2 MCO officers, 5 jawans awarded SWIFT certificates

KT NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, Feb 18: A group of seven personnel comprising one officer, one junior commissioned officer and five jawans of Movement Control Office (MCO) Jammu Tawi who crossed the barrier of 'Digital Divide' were awarded SWIFT (Short Word Programme in Information Technology) certificates of NIIT by Brigadier AC Soneja, Commander of a sub area.

'Digital Divide' has been described by business analysts and IT experts as the knowledge gap between the rich, who have access to the internet and the poor who do not.

The Digital Divide also exists between the educated and the uneducated, between economic classes, and, globally, between the more and less industrially developed nations.

In this case, it was a gap between computer literate and computer illiterate, which these jawans bridged by taking out time from their otherwise busy schedule and undergoing this course.

They underwent a capsule in which they learnt the usage of MS Office and the internet.

What is more heartening is that by undertaking this course, not only have these jawans acqired IT knowledge for themselves but have also made it possible for seven underprivileged students from SOS village Channi Rama to become computer literate as part of the NIITs "world computer literacy mission' which was launched by State Governor SK Sinha on November 27, 2003.