Telangana Government plans to start teaching programming languages in schools

Highlights

• Telangana government plans to introduce coding for 33 schools.
• Teachers and students to be trained in Python, HTML programming, and the Scratch program.
• Students are likely to learn new skills due to the introduction of coding.

Mumbai, Maharashtra: The Telangana government intends to launch a pilot program that would introduce coding for 33 schools. Further, the location of these schools is in the Wanaparthy district of Telangana. According to officials, the introduction of coding will take place to the students of government schools from the district.

Check the post from the official Facebook page of TITA about this program.

The week-long pilot program will be carried out by the Telangana State Education Department, the Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA), and the Telangana IT and Communications Department. According to IT Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan, identification of the members of the Telangana Information Technology Association has taken place to assess the project’s principal pilot. This will certainly help in assessing the possible challenges.

According to the reports from the media, an entry-level training program will take place for the school teachers and students. After that, the training of teachers and students in the Scratch Program, Python, and HTML programming will take place. Moreover, the duration of this training will be of five days.

Sudeep Kumar happens to be the global president of the Telangana Information Technology Association. According to him, students will learn new skills due to the project. In addition, Sudeep Kumar believes that introducing coding at the school level will improve the problem-solving skills of students. Further, coding skills will open entrepreneurial opportunities for the students, according to Sudeep Kumar. Moreover, the selection of 99 students has taken place for the pilot project.

The release of the Class 10 Board Exam time table has come from the Telangana State Board of Secondary Education. Candidates would need to simply visit the Board’s official website in order to access the Telangana SSC time table 2020. Moreover, March 2020 to April 2020 would be the duration of the Class 10 Telangana State Board Examination. Further, one can check out the time table on bse.telangana.gov.in.

Read more news on Telangana Board here.

Rameez Iqbal

Rameez Iqbal is a news content writer at Toppr since November 2019. He has good knowledge about the Education industry in India.