A delegation from National Services Youth Council Colombo, Sri Lanka, visited e-Learn programme of Punjab IT Board (PITB) at Arfa Tower the other day. The 15-member delegation gathered from all over Sri Lanka was led by Youth Parliament Minister Sri Lanka, Kasun Wickramasingha.
E-Learn's team presented the digital content and shared ongoing educational programmes and initiatives of Punjab government with the delegation. The delegation was informed that the PITB had initiated exemplary IT based education projects in Punjab that were being replicated by the other provinces such as Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and even Islamabad.
Joint Director cum Project Head of e-learn programme, Kashif Farooq said that Punjab was the first province in Pakistan that had made monitoring data of 53,000 public schools. He said, "Our smart monitoring programme has significantly increased attendance and performance of teachers in schools. The monitoring staffs have been made bound to visit each school once a month and send digital reports on attendance, cleanliness and missing facility through our central dashboard. This practice has eliminated fake visits and reports as were found before smart monitoring."
Farooq further said that e-Learn Punjab programme had digitised all science and maths books of the class 6 to 10 and the lessons were being delivered on LED screen in eight selected schools of Punjab under its pilot project through computer tablets given to their teachers. Comparing the youth educational and cultural values in both the countries, the delegates highly appreciated e-Learn's revolutionary initiatives to blend technology and education to avoid rote-learning.
Kasun Wickramasingha applauded and shared his thoughts of proposing collaboration between e-Learn Punajb and Sri Lankan government in education sector. The Principal of Modern-age Public School & College, Abbottabad Wahid Siraj was also accompanying the delegation along with his staff members.
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