PUNJAB GOVT LAUNCHES COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING IN SCHOOLS
Chandigarh, June 22, 2009
The Pioneer
The Punjab Government has launched Computer Aided Learning (CAL) program in primary and upper primary schools in the State with an interactive approach to improve the grasping power of students.
Education and Languages Minister Upinderjit Kaur said the CAL program was started under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project to establish an enabling environment for teaching and learning and to combine learning with play.
Besides this, the program makes learning interesting and joyful by breaking pressure and monotonous teaching system. It would also promote creativity and thinking of the students as well as teachers also, she said.
In an effort to provide quality education, Education Department has developed interactive multimedia CDs incorporating multimedia educational content for subjects like Mathematics, Science, English and Social Science so as to teach children in play way techniques.
ALL POLICE STATIONS TO BE LINKED VIA INTERNET
New Delhi, June 22, 2009
The Tribune
Policemen sitting in police stations across the country will be connected via a ?cyber-highway? to improve connectivity and increase crime-fighting abilities.
The Rs 2,000 crore project will cover all 14,000 police stations spread across the country. The Union cabinet has approved it.
The project is aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing at the police station-level through e-governance, and creation of a nationwide networked infrastructure for an IT-enabled state-of-the-art tracking system for the investigation of crime and detection of criminals in real time, Home Minister P Chidambaram said here.
The crime and criminal tracking network and system (CCTNS) project would be initiated by Home Ministry and implemented by National crime records bureau.
The objective of the CCTNS is to streamline investigation and prosecution processes, strengthening of intelligence gathering machinery.
It will also facilitate collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, transfer and sharing of data and information among police stations, district and state headquarters and other organisation and agencies, including those at the central government level.
MANNING THE NETWORK
Nivedan Prakash, June 22, 2009
The Financial Express
NDMC has deployed Cyberoam content filtering solutions that play a critical role in protecting its entire network.
New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is going in for an image makeover. It has resolved to intensify its efforts in providing better civic services to the citizens and a multitude of visiting patrons from all over the country and overseas. NDMC regulates and superintends all matters pertaining to taxations, budgeting, revenue, accounts, contracts, audits, sanitation and public health, streets and public safety etc. In other words, it is directly responsible for the well-being of the entire population that resides in New Delhi.
NDMC has set up an IT infrastructure to provide a backbone to the entire administration and back office operations. It has installed computers in various departments, offices and in NDMC schools. It has also designed and developed customised software for various departments such as health, civil, commercial, accounts among others.
NDMC was already using Cisco PIX, which did not fulfill their requirements. They wanted to replace this legacy firewall and also wanted to protect their 15 servers. A legacy firewall solution could not control indiscriminate surfing and blended threats originating on the Web. One of the main challenges faced was unproductive use of Internet bandwidth.
Opening up access to these sites for all users resulted in bandwidth getting choked. Hence selective blocking of sites was required. K Murugan, deputy director?IT at NDMC says, ?With Cisco, we didn?t have the content filtering and mapping options. Earlier, they had declared that Cisco PIX is end of life.
But it had problems, wherein they did not provide any kind of support, especially post sales for this particular product. The most important thing was that the Cisco PIX was not able to give the report. We needed a gateway level solution for three specific purposes.? NDMC wished to replace its legacy firewall because the firewall had limited efficacy in combating blended threats. For total business connectivity, the corporation has three Internet service provider (ISP) links.
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