Students travel 3 km to access internet for online class in Mizoram village

Lack of web connectivity within the Pukzing Vengthar Village of Mizoram’s Mamit is hampering the research of the scholars residing within the space.

College students need to journey greater than three kilometers day by day to get connectivity in order that they’ll examine. The poor connectivity is hampering the examinations and project submission by college students.

Talking to ANI, the village council president of Pukzing Vengthar mentioned, “Attributable to lack of web connectivity, college students journey greater than three km to get the sign. After crossing the Tlangnuam Village web site we get the connectivity. Even throughout rain college students need to journey miles to look for his or her examination.”

An area pupil mentioned, “We journey greater than three km to get the sign. It’s actually laborious for us to look for exams on-line as there isn’t any web connectivity in our Village. The project submission can also be hampered as a consequence of this.”

The village is located simply 60 km away from sub-district headquarter and 104 km away from district headquarter Mamit and has a inhabitants of 500 folks.

Earlier this month, seven undergraduate college students in a distant village in south Mizoram’s Siaha district appeared their on-line semester examinations from a hilltop as a consequence of poor web connectivity. A makeshift hut made from bamboo, tarpaulin, and banana leaves was erected on the summit of the hill which acts as their ‘examination centre’.

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