Maharashtra: For access to online classes, schools take to crowdsourcing for gadgets

To ensure that students who do not have the means of owning electronic gadgets through which they can access online classes, school have taken to crowdsourcing to procure gadgets to be distributed among those in need.

Over the last four days, 35 smartphones, four tablets and two laptops were pledged to the D S High School in Mumbai’s Sion, some of which were collected over the weekend. However, to effectively provide online education to such students who hail from largely Marathi schools in Dharavi, Chunabhatti and Pratiksha Nagar localities, the school needs at least 300 devices.

“We made many calls to the people we knew. So far, we have handed over 15 devices to our students, which were donated to us,” said Rajendra Pradhan, president of Shiv Shikshan Sanstha that runs the school.