IIT-M’S ELECTRONICS PROGRAMME FOR GOVT. SCHOOL STUDENTS

• The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) will soon be rolling out a certification programme in electronics for government school students across Tamil Nadu.
• This new initiative aims at enhancing electronics knowledge and skills of students at a young age and will be made available for those studying in Classes 9, 10, 11 and 12.
• V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT-M, said, “We are designing electronic kits within IIT-M for this. We have a set of experiments which the students have to do. We will send teams to evaluate if they have done the experiments correctly and give them a certificate.” The students would have to spend an average of 10 hours for the programme.
• Tamil Nadu School Education Department will identify 250 schools for this initiative. “We intend to begin this from January 2023. The aim is to teach electronics to over one lakh students a year,” Mr. Kamakoti said.
• To a query on how this initiative would be funded and how much it would cost, the Director said, “We haven’t made any estimate yet. We will do this through our CSR funds.”
• Under the ‘Anaivarukkum IIT-M’ (IIT-M for everyone), the institution would offer a four-year BS degree in Electronic System Design Manufacturing.
• “Electronic System Design Manufacturing is growing in India and we need a large talent pool. The idea behind the initiative for the school students and the BS degree is to create human capacity in the coming years for this market,” Mr. Kamakoti noted

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB