Samsung, India’s most admired brand, today inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program Samsung Smart School at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Dehradun, providing digital learning opportunities to students and helping improve their learning abilities. Samsung is also training teachers of the school to enhance their interactive teaching methods.

The Samsung Smart School program aims to create young leaders of tomorrow by giving less-privileged students in India access to the benefits of digital education and its own transformative innovations under Samsung’s vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’.

As part of the program, students of JNV Dehradun will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school. With an extreme focus on innovation and STEM application among students, JNV Dehradun is equipped with an Atal Tinkering Lab to provide improved quality of the innovative learning process. Established in 2007, JNV Dehradun is pioneering the interventions on “Pareeksha pe Charcha” – a discussion introduced by Hon’ble PM on School Examinations in the country.

In the classrooms, an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board replaces the traditional blackboard, making it a more exciting and fun learning environment for students. Students can use the second Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork, and project work, and the 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and a power backup.

At an event held with the students of JNV Dehradun, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated in the presence of Ravit Sharma, Manager, Union Bank of India, Mrs. Anjula Tamta, Principal Jawahar Navodaya Vidayalaya, Dehradun & members of Samsung India team.

“We are pleased to be a part of the Samsung Smart School program, which is enabling digital education for our students. Our association will surely help to enhance the learning abilities of our students as well as our teacher’s capabilities. The teacher training module, which is a part of this program to help them explain complicated topics in an easy-to-understand visual format,” Mrs. Anjula Tamta, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dehradun.

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is closely tied with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government to ensure less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Dehradun will provide digital learning opportunities to students and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure to teach. Samsung Smart School program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India.

The Samsung Smart School program is being announced at 10 JNV schools this year. Apart from JNV Dehradun, the schools have been set up in Gwalior, Varanasi, Udaipur, Kangra, Sambalpur, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna, Dhanbad, and Raipur. A number of these schools are situated in remote rural districts around these cities.

The program will cover over 5,000 students. Apart from that, around 260 teachers will receive training on digital teaching. Of these, around 435 students are at JNV Dehradun.

Apart from infrastructure support, Samsung Smart School will also enable digital learning for students in these schools through multiple touch points. This includes teacher training, providing meaningful and relevant educational content for all classes from Grade 6-12, as per the CBSE curriculum, to enable teachers to use these classrooms more effectively, and enhance student learning through an interactive and immersive learning process.

Under Samsung’s global citizenship vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People,’ it seeks to empower the next generation to achieve their full potential and pioneer positive social changes. Samsung believes in using innovation to positively transform communities and create a better life for people through its citizenship initiatives.

Samsung Electronics runs three citizenship programs globally – Samsung Smart School, Samsung Innovation Campus, and Solve for Tomorrow – through which it is empowering the leaders of tomorrow and equipping them with the tools they need to realize meaningful change.

The Samsung Smart School program aims to create young leaders of tomorrow by giving less-privileged students in India access to the benefits of digital education and its own transformative innovations under Samsung’s vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’.

As part of the program, students of JNV Sambalpur will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school. At an event held with the students of JNV Sambalpur, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Mr. B Gangadhar, Superintendent of Police, Sambalpur who is an alumnus of JNV, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh and Mr. SK Dash, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sambalpur.

JNV Sambalpur students gathered in assembly hall for the launch of Samsung Smart School

“We at JNV Sambalpur are constantly driving efforts to enhance the learning experience for students and enable teachers with better learning methods, with Samsung Smart School program we will be able to provide digital education to our students. We are delighted to be a part of Samsung Smart School program as the collaboration will surely help to improve students’ learning abilities as well as our teacher’s capabilities.” said Mr. SK Dash, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sambalpur.

In the classrooms, an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board replaces the traditional blackboard, making it a more exciting and fun learning environment for students. Students can use the second Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork, and project work, and the 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and a power backup.

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is aligned with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government. Through this initiative we want to ensure that less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Sambalpur will equip students with digital learning and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure. This program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India.

