a college in his constituency Doiwala.
While speaking about education amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Rawat credited Uttarakhand to be the first state in the country to provide free internet to all government colleges and universities. Internet connectivity in colleges and universities will play a big role in the education of students, he said. This facility of the government aims at empowering educational institutions to achieve set academic goals.
Rawat said the move aims at further strengthening the digital education infrastructure in the state and is a big step towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative.
