End digital apartheid, give devices to EWS students: Delhi HC to schools

The court ordered that a three-member committee be set up within a week to identify standard gadgets and Internet packages.

The Delhi High Court ruled on Friday that any intra-class gap between fees-paying students and those belonging to economically weaker sections (EWS) or disadvantaged groups (DG) amounts to discrimination, and ordered private schools and government schools like Kendriya Vidyalayas in the Capital to provide free gadgets as well as Internet packages to the latter to end “digital apartheid”.

The verdict would mainly apply to schools conducting online classes via the Synchronous Face-to-Face Real Time medium…