The Samsung Smart School program is being announced at 10 JNV schools this year. Apart from JNV Sambalpur, the schools have been set up in Gwalior, Varanasi, Udaipur, Kangra, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna, Dhanbad, and Raipur. A number of these schools are situated in remote rural districts around these cities.

The program will cover over 5,000 students. Apart from that, around 260 teachers will receive training on digital teaching. Of these, around 572 (381 boys and 191 girls) students are at JNV Sambalpur.

Apart from infrastructure support, Samsung Smart School will also enable digital learning for students in these schools through multiple touch points. This includes teacher training, providing meaningful and relevant educational content for all classes from Grade 6-12, as per the CBSE curriculum, to enable teachers to use these classrooms more effectively, and enhance student learning through an interactive and immersive learning process.

Samsung India has inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program Samsung Smart School at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Dhanbad (Benagoria), providing digital learning opportunities to students and helping improve their learning abilities. Samsung is also training teachers of the school to enhance their interactive teaching methods.

The Samsung Smart School program aims to create young leaders of tomorrow by giving less-privileged students in India access to the benefits of digital education and its own transformative innovations under Samsung’s vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’.

As part of the program, students of JNV Dhanbad will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school. With an extreme focus on digital pedagogies and learning, JNV Dhanbad is equipped with a Digital library to provide improved quality of the teaching-learning process.

In the classrooms, an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board replaces the traditional blackboard, making it a more exciting and fun learning environment for students. Students can use the second Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork, and project work, and the 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and a power backup.

At an event held with the students of JNV Dhanbad, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Mr. Sandeep Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Dhanbad and Mr. SK Upadhyaya, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanbad.

“We are pleased to be a part of the Samsung Smart School program, which is enabling digital education for our students. This collaboration will surely help to improve students’ learning abilities as well as our teacher’s capabilities. The teacher training module, is a part of this program that will help them explain complicated topics in an easy-to-understand visual format,” said Mr. SK Upadhyay, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanbad.

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is closely tied with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government to ensure less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Dhanbad will equip students with digital learning and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure. This program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India.

The Samsung Smart School program is being announced at 10 JNV schools this year. Apart from JNV Dhanbad, the schools have been set up in Gwalior, Varanasi, Udaipur, Kangra, Sambalpur, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna, and Raipur. A number of these schools are situated in remote rural districts around these cities.

The program will cover over 5,000 students. Apart from that, around 260 teachers will receive training on digital teaching. Of these, around 465 students are at JNV Dhanbad.

Apart from infrastructure support, Samsung Smart School will also enable digital learning for students in these schools through multiple touch points. This includes teacher training, providing meaningful and relevant educational content for all classes from Grade 6-12, as per the CBSE curriculum, to enable teachers to use these classrooms more effectively, and enhance student learning through an interactive and immersive learning process.

Samsung, India’s most trusted brand, today inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program, Samsung Smart School, at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Gwalior, enabling digital learning for students and bridging the digital divide in India. Samsung is also providing training to the school teachers for augmenting their collaborative teaching methods.

The Samsung Smart School program aims to create young leaders of tomorrow by giving less-privileged students in India access to the benefits of digital education and its own transformative innovations under Samsung’s vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’.

As part of the program, students of JNV Gwalior will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school.

The Samsung smart classrooms are equipped with an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board, making it a more exciting and fun learning experience for the students.  The classes also have another Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork, and project work, and 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and power backup.

At an event held with the students of JNV Gwalior, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Mr. HB Sharma, Additional District Magistrate. Gwalior, Mr. Pradeep Sharma, Joint Collector, Dabra, Mr. Vikash Joshi, District Education Officer, Gwalior, Ms. Ekta Kumar, General Manager, CSR, Samsung India and Ms. Uma Maheshwari, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gwalior.

“We are delighted to see the efforts put in by   Samsung to enable digital education for students in remote areas of Gwalior. Samsung Smart School and the strong teacher training component of this program are already helping us enhance learning outcomes for students and this will go a long way in bridging the digital divide,” said Ms. Uma Maheshwari, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gwalior.

