New Delhi: Samsung India on Thursday said that it is adding smart classes to 80 new Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools.
A Samsung spokesperson said this is part of the company’s initiative to provide digital education to less-privileged students and fulfilling its vision of Powering Digital India by empowering the next generation of students.
Smart classes set up by Samsung will be available at 625 JNV schools and 10 Navodaya leadership institutes in 835 classrooms across the country, impacting close to five lakh students.
A majority of the new smart classes are being set up in remote rural districts like Kupwara in Jammu & Kashmir, Dahod in Gujarat, Sukma in Chhattisgarh, Darjeeling in West Bengal and Baksa in Assam. These new JNV schools are spread across 17 states.
JNV schools are run by the Ministry of Education to make modern education available to talented children from rural India, Hindustan Times reported.