The R.J. Junior College. Picture by Biju Boro

May 9: A city-based educational trust will offer free computer education to students from the financially weak strata of society.

Anuradha Borah, director of the R.J. Educational Trust, said they have decided to introduce free computer education for those students whose parents cannot afford to bear the cost of such courses. The trust runs the R.J. Junior College, which is affiliated to the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council.

The junior college, established in 2000, has a very good success rate of around 100 per cent in humanities and over 90 per cent in the science stream at the higher secondary level, Borah added. Former chief secretary of the state H.. Das and Maj Gen. (retd) P. Das figure in its advisory council.

“The motto of our trust is ‘Service before Self’, and since we are running an educational trust, we have taken up the free computer education programme as part of our social obligations,” Borah said.

She said the free computer training would be provided at the R.J. Computer Centre under the educational trust. The computer centre offers short-term certificate courses at nominal charges.

“As this programme is set to start shortly, we have asked the interested students to contact the trust authorities and get themselves enrolled,” she added. Though the number of students to be enrolled in the course has not been fixed, the trust intends to enlist as much as possible.

The centre offers courses on computer basics, computer accessories and peripherals, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, PhotoShop, tally, Internet technology, programming in c language and so on.

“The objective of our programme is to prepare the students to face the world with confidence and dignity. The students need to be equipped with a much broader framework of knowledge than solely academic one,” she said.

“The aim of the R.J. Educational Trust is to offer the students of the region quality education on par with the best available in the country. The students from the Northeast are in no way less talented than their counterparts in the rest of the country. Our objective is to help them explore their talents and shine in different fields,” she said.