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is closely tied with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government to ensure less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Gwalior will equip students with digital learning and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure. This program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India. 

The goal of Samsung Smart School is to improve the learning abilities of students and also their understanding of critical concepts in the classrooms via interactive digital teaching methods that teachers have been trained in.

The Samsung Smart School program is being launched at 10 JNV schools this year. Apart from JNV Gwalior, Samsung Smart School have been set up in JNV schools in Varanasi, Raipur, Udaipur, Kangra, Sambhalpur, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna, and Dhanbad. Many of these schools are located in remote rural districts around these cities. The program will cover over 5,000 students, of which 40% are girls. Apart from that around 260 teachers will receive training on digital teaching. Of these, around 534 students are at JNV Gwalior.

Apart from infrastructure support, Samsung Smart School will also enable digital learning through multiple touchpoints such as teacher training, providing meaningful and relevant educational content for all classes from Grade 6-12 as per CBSE curriculum, enabling teachers to use these classrooms more effectively and enhance student learning through an interactive and immersive learning process.

Under Samsung’s global citizenship vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People,’ Samsung seeks to empower the next generation to achieve their full potential and pioneer positive social changes. Samsung believes in using innovation to positively transform communities and create a better life for people through its citizenship initiatives. 

Samsung Electronics runs three citizenship programs globally – Samsung Smart School, Samsung Innovation Campus, and Solve for Tomorrow – through which it is empowering the leaders of tomorrow and equipping them with the tools they will need to realize meaningful change.

Samsung, India’s most admired brand, today inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program Samsung Smart School at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Patna, providing digital learning opportunities to students and helping improve their learning abilities. Samsung is also training teachers of the school to enhance their interactive teaching methods.

The Samsung Smart School program aims to create young leaders of tomorrow by giving less-privileged students in India access to the benefits of digital education and its own transformative innovations under Samsung’s vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’.

As part of the program, students of JNV Patna will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school.

In the classrooms, an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board replaces the traditional blackboard, making it a more exciting and fun learning environment for students. Students can use the second Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork and project work and the 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and power backup.

At an event held with the students of JNV Patna, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Dr. Chandrashekhar Singh, District Magistrate, Patna, Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India and Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Patna.

“We are delighted that JNV Patna is part of the Samsung Smart School program, which is enabling digital education for students here. Students are enthused to use the Samsung Smart School and we are seeing an improvement in their learning abilities and the teacher training module that is part of this program is also helping teachers explain complicated topics in an easy to understand visual format. This initiative will definitely help in bridging the digital divide,” said Jitendra Kumar, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Patna.

[From L-R] Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India, Dr. Chandrashekhar Singh, District Magistrate, Patna, and Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Patna.

JNV Patna has a strong focus on promoting IT literacy among students through Open Source Software and is also working on an innovative approach of Mind Mapping that is recognized by NCERT.

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is closely tied with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government to ensure less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Patna will equip students with digital learning and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure. This program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India.

The goal of Samsung Smart School is to improve learning abilities of students and also their understanding of critical concepts in the classrooms via interactive digital teaching methods that teachers have been trained in.

The Samsung Smart School program is being piloted at 10 JNV schools in its first year. Apart from JNV Patna, Samsung Smart School have been set up in JNV schools in Gwalior, Raipur, Udaipur, Kangra, Sambhalpur, Faridabad, Dehradun, Varanasi and Dhanbad. Many of these schools are located in remote rural districts around these cities. The pilot will cover over 5,000 students, of which 40% are girls, and around 260 teachers will receive training. Of these, around 400 students are at JNV Patna.

Apart from infrastructure support, Samsung Smart School will also enable digital learning for students in these schools through multiple touch points such as teacher training, providing meaningful and relevant educational content for all classes from Grade 6-12 as per CBSE curriculum to enable teachers to use these classrooms more effectively and enhance student learning through an interactive and immersive learning process.

Under Samsung’s global citizenship vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People,’ Samsung seeks to empower the next generation to achieve their full potential and pioneer positive social changes. Samsung believes in using innovation to positively transform communities and create a better life for people through its citizenship initiatives. 

