Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 10: The W20 conducted an outreach program for the rural girl children on digital literacy with its objective to bridge the Gender Digital Divide.
The Program was presided over by Dr Sandhya Purecha, Chair W20, who visited Delhi Public School (DPS) Nagbani, where a state of the art computer laboratory has been set up by founding chairperson of FICCI FLO JKL Ritu Singh in collaboration with NIIT and The Ashok Kapur Foundation under project ‘Vriddhi’. Over 60 girls have graduated with Level 1 of the certified computer skilling by the NIIT Foundation.
Keeping the tradition of the region intact, the session started with paying obeisance to Shiv and Shakti. Dr Sandhya Purecha delivered an address emphasizing on the importance of Digital Literacy to bridge the Gender Digital Divide.
On the occasion, highly motivated students gave a scintillating performance of the traditional Dogri song and dance as a mark of celebration to the feats accomplished on the success of their results on their second round of examinations.
Ritu Singh apprised the W20 Chair and media persons present on the details of this highly successful project undertaken by her and the Digital Literacy drive.
Later, Dr Sandhya and Ritu Singh distributed certificates to the children. Thereafter, they visited the Lab where the second batch of 25 girls learnt MS Word, Excel and Power point and online services such as aadhar seva, passport registration, online pan card application, net banking, making email id’s and Facebook accounts, card designing and printing of documents.
The Ashok Kapur Foundation is supporting these girl children to avail of mainstream extra-curricular activities like English speaking, dance, theatre and music, integrating them with the urban girl children.
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