Donate old smartphones, laptops to poor families: Pune ZP

The Pune Zilla Parishad has urged local residents to donate used smartphones, laptops, tablets and smart TV sets so that they can be given to poor families in rural areas, and children from those families can use them to attend e-classes during the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to Pune ZP, while it plans to commence online classes for about 14,000 students enrolled in its 3,600 primary and secondary schools, its surveys have found that about 50 per cent of families in rural areas didn’t have a smartphone. This affects the plan of the Education department to shift to digital teaching.