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The collection includes over 300 palm-leaf manuscripts and about 7,000 ancient texts.
In total, 173 textbooks have been published in various languages for these classes and students can download the e-books in Malayalam, English, Tamil and Kannada mediums.
With an online crowdfunding campaign that was launched on June 12, the students have raised over Rs 4 lakh and donated over 40 Tablets to students.
Though the project was sown a few years ago, it was, in fact, the lockdown, imposed in the aftermath of the COVID outbreak which saw schools shut for months, that accelerated its successful integration in the state in the span of a few months.
In the education arena too, students who had access to computers and broadband internet could access classes and resources while the others were left behind. To bridge this digital divide, the Group of Technology Companies (GTech), a collective of IT companies in Kerala, came up with the idea of donating used laptops to students.
QR codes for additional reading have been included in textbooks for all subjects. Class 9 Biology textbook has codes that take students to videos with science experiments.
He also sought the help of experts to suggest new ways to make learning easier and interesting for schoolchildren.