The State government of Andhra Pradesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with education technology major BYJU’s to impart quality education to government school students.
The government would provide tablets to approximately 4.7 lakh class VIII students at an estimated cost of Rs 500 crore for accessing the content formulated by the ed-tech company.
The CM said that since the MoU has been signed this year, BYJU’s content would be incorporated in bilingual text books for students of classes IV to X from next year as the text books for this year have already been printed.
He explained that tablets would be provided to guide the students, currently studying class VIII, who will appear for CBSE class X exam in 2025.