By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Former Education Minister and Mawprem legislator Manas Chaudhuri has rued the fact that very few students get access to computer in the country while children in advanced countries like USA are introduced to computer when they are just two years old.
The statement came from the legislator while he was addressing the first foundation day of the Rajiv Gandhi Computer Training Center and Nursery Teachers’ Training Academy in the city on Saturday.
While recalling his US trip in 1998, the legislator said, “In 1998 when I visited the US I was simply amazed of seeing two-year-old children using computers.”
According to Chaudhuri, though students in India are equally talented as their counterparts in other developed countries yet they do not have the opportunity to learn and enhance their knowledge.
While holding a view that the accessibility to computers for poor students is a major hindrance for them to become IT literate, Chaudhuri pointed out, “A complete computer set costs around Rs 40,000, so how can poor students afford it.”
Chaudhuri later gave away the certificates to students who had completed their course in the institute in Shillong.