SCHEME FOR COMPUTER LITERACY EXCELLENCE AWARDS FOR SCHOOLS-2007

 
 

The Department of Information Technology ( DIT ), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India, in the year 2002 has instituted an Award Scheme for Excellence in Computer Literacy and Information Technology in Schools at State and National Level to create IT awareness among schools and to encourage Computer Literacy among students in early stage of schooling.

ELIGIBILITY

  • All recognized schools in , Government or Private, teaching Computers and Information Technology in their schools are eligible to compete for the award. The qualifying criteria will be based on the performance of the school and the distribution of marks is as follows:
    1. General Information: No Marks;
    2. ICT Infrastructure: 20 marks;
    3. ICT usage practices: 30 marks;
    4. Curricula & content development: 10 marks;
    5. ICT based Teacher Training, Classroom Transaction and Student Learning: 25 marks
    6. ICT Innovation and community work: 10 marks;
    7. Awards and recognition achieved by the school during 2005-2006 & 2006-2007: 5 marks;
  • Winners of computer literacy excellence awards in last 3 years are not allowed to participate in CLEAS-2007.

EVALUATION

The evaluation of the nominations for State level Excellence Awards will be carried out by the respective States/UTs on a scale of 1 to 100 as per the marks distribution given in proforma itself. The evaluation for National level awards will be carried out by DIT by normalisation of the evaluation forwarded by the State/UTs. The criteria for giving marks is clearly given in the proforma to be filled up by the schools.

PROCEDURE FOR NOMINATION AND AWARDS SCHEME

The applications are to be made by the participating schools in prescribed proforma and submitted to the Secretary IT / Commissioner IT in their respective States / UTs by the last date. These will then be evaluated at State level / UT level and only one winning nomination will be forwarded to the Department of IT, Ministry of Communications & IT for selection of national level winners as per following awards scheme.

  1. State Awards : This award will be given to one School each under Category A as well as Category B in each State/UT on the recommendations of Secretary(IT) of respective States/UTs. Each schools will be given a Trophy & Cash Award of Rs.1.50 lakhs.
  2. National Awards : These awards will be given to top 3 schools in each of the following two categories, respectively.

Category-A:        Private/ Govt. Aided Schools

                                - 1st Prize : Rs. 7.00 lakhs

                                - 2nd Prize: Rs. 5.00 lakhs

                                - 3rd Prize : Rs. 3.00 lakhs

 

Category-B:        Govt. Schools

                                - 1st Prize : Rs. 7.00 lakhs

                                - 2nd Prize: Rs. 5.00 lakhs

                                - 3rd Prize : Rs. 3.00 lakhs

All India Winner Award : One best School from amongst all the State/UT/National Award Winners from the combined list of Category A' & B' schools will be selected as the All India Winner of the Computer Literacy Excellence Awards for Schools-2005. The school will be given shield & cash award of Rs.10 lakhs.


PRESENTATION OF AWARD

The Awards will be formally presented to the award winning schools at an "Award Presentation Function" organized by the Department of Information Technology.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Last Date for submission of proforma by schools to the Principal Informatics Officer within the month of December, 2007


For further details please contact :

Pu Lalthlamuana

Principal Informatics Officer

Information & Communication Technology

Secretariat Block-A, Top Floor

Aizawl, Mizoram

Phone: (0389)2310888/ 2319637

Fax: (0389)2319632