Smartphones distributed among Delhi students to access online classes

NEW DELHI: Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, on December 22, distributed 230 smartphones among students studying in classes 9 to 12 of the Government Sarvodaya Co-ed Secondary Vidyalaya in Rohini. The devices were collected with help of civil society members to help students in attending online classes, which have been going on since March 2020.

Sisodia commented that the education sector has received the hardest blow by the pandemic. He added that a lot of students have been unable to access online classes because of lack of devices and networks. Sisodia had distributed tablets provided by Tata Power-DDL and BSES discoms in first week of December as well. He thanked organisations, volunteers, and citizens to help government mobilise the plan of getting devices and distributing them to students to minimize the loss that students and their education have taken due to the pandemic. He said that “these are symbols of the collective goodness of people coming together in such dire times.”