The Nu 2.5B project, previously known as the ‘Total Solutions project’, is an ICT capacity building project, undertaken by the government of Bhutan, with financial assistance from the Indian government.
The project, in its six components, will work over the next five years towards enabling e-governance, empowering teachers and taking ICT to schools, enabling employment skills, furnishing tertiary institutes with ICT training centres, reaching the unreached all over the nation, and managing e-waste.
The project will soon draw up detailed plans, including course material in the first half. Implementation will begin in the second half of the project.
Chiphen Rigpel’s trainings will cover 7,200 leaders from the government and private sector, 5,000 teachers and 50 core group teachers, 8,400 youth in the vocational training institutes, and 2,400 college youth and professionals in a range of skills.
The project will also build 131 learning stations (known as NIIT’s hole in the walls), 205 community centres, an international testing centre, and set up eight 25-seat training centres in VTIs and four 50-seat training centres in tertiary institutes.
A national e-waste management system will be set up through the project, and rules and regulations for e-waste management will be drafted. Companies will be selected and trained to handle e-waste in the country, following international best practices.
NIIT India will be the implementing partner of the project, which will be coordinated by the ministry of information and communications.
NIIT chairman, Rajendra S Pawar, described the launch as the “beginning of a very important project”. He said that, while the world has moved into the post-industrial era of modernisation, Bhutan has the opportunity to bypass all the negative aspects of industrialised societies.
With this project, he said, “Bhutan is preparing to become an example of what a knowledge society should be.”
“To make the transition into a modern society, all sections of the society has to be professionals, and the significance of the Chiphen Rigpel project is that it touches everyone,” he added.
He also said that the project is a good base for the formation of a GNH society.
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Quelle/Source: Kuensel Online, 01.05.2010
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