Former president of Asom Sahitya Sabha Lakhinandan Bora releases the book on Internet at the Guwahati Press Club on Wednesday. Picture by UB Photos

Dec. 17: A book on Internet written in Assamese by Mani Kankan Baruah was released by former Asam Sahitya Sabha president Lakhinandan Bora at the Guwahati Press Club today.

The book, Buniyadi Internet, will help students to know about Internet in the local language and encourage others to join the Net-savvy club.

Releasing the book, Bora said Internet had revolutionised life and today almost everybody was learning it.

“The book, being in the local language, will be a boon to many who do not know English,” Bora said.

The book is in colour and has been written in a lucid language. It gives an introduction to Internet and its different applications. The practical working of Internet are explained with the help of diagrams.

“One cannot ignore the importance of Internet in today’s situation and youths of Assam should join the information technology race,” he added.

The Internet attraction has led many youths to open cybercafes, a trend which is increasing by the day.

Bora said with every state surging ahead in information technology, there should be no reason why Assam should remain backward.

“Books like these should be popularised at different fora to help in spreading knowledge on Internet,” he said.

The Assam government has provided community information centres in all the development blocks of the state which is attracting many youths to use Internet for getting information on any subject in the world today.

The state government will launch a Rs 37-crore project to enable students of 200 government higher secondary schools to learn multimedia-based computer programmes, free of cost.

It is also all set to introduce free computer courses in 200 select schools from the current financial year under the “Rajiv Gandhi computer literacy programme in schools of Assam”.

The Rs 37-crore project envisages computer literacy among students of Class V to Class XII to enable them to choose a successful career in the booming information technology sector.

The first major IT initiative of the Congress government will cover all the districts.

The director of software technology parks of India, Guwahati, P.K. Das said young software professionals like Baruah are showing the light to a younger generation on opportunities in the information technology sector.