Digitisation & Empathy

Visited Jawahar Navadaya Vidyalaya in Titabor, 15 km from Jorhat along with Krishna last week. His children twins, are very bright kids, in class 5 in a state government school. I thought they should move to Navodaya, a beautiful initiative of the government, a school for children of interior India and low income parents. Krishna’s daily income depends on the weather btw!!

Met the Vice Principal and told her why we were there, she was very polite and pleasant, enquired regarding admission to 6th std coming year.
She later said applications were closed for 6th std on 31st August, we were in September already. I asked if there was any way of applying. She said not possible since it’s all online from central office and it’s closed.
Krishna looked disappointed.
I felt bad too.
There was no way. 

There used to be ways earlier I thought though how right they were, a different matter but for right people ways were maybe!

While driving back and talking to Kartik, I said Digitisation has no Empathy.

Can this be addressed by the comfortables in the nu tech environment in which Krishnas and Kamalas live in too and wish to be part of !!

Ravishankar 30/09/2023