Samsung Electronics runs three citizenship programs globally – Samsung Smart School, Samsung Innovation Campus and Solve for Tomorrow – through which it is empowering the leaders of tomorrow and equipping them with the tools they will need to realize meaningful change.

Samsung, India’s most admired brand, today inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program Samsung Smart School at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Varanasi, providing digital learning opportunities to students and helping improve their learning abilities. Samsung is also training teachers of the school to enhance their interactive teaching methods.

The Samsung Smart School program aims to create young leaders of tomorrow by giving less-privileged students in India access to the benefits of digital education and its own transformative innovations under Samsung’s vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’.

As part of the program, students of JNV Varanasi will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school.

In the classrooms, an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board replaces the traditional blackboard, making it a more exciting and fun learning environment for students. Students can use the second Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork and project work and the 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and power backup.

At an event held with the students of JNV Varanasi, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Mr. Kaushal Raj Sharma, District Magistrate, Varanasi, who is also a former JNV student, Mr. S.K. Maheshwari, Deputy Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) Regional Office, Varanasi, Mr Peter Rhee, Deputy Managing Director, Samsung India, Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India and Mr. PK Singh, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Varanasi.

“We are delighted to see the efforts put in by Samsung to enable digital education for students in remote areas of Varanasi. Samsung Smart School and the strong teacher training component of this program are already helping us improve learning processes for students and will go a long way in bridging the digital divide,” said Mr. PK Singh, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Varanasi. 

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is closely tied with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government to ensure less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Varanasi will provide digital learning opportunities to students and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure to teach. Samsung Smart School program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India.

The goal of Samsung Smart School is to improve learning abilities of students and also their understanding of critical concepts in the classrooms via interactive digital teaching methods that teachers have been trained in.

The Samsung Smart School program is being piloted at 10 JNV schools in its first year. Apart from JNV Varanasi, Samsung Smart School have been set up in JNV schools in Gwalior, Raipur, Udaipur, Kangra, Sambhalpur, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna and Dhanbad. Many of these schools are located in remote rural districts around these cities. The pilot will cover over 5,000 students, of which 40% are girls, and around 260 teachers will receive training. Of these, around 500 students are at JNV Varanasi.

Apart from infrastructure support, Samsung Smart School will also enable digital learning for students in these schools through multiple touch points such as teacher training, providing meaningful and relevant educational content for all classes from Grade 6-12 as per CBSE curriculum to enable teachers to use these classrooms more effectively and enhance student learning through an interactive and immersive learning process.

Under Samsung’s global citizenship vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People,’ Samsung seeks to empower the next generation to achieve their full potential and pioneer positive social changes. Samsung believes in using innovation to positively transform communities and create a better life for people through its citizenship initiatives. 

Samsung Electronics runs three citizenship programs globally – Samsung Smart School, Samsung Innovation Campus and Solve for Tomorrow – through which it is empowering the leaders of tomorrow and equipping them with the tools they will need to realize meaningful change.

Samsung, India’s most trusted brand, has given scholarships to 544 meritorious students from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools who have qualified for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT), as part of its Samsung Star Scholar program, fulfilling its vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia by empowering the next generation of Young India.

In its sixth year, Samsung Star Scholar program has so far benefitted 800 JNV students. Under this program, Samsung offers scholarships every year to meritorious JNV students pursuing full-term B. Tech/Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) course at any IIT or NIT.

The program offers a scholarship of up to 2 lakh for expenses related to tuition, examination, hostel and mess for one academic year and it can be renewed every year up to 5 years, seeking to financially support less privileged students from JNV schools who qualify to these prestigious engineering colleges.

“Samsung helps young people around the world gain access to better educational and learning opportunities as part of its citizenship vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’. The Samsung Star Scholar program is an embodiment of our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia that seeks to empower the next generation of young India. As we enter the sixth year of the Star Scholar program, we are excited to have supported these bright young talent who we wish to see as future leaders transforming the nation,” Partha Ghosh, Vice President & Head, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India, said.

