Srinagar, Nov 28: The School Education Department (SED) is mulling to establish 500 innovation laboratories—Atal Tinkering Labs in Kashmir region.
Officials at Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) said that the Department had called for a meeting in this regard earlier this week with the Chief Education Officers (CEOs).
The personal officer at DSEK in an official communiqué has told CEOs of Kashmir division to attend the meeting chaired by the director of the department.
The CEOs were asked to attend the meeting along-with hard copies pertaining to Atal Tinkering Labs with the signature of concerned Head of Institutions (HoIs).
According to the NITI Aayog, Atal Tinkering Labs is a “mission”, to cultivate one million children in India as Neoteric Innovators.
“With the objective to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination in young minds, Atal Innovation Mission is establishing ATLs in schools across India to inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning and physical computing,” reads a NITI Aayog statement regarding establishment of ATL labs.
“Young children will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand the concepts of science, technology, engineering and math and ATL would contain educational and learning ‘do it yourself’ kits and equipment on science, electronics, robotics, open-source microcontroller boards, sensors and 3D printers and computers,” it reads.
In the meantime, Rising Kashmir tried to establish a contact with Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) Tassaduq Hussain Mir. However, despite repeated attempts, Mir did not respond to any calls and texts.