<p>In the 90s, the Central government’s motto was to ‘teach a child with a click.’ But now the computer has made its way into classrooms in several schools and all the schools in Karnataka will soon be found on Google Earth.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the government has taken up an initiative<br />to upload all the schools including lower primary, higher primary and high schools on Google Earth. As a result, an alumni of a remote school in Dakshina Kannada sitting in his posh office at USA or UK or Australia can look at his school with a click of a button.<br /><br />Speaking to City Herald, SSA district coordinator Shivaprakash said<br />that under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Dakshina Kannada, the authorities concerned will use Geographic Information System (GIS) to map 1,924 schools. <br />“The SSA will acquire geographical coordinates of all the schools including lower primary, higher primary and high schools. <br /><br />The project also includes a web-based application for accessing the District Information System of Schools Education (DISE) database and the integrated database of schools. The project includes collecting the names and addresses of each government-aided and unaided school and DISE code in each education district from the state project office. It also includes visiting the schools and capturing the geographical coordinates using GPS in a prescribed format.”<br /><br />“In fact, the Block Resource Centre in each cluster has been given 3G GPS facility enabled smart phones to take the photographs of the schools. They were asked to capture minimum of 10 photographs of every school that covers the school building and any other infrastructure present within the premises. Each photograph will capture the correct description of the particular school. In Dakshina Kannada, the photographs of all the schools have been clicked and sent to state SSA office. <br /><br />Though uploading of all the schools of Dakshina Kannada has been complete, it is not open for the public access. It will be open for the public only when all the process in all the districts are complete. Once all the photographs are collected, it will be verified. Through the National Information Centre’s data server, all the information provided by the DISE will be uploaded to the Google Earth.” <br /><br />He says that even the schools which were temporarily closed down were included while taking the photographs. <br /><br />The details pertaining to the number of students, teachers, facilities available in the schools will also be uploaded on the Google Earth in the future. The initiative will help in giving information on the drinking water facility, toilet facility in schools and to implement the development work. <br /><br />The functioning of the BRC and CRP can be viewed at the state-level through GPS mobile facility. At the same time, during election, the details from a particular booth can be obtained easily through GPS facility, he added. <br /></p>
<p>In the 90s, the Central government’s motto was to ‘teach a child with a click.’ But now the computer has made its way into classrooms in several schools and all the schools in Karnataka will soon be found on Google Earth.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the government has taken up an initiative<br />to upload all the schools including lower primary, higher primary and high schools on Google Earth. As a result, an alumni of a remote school in Dakshina Kannada sitting in his posh office at USA or UK or Australia can look at his school with a click of a button.<br /><br />Speaking to City Herald, SSA district coordinator Shivaprakash said<br />that under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Dakshina Kannada, the authorities concerned will use Geographic Information System (GIS) to map 1,924 schools. <br />“The SSA will acquire geographical coordinates of all the schools including lower primary, higher primary and high schools. <br /><br />The project also includes a web-based application for accessing the District Information System of Schools Education (DISE) database and the integrated database of schools. The project includes collecting the names and addresses of each government-aided and unaided school and DISE code in each education district from the state project office. It also includes visiting the schools and capturing the geographical coordinates using GPS in a prescribed format.”<br /><br />“In fact, the Block Resource Centre in each cluster has been given 3G GPS facility enabled smart phones to take the photographs of the schools. They were asked to capture minimum of 10 photographs of every school that covers the school building and any other infrastructure present within the premises. Each photograph will capture the correct description of the particular school. In Dakshina Kannada, the photographs of all the schools have been clicked and sent to state SSA office. <br /><br />Though uploading of all the schools of Dakshina Kannada has been complete, it is not open for the public access. It will be open for the public only when all the process in all the districts are complete. Once all the photographs are collected, it will be verified. Through the National Information Centre’s data server, all the information provided by the DISE will be uploaded to the Google Earth.” <br /><br />He says that even the schools which were temporarily closed down were included while taking the photographs. <br /><br />The details pertaining to the number of students, teachers, facilities available in the schools will also be uploaded on the Google Earth in the future. The initiative will help in giving information on the drinking water facility, toilet facility in schools and to implement the development work. <br /><br />The functioning of the BRC and CRP can be viewed at the state-level through GPS mobile facility. At the same time, during election, the details from a particular booth can be obtained easily through GPS facility, he added. <br /></p>
