IT@School, an initiative of Kerala government to widen IT education in schools, would identify one school in each 140 assembly constituencies to implement 'ICT Model School' programme.

Education Minister M A Baby had asked MLAs of each constituency to select one school for the programme.

It was envisaged to establish a ICT enabled education programme in selected schools by equipping with necessary ifrastructure and providing training to teacher, official sources said.

Under the IT @ School project, 90,000 computers were made available in schools since the project started in 2000. The project has achieved several milestones in implementing ICT enabled education in over 8000 schools.

The backbone of the project was its strong network of 200 Master Trainers and 5600 School IT Co-ordinators.As on date, more than One lakh teachers have been given training as part of the project initiatives, Sadath said.

'The initial years of the project was focussed more towards imparting various IT based training programems on IT and now the scope has elaborated to enable them to handle their subjects using ICT as a tool", IT@School sources said.

The project has also prepared interactive multi-media CDs, Handbooks and Training modules for ICT, as well as textbooks for IT in standard five to ten.

Apart from this, IT @ School is the nodal agency for e-governance activities in General Education Department and had implemented several e-governance programmes like single window system for plus-one admission and computerisation of noon meal records.