This year the program has granted 150 scholarships to new applicants from JNVs, of which 87 will begin their journey across different IITs and 63 at different NITs across India this year. In addition, scholarships have been renewed for the next year for 394 existing students. Recipients of renewed scholarships include 139 second year students, 171 third year students, 82 fourth year students and two fifth year students.

The selection of first-year applicants is based on their All India Rank (AIR) in JEE Main, however, to get a renewal of the scholarship for the 2nd – 4/5th year, students are required to maintain a Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) or Cumulative Grade Point Average (CPGA) rating of 5 or above.

The Samsung India and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti partnership for ‘Samsung Smart School’ program, which is aimed at providing digital education to less-privileged students from rural backgrounds, began in 2013.

Samsung is adding smart classes to 80 new JNV schools, taking the total number of JNV schools in which Samsung has set up smart classes to 625, impacting close to 500,000 students. So far, over 8,000 teachers have also been trained on how to use interactive technology to teach effectively, improving the quality of teaching and building capacity at JNV schools

Every Samsung Smart Class is equipped with an interactive Samsung Smartboards, Samsung tablets, a printer, Wi-Fi connectivity and power backup.

To learn more about the ‘Samsung Star Scholar’ program, please visit Samsung’s website https://www.samsung.com/in/microsite/sapne-hue-bade/star-scholar/

With these additions, Samsung Smart Class is now available at 652 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools, 28 Government schools in Tamil Nadu and three Delhi Police Public Schools, taking the total number of Samsung Smart Class in India to 683.

Seventy Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools, which previously did not have a smart class, have got one Samsung Smart Class each, while a second Samsung Smart Class has been added at 99 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools across the country. JNVs are run by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India to make modern education available to talented children from rural India.

Shri Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Human Resources & Development, Government of India, said, “Education is not just the ability to read and write, but also gain a huge amount of knowledge. Our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision today is to improve the quality of education across the country that will help the less privileged gain the right kind of education. In this pursuit, we want technology to be used to increase the digital intensity in education. We are happy that Samsung is making a valuable contribution in our effort to move from blackboard to digital board across schools.”

Samsung is committed to harnessing its legacy of innovation to positively transform communities and create a better life for people through its citizenship initiatives. Samsung Smart Class, the company’s flagship citizenship initiative in India, aims to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban India and provide equal opportunities for quality education to children from all backgrounds.

Mr. HC Hong, President and CEO, Samsung Southwest Asia, said, “We are elated with the phenomenal success of our flagship citizen program in India. Samsung Smart Class initiative has helped over 2.5 lakh children across the nation become digitally literate. This initiative is closely tied with India’s development agenda, and implemented in close partnership with government departments to ensure wider reach and impact among the less-privileged children. It is also in line with the government’s mandate of bringing in technology to improve the quality of education and gradually move from blackboard to digital board.”

One of the key challenges being faced by government schools in rural India is English literacy. To address this issue, Samsung has started offering a digital program on spoken English to all students at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools.

“The Government of Tamil Nadu is working towards creating better facilities for quality education in the state. This collaboration for Samsung Smart Class is a step in that direction and will enable us to provide quality education to underprivileged students,” said Shri KA Sengottaiyan, School Education Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu.

Since the first Samsung Smart Class was established in 2013 in association with Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, over 2.5 lakh students have benefitted from it. In addition, over 8,000 teachers have been trained on how to use interactive technology to teach effectively, improving the quality of teaching and building capacity at government schools.

Teachers and school principals at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools have provided feedback that Samsung Smart Class has increased student attention, reduced rates of student absenteeism and increased student familiarity and comfort with technology such as smart boards, laptops and printers.

Additionally, teachers have also said that students learn complicated concepts more easily and that the digitally interactive environment encourages shy or hesitant students to participate better in classroom discussions.

Every Samsung Smart Class is equipped with an interactive Samsung Smartboards, Samsung tablets, a printer, Wi-Fi connectivity and power backup.