ROTARY
TIES UP WITH CONNECT FOR CYBER SAFETY OF CHILDREN
National Tele24 news
Vinay Kumar
Chandigarh
Rotary Club of
Chandigarh and Connect Broadband have tied up to conduct cyber-safety programme
for the parents and school children. This was announced yesterday at a workshop
organized for parents at Rotary House here today. Rotary Club Chandigarh’s
president A.P. Singh said that with the growing penetration of mobile phones,
ipads, laptops and computers in people’s homes, children are getting exposed to
internet content which poses grave threat to the children. He informed that
Rotary shall introduce Connect’s school initiative, NetChamps, in more schools
in the tricity including the government schools, and its 12 Interact schools in
Chandigarh, under its‘Saksham’ programme. Dr. Shilpa, a noted
psychologist lamented the growing trend amongst young mother to handover mobile
phone to their infants in order to keep them calm make them eat their food. This
unattended access to internet content is a dangerous trend that could harm the
children, she said. Connect Broadband has sensitized over 10,000 children under
their NetChamps programme in various schools in Punjab and Chandigarh, which
receives tremendous participation from teachers and children, and has also
received international recognition for this initiative.
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