Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government will provide free wi-fi and 1GB data for students of technical institutions, colleges and universities, informed the Higher Education Minister Rohit Pujari on Thursday.
While presenting the details of the targets and achievements of Higher Education Department in the last four years, the Minister said the all the state public universities are wi-fi enabled. The Electronics and Information Technology department is in the job to provide free 1 GB data to all the students, he said.
The Minister also said that the state scholarship portal is operational since 2020-21 wherein 6 related departments have on-boarded. An Advisor has been appointed for Higher Education Department scholarship scheme.
Education loan is being provided to the students by commercial banks with 1% interest since 2016-17 and Government is bearing the rest of the interest, he added.