CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday launched a scheme to give 2GB free data per day to college students to attend online classes.
Under the scheme, more than nine lakh students in government arts and science colleges, polytechnic colleges, engineering colleges and students in private colleges receiving scholarships will get free data from January to April 2021.
As a token, the CM gave data cards to nine students.
Though the state government allowed colleges to reopen for all UG and PG students from February 8, attending physical classes will likely to remain optional and colleges will offer classes both in offline and online mode for this semester.
The data cards will be distributed through Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd (ELCOT). Experts said that 2GB data would be enough to view up to eight hours of video content.